Free apps
Your documents stay on your device
Three free apps, built with our AWA libraries and our framework. They run entirely in your browser: your files are sent nowhere. Install them as an app: after a first visit, they work offline. The steps for your browser are in each app's Help.
Open AWA Viewer ↗ Open AWA Notepad ↗ Open AWA Writer (beta) ↗They do what they say, and nothing more
A viewer that shows your documents, a notepad that stays a notepad. Our software does what it says and nothing more: simple, safe and respectful of your privacy.
- Nothing leaves the page. Each app's security policy allows connections to its own site only: your browser forbids it to send anything anywhere else. Your files stay on your device.
- No telemetry, no audience tracking, no account. No usage data is collected, and there is nothing to sign up for.
- No hidden feature, no bolted-on AI. They do what this page describes. The code of AWA Viewer and AWA Notepad is public, AWA Writer's will be after the beta: anyone can check what they do.
- Our servers do not record our visitors' IP addresses; this is checked at every audit of our production.
AWA Viewer — open and read a document
Open a document and read it in your browser: PDF, Word (DOCX), Excel (XLSX), PowerPoint (PPTX), OpenDocument (ODT, ODS, ODP), Markdown and text.
- Nothing is uploaded. The document is read on your device.
- Installs and works offline. Once installed, the app opens your documents from your system.
- Says what it leaves out. For each document, AWA Viewer lists what the view does not show.
Limits: AWA Viewer displays documents; it does not edit them. Office 97-2003 formats (DOC, XLS, PPT) are recognised, not displayed.
Open AWA Viewer ↗AWA Notepad — write plain text
A plain-text editor in the browser, as simple as a notepad should be.
- Open, save, save as. In Chrome and Edge on a computer, saving goes back to the opened file; in Firefox, Safari and on phones, AWA Notepad downloads a copy and tells you so.
- Encodings and line endings: UTF-8, UTF-16 and Windows-1252; CRLF, LF and CR. Detected on open, kept, changeable.
- Find and replace, go to line, word wrap, text size.
- Nothing is uploaded; installs and works offline.
Limits: plain text only. Binary files and files over 16 MiB are refused, not mangled.
Open AWA Notepad ↗AWA Writer (beta) — write and edit a document
A word processor in the browser: it opens, edits and saves your DOCX and ODT documents, laid out like the original.
- Open, edit, save Word (DOCX) and OpenDocument (ODT) documents.
- Pages like the original: the text is laid out on sheets, with headers, footers and page numbers.
- Nothing is uploaded; installs and works offline. Like AWA Viewer and AWA Notepad, your documents stay on your device.
AWA Writer is a beta: it may still change a document in ways you do not expect. Keep a copy of the documents that matter. Your feedback is welcome, at sales@awacloud.com.
Open AWA Writer ↗Free, source code published
AWA Viewer and AWA Notepad are free to use. Their source code is published under AGPL-3.0-only in our public GitHub repository, github.com/awacloud/awa: apps/services/viewer and apps/services/notepad. AWA Writer, free as well, is not part of it yet: its source code will be published after the beta.
The same building blocks, in your applications
AWA Viewer is built on the PDF, Office, OpenDocument and Markdown libraries that AWA Convert brings together. Your teams can build the same thing into their own applications, without documents leaving your premises.
- Building AWA Viewer into a proprietary application is included in the AWA Convert licence, without the AGPL's source-code obligations.
- AWA Notepad: commercial licence on request, at sales@awacloud.com.