Thebenefitsof paper.TheeaseofCaret.
All the benefits of marking up paper with your Apple Pencil, with none of the friction of retyping every red-pen edit. Caret reads your marks and applies them automatically.
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"The natural feel of paper, at the efficiency of digital."
Paper
Paper is still the best editor.
You print it out, mark it up with a red pen. Every awkward phrase struck through, every missing word caret-inserted, every period dotted in. It feels natural. It is the best way to edit.
Caret
Same marks. On your iPad.
Caret reads every Apple Pencil mark on your iPad screen: the strikes, carets, circles, periods. It applies them directly into your .docx.
Original formatting stays intact. You never touch the keyboard. The document is done the moment you cap your pen.
Zero re-typing. Ever.
Marks applied automatically in seconds
Any document
Your documents,
marked and done.
Theses, contracts, articles, scripts. If it's a .docx, Caret handles it. Every mark you make in red gets applied exactly where you intended.
.docx No special template neededHow it works
Foursteps. Zerotyping.
From handwritten marks to a clean Word document, in seconds.
Mark it up
Open any Word document in Caret on your iPad. Pick up your Apple Pencil and mark it up exactly as you would on paper: red strikes, caret insertions, circled words, period dots.
Caret reads your marks
The moment you lift your Pencil, Caret's AI scans the red ink. It recognizes strikes as deletions, carets as insertions, circles as emphasis markers, and dots as punctuation. Just like a professional copy editor.
Review the changes
Caret shows you a clean summary of every edit it detected: what will be deleted, what will be inserted. Approve all at once or tweak individual changes before applying.
chapter-draft.docx
All 3 edits applied
Export your clean .docx
Caret writes every change back into the original Word file. Formatting, styles, track changes: all intact. Share it, email it, open it in Word. It's just a normal .docx, done.
AI recognition
The AI reads your marks.
Every symbol a professional copy editor uses, Caret understands them all. In real time.
Strikethrough
Draw a line through any word or phrase to delete it instantly.
Transforms to
Caret insert
Place a caret and write above it to insert text at that point.
Transforms to
Circle / emphasis
Circle a word to flag it for review or emphasis.
Transforms to
Period dot
A firm dot at sentence end adds the missing period.
Transforms to
Features
Everythingyouneed.
Nothingyoudon't.
Keeps your formatting
Styles, fonts, headers, tracked changes: every detail survives untouched. Your document looks exactly as you intended, every time.
Real .docx output
Export a standard Word file. Open it in Word, Google Docs, Pages. It just works.
Instant recognition
Marks are detected the moment you lift the Pencil. No tap, no button.
Works on any .docx
Contracts, manuscripts, essays, reports, scripts. If Word opens it, Caret marks it. No template lock-in.
Original never touched
Edits go into a new copy. Your source file stays exactly as it was, always safe and intact.
Early access feedback
Whypenpeopleloveit.
“I've been editing manuscripts by hand for twenty years. Caret is the first tool that actually gets what I'm doing when I mark up a page.”
Sarah M.
Senior Book Editor
“Contract review used to mean printing, marking, retyping. Now I mark up the iPad screen and hand back a clean docx in minutes.”
James K.
Corporate Lawyer
“As a grad student with hundreds of pages to annotate, this is the tool I didn't know I desperately needed. The AI understands caret inserts perfectly.”
Priya R.
PhD Candidate, Literature
“My editors send me marked-up PDFs. Now I just pull them into Caret and the changes apply themselves. Absolutely wild.”
Tom W.
Freelance Journalist
Stopretypingyouredits.
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