Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription

jonplackett

Hey thanks for sharing. This looks great. How do you see this positioned VS just using Pages? Why did you decide to make this instead? Also is there an iPhone version that syncs with it or is it Mac only?

rubslopes

If it's really fully compatible with docx files, I'm very interested in this. No matter the advances Apple makes with the M chips, Office apps are always slow to open. Not to mention the obligatory background services.

cykros

So it's like OpenOffice or LibreOffice or Abiword but it costs money?

rambambram

I stick with Pluma and gedit on Linux, but the landing page is clear and goodlooking!

ilumanty

The vibe coded website suggests that this is a vibe coded tool. Is it though?

etchalon

I mean Pages is free.

Reubend

I've never understood the appeal of minimal writing apps. They've got beautiful UIs, but I could theoretically do everything here on a normal writing app, couldn't I?

matricaria

I paid about 5€ for a Microsoft Office key.

sgt

Rather stick with Pages when it comes to that. Pages has certainly gone through some waves of where maybe some features were missing or something wasn't ideal, but 10 years later it's so fast and responsive, it makes any other Office suite behave like an old beat up horse. You kinda have to try out Pages and Keynote etc to really understand why they are superior. Maybe not in features, but the speed at which you can put things in, tweak things, move stuff around and so on. At least that's my personal opinion on this. I don't use these apps every day though, as I'm primarily a programmer.

egypturnash

"Word wants a subscription. Pages is a lot of app. TextEdit tops out at bold and italic." No it doesn't? format>font has bold, italic, underline, outline, super/subscript, and more? It used to have strikethru too, annoyingly now you have to open the fonts window and access it through a dropdown in there instead of a single hotkey. Notes still has a strikethru menu item but the ⌘k hotkey got stolen for "make hyperlink".

ksec

Why is this flagged?