No scrolling
True pagination user interface.
WHY WRITORO IS DIFFERENT
One writing environment. Six major differentiators.
As far as we know, Writoro is the only mainstream writing and publishing application offering all of these features together.
- True page-based (non-scrolling) editing
- Built-in syntax-preserving tense conversion
- Custom caret designed for paged text
- Offline-first / privacy-respecting architecture
- Professional typesetting output with editable source
- Context-aware, navigable references
Choose a feature at left to explore it in more detail.
MAIN DIFFERENTIATOR
True Pagination
Write the way a finished book is read: page by page, rather than as one continuous scrolling document.
- Say goodbye to endless scrolling.
- Turn pages with a mouse or key click.
- Work in a two-pane or single-page view.
- Switch to scroll mode if you prefer it.
Why it matters
Most word processors use an infinite scrolling canvas with page breaks layered on top. This often leads to visual and cognitive friction: page boundaries rarely align with the screen, so you end up viewing fragments of multiple pages at once, and it’s easy to lose your sense of position in the document.
Writoro takes a different approach. It uses true page-based editing: your work is presented as a sequence of discrete, navigable pages, laid out in a beautifully simple single or double page interface. This keeps the layout visually coherent and makes it much easier to stay oriented, move around, and return to where you were. It simulates your final printed book-output faithfully.
View pagination demo
Best viewed on desktop or tablet.
MAIN DIFFERENTIATOR
One-Click Book Publishing
Writoro takes you from a finished manuscript to a professionally typeset, print-ready book without requiring you to become a desktop-publishing specialist.
- Output directly to a print-ready PDF.
- Front matter is generated and arranged automatically.
- Book dimensions, margins and gutter are handled automatically.
- Table of contents and page numbering are created automatically.
- The HTML → LaTeX → PDF publishing flow runs without manual intervention.
- The raw LaTeX file is also supplied for further work with an editor or designer.
From manuscript to book
Once your manuscript is ready, Writoro handles the book-production details that normally require a separate publishing workflow. Front matter, page size, margins and gutter, table of contents and page numbering are all prepared automatically, so the user can move from writing and formatting to final book output with minimal intervention.
The resulting PDF is intended for printing or publishing, while the accompanying LaTeX file remains available if an editor or graphics designer needs to make specialist adjustments.
View book publishing demo
Best viewed on desktop or tablet.
MAIN DIFFERENTIATOR
Privacy by Default
Your writing remains local by default. Writoro does not require your manuscript to live in somebody else's cloud before you can work on it.
- Write and edit without a permanent internet connection.
- Keep primary document storage on your own computer.
- Use backups or cloud services when you choose to.
- Online services are optional additions rather than the foundation of the editor.
Offline first
Writoro's core editing model is local. That gives authors a straightforward separation between the writing environment and optional online services.
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MAIN DIFFERENTIATOR
Past ↔ Present Tense Conversion
Writoro includes a built-in tense-changing system designed for fiction and essay writers. You can convert selected passages or entire documents between past and present tense instantly, while preserving your original wording, syntax, and meaning — unlike AI-based rewriting tools that often change phrasing or voice.
- Deterministic tense conversion — not an AI rewrite.
- Preserves syntax and wording.
- Works on arbitrary selections, including selections within or across paragraph elements.
- Works on the whole document.
- Fast enough for novel-length text locally.
- Saves the converted tense with the file.
- Reversible and repeatable.
- Integrated directly into the word processor rather than being an external tool.
Change tense without changing your voice
The conversion operates on the text you have written rather than generating a rewritten version of it. That makes it useful when you want to compare past- and present-tense versions while retaining the author's phrasing and structure.
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MAIN DIFFERENTIATOR
Links and Bookmarks
For academic and long-form writers, Writoro offers a complete, interactive cross-referencing system which is fully navigable. From a citation you can cycle through all of its referring links in the document, making it easy to review how a source is used across your work.
What makes Writoro genuinely different
Normal word processors
- Allow many links → one bookmark.
- But bookmarks are dead ends.
- There is no way to see all places that reference a citation.
- There is no way to navigate between those references.
- There is no way to understand the context field of a reference.
