Quire
Oil painting of a tall, gray room in Rome. Wooden shutters stand open above a window onto green hills and cypress trees. On the left, a writing desk with books and papers; on the right, a young man in a brown coat tunes a guitar.

Edit the .docx.
Leave the rest untouched.

A fast, native Mac editor for the .docx someone sent you. Quire saves only the parts you changed.

macOS 15 or later

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The Quire window in Page view with basic.docx open. A white page shows the heading Quarterly letter, a line mixing bold, italic, underline, strike, superscript and subscript, a line in cobalt Georgia with a highlighted word, a centered line, an indented line, a second heading, a quote and a closing line. The title bar reads 0 of 16 parts.

One word changed. One part rewritten.

These are the real files. Compared when this page was built.

before.docx after.docx

1 of 16 parts changed

  1. [Content_Types].xmlsame
  2. _rels/.relssame
  3. customXml/_rels/item1.xml.relssame
  4. customXml/item1.xmlsame
  5. customXml/itemProps1.xmlsame
  6. docProps/app.xmlsame
  7. docProps/core.xmlsame
  8. word/_rels/document.xml.relssame
  9. word/document.xml958a7cf6ddb1 → e9eb10bf7fbd
  10. word/fontTable.xmlsame
  11. word/numbering.xmlsame
  12. word/settings.xmlsame
  13. word/styles.xmlsame
  14. word/stylesWithEffects.xmlsame
  15. word/theme/theme1.xmlsame
  16. word/webSettings.xmlsame
word/document.xml
- <w:t>Quarterly letter</w:t>
+ <w:t>Quire letter</w:t>

Ready to type 256 ms after launch. A 50-page document paints in 168 ms, and keystrokes land in about 2 ms. The whole app is a 4.0 MB download.

$19, once. Free to try. When the trial ends, Quire still opens your files, read-only.

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Version 1.0.0 · macOS 15 or later