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Write, scan and export — completely offline.

Wordpad Plus is a full word processor for your phone. Rich formatting, an OCR scanner, PDF export and read-aloud — all running on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is nothing to sign up for.

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A recipe document open in the Wordpad Plus editor, with a photo, headings and a numbered list
Wordpad Plus home screen showing saved pages, lists, journal, imports and recent documents
A journal entry being written in Wordpad Plus

A look inside

Built like a desktop editor, sized for a phone.

Real screens from the app — no mockups.

The Wordpad Plus editor with a formatting toolbar, an image and a numbered list
Full formatting toolbarHeadings, colour, alignment, lists, tables, images and OCR — one tap away.
A weekly planner document containing a formatted table
Real tables and templatesPlanners, reports and notes that keep their structure when you export.
A document being read aloud with the current sentence highlighted
Listen to any documentFollow along with the sentence highlighted as it is read.
A web article saved into Wordpad Plus as a clean, readable document
Save pages to read laterStrip the clutter from an article and keep it offline.

Features

Everything you need to write. Nothing you don’t.

One app instead of five, and none of it depends on a connection.

Rich text editing

Bold, italic, underline, colour, font size, alignment, indents, bullet and numbered lists, superscript and subscript.

OCR scanner

Photograph a page, a receipt or a whiteboard and turn it into text you can edit and search.

PDF export and import

Export any document to PDF in one tap, and bring PDF or DOCX files in to work on them.

Read aloud

Have a document read back to you at your own speed, with the current sentence highlighted.

Journal

Dated entries with a mood marker and a calmer writing surface, kept apart from your documents.

Lists and tasks

Checklists that track what is done and what is left, with completed items tucked out of the way.

Tables and templates

Start from a planner, report or meeting-notes template, and build real tables inside a document.

Edit on your computer

Open your documents in a browser on the same Wi-Fi and type on a full keyboard. Nothing leaves your network.

Save web pages

Share an article into Wordpad Plus and keep a clean, readable copy that works offline.

Writing

Formatting that survives the export.

Most phone note apps give you plain text and a bullet point. Wordpad Plus gives you the toolbar you would expect on a laptop — and the document still looks right when you send it as a PDF.

  • Headings, colour, alignment and indentation
  • Checklists, bullet and numbered lists
  • Images and tables placed inside the text
  • Undo and redo across the whole session
A recipe document in the Wordpad Plus editor with an image, headings and a numbered list

Listening

Hear your draft before anyone else does.

Reading your own writing aloud is the fastest way to catch a clumsy sentence. Wordpad Plus reads any document back to you, highlighting the sentence it is on so you can follow along and fix things as you go.

  • Adjustable speed and choice of voice
  • Sentence-by-sentence highlighting
  • Skip forward and back through a document
  • Works on saved articles and imports too
The listening view showing a document with the current sentence highlighted and playback controls

Organising

One place for documents, lists and journals.

Folders you name yourself, full-text search across everything, and a recycle bin for the file you deleted at midnight. Backup and restore are built in, so moving to a new phone does not mean losing your writing.

  • Custom folders, plus built-in Saved Pages, Lists, Journal and Imports
  • Search the contents of every document, not just titles
  • Recycle bin and manual backup or restore
  • PIN lock for documents you would rather keep private
The Wordpad Plus home screen with folders and a list of recent documents

On a bigger screen

Type on your computer without a cloud account.

Long documents deserve a real keyboard. Wordpad Plus can serve your documents to a browser on the same Wi-Fi, so you edit on your laptop while the files stay on your phone. No sync service in the middle, and nothing to sign in to.

  • Choose exactly which documents to share
  • Works with any browser on the same network
  • Stops the moment you close the session
The local web editor screen listing documents selected for sharing over Wi-Fi

Privacy

Your writing never leaves your phone.

Not a policy promise buried in a settings screen — the app simply has nowhere to send it. There is no server, no sync account and no analytics, so there is nothing to leak, sell or subpoena.

Read the privacy policy
  • No account, ever

    Install it and start typing. No sign-in wall, no email capture, no profile to create.

  • Zero data collected

    The Google Play data-safety section lists no data collected and none shared with third parties.

  • Works in aeroplane mode

    Editing, OCR, PDF export and read-aloud all run on the device, so a dead signal changes nothing.

  • Locked when you want it

    Put a PIN on individual documents so a borrowed phone does not become an open notebook.

Who it is for

Written for people who write in awkward places.

Students

Photograph a textbook page into editable notes, format an assignment properly, and hand it in as a PDF from your phone.

Writers and journalers

A quiet, dated page for daily entries, and a read-aloud pass to hear how a draft actually sounds.

Work in the field

Site reports, checklists and signed documents on a basement or roadside connection — which is to say, none at all.

Meetings and admin

Notes into a template, actions into a checklist, the whole thing exported and sent before you leave the room.

Why Wordpad Plus

The differences that actually matter.

Cloud editors are excellent when you have signal, a browser and an account. This is for the rest of the time.

Capability Wordpad Plus Typical cloud editor
Works with no connection Yes. Every feature Partly. Partial, after setup
Use it without an account Yes. No sign-in at all Partly. Usually required
Documents stay on your device Yes. Always Partly. Held on a provider’s servers
OCR scanning built in Yes. On device Partly. Often a separate app or an upload
Read aloud built in Yes. Any document Partly. Varies by app
Free to download Yes. Yes Partly. Free tier, paid storage

“Typical cloud editor” describes the common pattern of phone document apps that sync to an online account. Individual apps vary.

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Everything above, free, in about a minute.

Download Wordpad Plus, open it, and start typing. There is no account step, and nothing you write is sent anywhere.

Free on Google Play. No account to create — install it and start writing.