The notes, drafts and plans you open Google Docs for — in an editor where every doc stays a portable .md file on your machine, not their servers. Offline, free, no account. The cloud is there only when you choose to share.
Write notes, draft documents, keep plans. It formats as you type — no **symbols** to learn — and saves a clean file you can open in any other editor tomorrow.
A blank page that just works — headings, lists, quotes, tables, all formatted as you type.
Checklists, tables with aligned columns, code blocks with highlighting — kept intact in plain .md.
Saved to ~/Documents/Pinrom Docs (or anywhere you like). No browser tab, no sign-in.
Google Docs only works signed in, with every document on their servers — the cloud is the product and the margin. “Your files never leave your machine” is something they’d have to break their own model to offer.
Pinrom Docs starts from the other end: the file is yours, on your disk, as plain .md. Clouds shut down, change owners, change policies — a folder of plain files on your disk doesn’t.
Pinrom is desktop-first and single-player today. If these are what you need most, Google Docs is the better pick right now.
Many cursors, comments, suggestions — live. Pinrom’s real-time editing is coming as the cloud tier, but Google has it now.
Nothing to install, automatic sync across every device. Pinrom is a Mac app first, with Windows, Linux and iPad on the way.
Add-ons, templates and deep integration with the rest of Google Workspace. That breadth is real.
| Pinrom Docs | Google Docs | |
|---|---|---|
| Files stored on your machine | ✓ | ✕ always on their servers |
| Works fully offline | ✓ | ~ limited offline mode |
| No account needed to write | ✓ | ✕ sign-in required |
| Format as you type (WYSIWYG) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Saves as a portable .md you own | ✓ | ~ export only; native format is proprietary |
| Reads & writes Markdown natively | ✓ | ~ import/export, not the working format |
| Private share link | ✓ unguessable, revocable | ✓ |
| Recipient can read without an account | ✓ | ~ depends on link settings |
| Comments on shared docs | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-time co-editing | ~ coming | ✓ |
| Price | ✓ free | ✓ free tier |
✓ yes · ~ partial / coming · ✕ no. Sharing is live: reading a shared doc needs no account; commenting and editing sign in with a free one.
Paste from Google Docs and the structure comes with it. Google imports and exports .md natively, so a doc you write in Pinrom opens cleanly in Docs too. The exit is always open — that’s the point.
Yes — the whole desktop editor is free, for personal and work use. Paid only covers later cloud-scale collaboration, which a single writer never needs.
Yes. There's no per-seat catch on the editor; it's free at home and at work.
No. It round-trips clean .md — headings, tables, code blocks and nested lists survive, with nothing generated under the hood you didn't write.
Sharing is live today: create a free account, share a doc, and send a private link — the person you send it to reads and downloads it with no account at all. Commenting or editing on a shared doc needs a free account on both sides, because a comment has to belong to someone. Real-time co-editing is coming as the paid tier.
Only when you choose to share it. Until then it never leaves your machine.
Download the editor and open your first .md — no account, no upload, nothing to leak.