Unleash the power ofHandwriting
at the efficiency of
AI.
Mark up a Word document with your Apple Pencil, exactly like paper. Caret suggests an edit for each mark, you approve them, and it writes them into a copy of the file.
Why paper?
Paper is still the best editor.
Editors, lawyers, teachers: the people who edit for a living still print documents and mark them up by hand. Not out of habit. You genuinely catch more errors on paper, it's tactile, studies show handwriting improves memory and cognition, and every word stays your call. Real editing, not prompting an AI to rewrite for you.
But for people who edit by hand, there has never been a good way to get those marks back into the digital file:
The outdated process
Caret
Same marks. On your iPad.
Strike a word, caret in a new one, dot in a period. The exact marks you'd make with a red pen. Caret reads them and writes the edits into a copy of your .docx, after you approve each one.
No printing. No sitting back down to retype. Mark it up, tap Convert, approve the changes, export the file.
No retyping your marks
Mark, Convert, review each change, export
Features
Everything paper does.
None of what it costs you.
Mark up like paper
Strike a word out, caret in a new word, or cross a word out and write its replacement. The shorthand you already use on a printout.
You approve every change
Tap Convert and Caret reads your marks, usually in under a minute. Each suggestion waits for your Accept, and anything it can't read clearly is flagged instead of guessed.
Real .docx out
A standard .docx you can keep editing, not a proprietary export or a picture of your page.
Only your marks change
Caret edits only the words you marked and leaves the rest of the file alone. It does not edit headers, footers or footnotes, and it does not create tracked changes.
Original untouched
Every accepted edit lands in a fresh copy. You cannot lose work you did not approve.
Made for essays and drafts
Works with .docx files and PDFs that contain real text. Scanned PDFs, .doc and .pages files aren't supported yet.
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