Writoro
- Allows many links → one bookmark.
- Allows the bookmark → cycle back through all referring links.
- Provides last-visited return.
- Provides next / previous reference navigation.
- Preserves these cross-referenced links in the exported PDF, so readers can navigate references interactively on screen.
Navigate complex manuscripts
For long works, internal links can connect notes, references, recurring material and distant sections without forcing the author to search manually each time.
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MAIN DIFFERENTIATOR
Custom Caret Designed for Paged Text
Writoro includes its own configurable caret rather than relying only on the browser's standard one-pixel insertion point.
- Choose between the standard browser caret and Writoro's wider custom caret.
- Designed to remain easy to locate while working in a paged editing environment.
- Choose whether the caret blinks or remains steady.
- Use different caret colours in normal and dark display modes.
Made for page-based writing
The custom caret is part of Writoro's page-oriented editing model: a small interface detail intended to make the current insertion point easier to follow while composing and revising across discrete pages.
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More Writoro Features
As well as the major differentiators shown at left, Writoro presents an exhaustive set of tools expected of a capable authoring environment.
Text & page formatting
Control line, paragraph, word and letter spacing, column dimensions, drop caps, block quotes, hanging indents, kerning and font darkening.
Search
Search by multiple criteria, including multiple words or phrases and across multiple files.
File handling
Open and write a wide range of formats including text, HTML, DOCX, ODT, XML, RTF, PDF, EPUB, Markdown and LaTeX.
Voice input
Use voice input as part of a streamlined writing interface alongside keyboard and typewriter modes.
Spellchecking
Run spellchecking on demand, without persistent squiggly lines interrupting the writing process.
Sidenotes & footnotes
Keep sidenotes positioned beside their links on screen and carry sidenotes and footnotes through to PDF output.
Lists
Create multiple list types and reorder, copy, paste or split items.
Images
Insert images from disk or web, then resize, move, wrap, cut, copy and paste them.
Custom caret
Choose the standard browser caret or a wider custom caret, with configurable blink and colour behaviour.
Statistics
View counts for characters, words, lines, sentences, paragraphs, pages and selections.
Smart quotes
Support dialogue and quoted strings, including nested quotation marks.
Help where you need it
Access contextual help directly from menu items.
Reverse Selection
Select any text and the surrounding text becomes invisible. Ideal for focusing on a small section of your text.
File Security
Automatic backup to local disk with full versioning supported. Backup to cloud is optional, in line with Writoro's advanced offline privacy model. File syncing across all your devices is user configurable.
Dead Simple User Interface
Every function is available from standard menus. Visual icons are simple and intuitive. Shortcuts are available for all common actions.
Minimalist View
Menus and other navigational aids can be toggled on or off, enabling a completely minimalist view of the text whenever you want it.
Page Source View
Page source can be viewed separately from the rendered file.
Read Only Mode
Keyboard input is disabled in this mode. Ideal for a concentrated reading of the text.
Colors
Font, background and highlighting colors are fully configurable. Custom colors are easily created, and dark mode is supported.
Printing
Normal printing is available from the browser using the standard Ctrl-P shortcut. Advanced printing is available through the Print PDF item on the File menu.
Other
Everything you'd expect of a modern writing app: undo/redo, copy/cut/paste, and a comprehensive set of text-formatting aids.
Standard Web Technologies
Files are written and saved in HTML with embedded CSS styling, making them ideal for dropping into a personal website or blog. Writoro is a genuine WYSIWYP — what you see is what you print — editor.
System Updates
Writoro keeps your system in sync with the master version on its server. Whenever there is a bug fix or improvement, the update is tested by quality control and then pushed to users automatically in the background. If you are offline, the update takes place when you next connect to the internet.
So, why no scrolling?
All word processors scroll, right?
They do. But consider this. Scrolling is not how you read a book, and it needn't be the way you write one either.
Other word processors don't do pagination because pagination is difficult.
Writoro presents a beautifully simple two-page interface, which can be switched to a single page with a click — or, if you insist, to a scrolling interface as well. It simulates your final printed book-output faithfully.
So why wait?
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— what you see is what you print —