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

https://www.versowriter.app
35•tammis08•2h ago

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jonplackett•2h ago
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?

helloplanets•2h ago
From the page:

> Pages is a lot of app. TextEdit tops out at bold and italic. Others are too single-minded.

> So I built my own. It does what I need, nothing I don’t, and it never asks me to log in.

rubslopes•2h ago
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.
wky•2h ago
From the comparison image it looks like the goal is functional compatibility, not render compatibility. The table borders change and the layout changes.
rhubarbtree•1h ago
If it’s vibe coded, it’ll use one of the OSS libraries for importing word, so the answer is no it isn’t compatible and the website is misleading slop.
cykros•2h ago
So it's like OpenOffice or LibreOffice or Abiword but it costs money?
kubb•2h ago
And it's native cocoa I guess.
bigyabai•1h ago
It costs money and is vibe coded. The worst of both worlds!
phyzix5761•2h ago
Source?
rambambram•2h ago
I stick with Pluma and gedit on Linux, but the landing page is clear and goodlooking!
ilumanty•2h ago
The vibe coded website suggests that this is a vibe coded tool. Is it though?
paul7986•1h ago
Indeed there's probably thousands of slop apps out there now with millions to follow. In time making pricing and profit go to zero.
00deadbeef•1h ago
One good thing to come of vibecoding is native apps are less effort, so hopefully there will be more alternatives to Electron crap apps.
fantasizr•1h ago
there's so many apps, I'm sorta where murakami was to filter out novels he'd consider reading. A good app needs to be validated through the sands of time before I consider replacing something that already exists on my machine (and was probably free).
mariopt•1h ago
Yep, the website looks vibecoded.

Quite suprised this managed to be on HN first page with a fresh account.

etchalon•2h ago
I mean Pages is free.
Reubend•2h ago
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•1h ago
I paid about 5€ for a Microsoft Office key.
sgt•1h ago
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•1h ago
"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".

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Why is this flagged?

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