Redline Pad for Desktop
Open documents directly from your own disk, .docx or PDF, tracked changes written back into the original document, and a comparison that runs with your network switched off. It keeps your settings and every comparison you have run, so it opens the way you left it.
A drawing of the desktop application: a schedule to a supply agreement opened from disk in two versions, compared side by side, with the redline in the third pane.
Features
The browser for a quick clause.
The desktop for the whole job.
| In the browser | On the desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting text in | Paste it, or type it | Two files opened from your disk — .docx or PDF — and neither is uploaded anywhere |
| Taking it away | Copy to the clipboard | A copy of the original with the changes tracked, written into the file you started from rather than rebuilt around it — or the clipboard |
| History | None. Nothing is kept, so nothing is left behind on a shared machine | A list of what you compared, on your machine and under your control |
| Settings | Back to their defaults every visit | Remembered |
| Where the text goes | Nowhere. It stays in your browser | Nowhere. It stays on your machine |
| Cost | Free | Paid, after a free trial |
The same comparison
The same redline you can try right now
The desktop version compares your text exactly the way the browser tool already does. Same marks in the same places, on your documents.
So you can judge it before you wait for anything. Paste in your least favourite clause and see what comes back. If the redline is not good enough for your work, the desktop version is not either — better to find that out in a minute than after you have paid.
Your documents never leave your machine. The only thing the app connects to is an update check, and you can switch that off.
Your files are read where they already sit, and no AI service is involved: the comparison is a program on your own machine, not a model your clause is sent away to. It is a warranty in the licence rather than a claim on a website, and your IT team can verify it in an afternoon with a packet capture.
The waiting list
Sign up for updates
Leave your email and we will tell you when there is something to install. Nothing else.
The other three fields are optional. They help us decide what to build first.
Would rather not use a form? Write to support@redlinepad.com with “desktop” in it — same list, same rules.
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