storytold/wordcraft
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust
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WordCraft Writing and document design; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word, rebuilt in pure Rust. A fast, open-source word processor with the Word workflow you already know: the ribbon, styles, tables, track changes, references and mail merge. It reads and writes .docx, runs natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD, and in the browser via WebAssembly. By the ArtCraft team. WordCraft on getartcraft.com · ArtCraft · All Crafting Apps The Open Studio Handbook, WordCraft's built-in sample: the ribbon, live Styles gallery, rulers and the Navigation pane. A tour · Why WordCraft · What works today · Quick start · For agents · Architecture · Roadmap · Downloads · The Crafting Apps · License and credits Every screenshot below is WordCraft itself, rendered offscreen by its own UI test harness (cargo run -p wordcraft-ui-egui --example uishot). Review. Track changes, comment balloons in the margin, accept and reject, spelling and grammar…
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- A tour
- Why WordCraft
- What works today
- Quick start
- For agents: CLI and MCP
- Architecture
- Roadmap
- Downloads
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
- FreeBSD
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What this repository does
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust
Repository facts
- Owner
- storytold
- Primary language
- Rust
- Stars
- 480
- Forks
- 175
- Open issues + pull requests
- 15
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-07T08:34:24.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-08T02:08:10.000Z
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