WordCraft

Overview

WordCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word built in pure Rust. It is a native word processor with the familiar ribbon workflow, styles, tables, track changes, references and mail merge, and it reads and writes .docx.

Key Features

• Familiar ribbon interface with tabs, groups, keyboard shortcuts and a live Styles gallery.
• Reads and writes .docx natively, imports and exports .odt, .rtf, .html, .md and .txt, and exports PDF with selectable text.
• Cached paragraph layout and on-demand page rendering keep large documents responsive.
• Track changes, margin comment balloons, accept/reject review, document comparison, and offline spelling and grammar.
• References support including tables of contents, footnotes, citations and bibliographies in APA, MLA, Chicago and IEEE styles, indexes and captions.
• Command-driven automation through a command-line tool, JSON control channel and MCP server.

Use Cases

• Writing and editing .docx documents in a Word-like native application.
• Producing academic and business documents with citations, bibliographies, footnotes and tables of contents.
• Reviewing documents with track changes, comments and document comparison.
• Automating document inspection, conversion and editing through CLI and MCP workflows.

Getting Started

• Download a standalone build for macOS, Windows, Linux or Web, or use the ArtCraft Launcher.
• To build from source, install Rust 1.90 or newer, clone the repository, change into the wordcraft directory, and run cargo run --release -p wordcraft.

Deployment & Requirements

• Runs natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD, and in the browser via WebAssembly.
• Build from source requires Rust 1.90 or newer.
• Linux builds are available as Flatpak, AppImage, Debian package, RPM package and tarball.
• A web build is available to host yourself.

Before You Adopt

• License: Apache-2.0. Review its terms before using, modifying, or distributing the project.
• The project page lists WordCraft as in development.