Golem Docs

Every kind of document, one editor, right in your browser.

Open a Word file, a PDF, a Markdown note, or a web page and just start editing, in an editor that feels like Word 2003 and looks the way you want. Switch a document from one shape to another without losing what you wrote, and work on it with other people, live.

Start writing, it's free See what it does

No account. No install. Your documents stay in your browser until you choose to sign in.

Built to open everything.

Most editors are good at one format and awkward with the rest. Golem Docs treats them all as documents you can simply edit.

Change shape without losing anything

Convert To switches what a document is edited as, from Word to Markdown to a web page. Go back and your formatting comes back with it.

Convert formats →

Edit PDFs, not just mark them up

Change a page's text where it sits, move, add, or delete pictures and shapes, black out private details, rearrange pages, and fill in forms. Highlight, underline, and leave notes too.

Everything you can do with a PDF →

Edit pictures too

Crop, resize, and correct PNG, JPEG, and WebP images. Draw arrows, text, and numbered markers on a screenshot, and pixelate what you don't want seen.

Editing pictures →

Real documents, real layout

Pages are laid out like Word lays them out, with tables, columns, comments, and math equations written in LaTeX. What you see is how it prints.

Word documents →

Work together, live

Sign in, then Share gives you a link. Everyone who opens it edits the same document and sees changes as they happen, with each person's cursor. Or share with specific people. Editing and downloading never need an account.

How sharing works →

Saves itself

There is no Save button. Every change is kept a moment after you make it, safe in your browser even when you are offline.

Writing and saving →

The Word you remember

Menus and toolbars in the Word 2003 style, and dialogs to match: Paragraph, Find and Replace, and Spelling and Grammar all work the way you learned them. No ribbon to hunt through.

The Word 2003 feel →

Make it yours

Pick a color scheme: Golem, or Office 2003's Silver, Blue, Olive Green, or Grayscale. Each has a dark mode, you can arrange the toolbars, and the whole app is translated into 11 languages.

Themes and languages →

Handles huge files

Open a 50 MB log file, then scroll, search, filter, and copy without your browser freezing.

Large text files →

If you can name it, you can probably open it.

Drop a file onto the window, or choose Open. Convert it to another format, or download a file for someone else. Older .doc files save as .docx, and GIF, BMP, and SVG pictures as PNG. See what each conversion keeps.

  • Word (.docx)
  • Word 97–2003 (.doc)
  • OpenDocument
  • Rich Text
  • PDF
  • HTML
  • EPUB
  • Web Archive (MHTML)
  • Email (.eml)
  • Markdown
  • LaTeX
  • AsciiDoc
  • reStructuredText
  • Org
  • MediaWiki
  • Textile
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • CSV
  • TSV
  • PNG
  • JPEG
  • WebP
  • GIF
  • BMP
  • SVG
  • Plain text

Up and running in a minute.

There is nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.

  1. Open a document

    Drop a file onto the window, or start a new blank one.

  2. Edit it, in any shape

    Type, format, mark up a PDF, or switch to Markdown with Convert To.

  3. Share or download

    Download a file for someone else, no account needed. Or sign in and send a link to edit together.

Sign in only when you want to.

Golem Docs works fully without an account. Signing in adds sync and sharing. Editing, converting, and downloading never need an account.

  • Signed outEdit, convert, and download as much as you like. Documents are saved in your browser and never sent to us.
  • Signed inYour documents follow you to any device, and you can share them. Sign in with Google, Microsoft, GitHub, or Apple.
  • Sharing needs an accountOnce you're signed in, anyone with a link can edit together with you, or you can invite specific people. Downloading a file is always free of sign-in.

Your documents are yours.

We wrote the privacy policy to be read. It is short, and it says what we collect and why.

  • No ads, no selling dataWe don't sell your data and we don't show ads.
  • No trackingNo analytics and no advertising trackers.
  • Your files, take them allEvery document is a real file that belongs to you. File ▸ Download All saves everything you have kept as one ZIP, any time, no account needed.
  • Read it yourselfPrivacy Policy · Terms of Service

Open a document and see.

It runs in your browser, so the fastest way to judge it is to use it.

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