What's new in Priviot Write?

Summary

Highlights

• Advanced document engine: Text, lists, tables, sections, and embedded objects are handled directly by the document model in more workflows.
• Local document templates: Reusable custom templates can be stored locally and reopened.
• Accessible speech tools: Read-aloud as well as keyboard, focus, and screen-reader access have been expanded.

New

• Documents and templates: Templates can be created, named, opened, and managed; more DOCX structures are handled as real document elements.
• Speech and accessibility: Document content can be read aloud through accessible speech tools.

Improved

• DOCX compatibility: Page geometry, section breaks, headers and footers, tables, images, and formatting are preserved across more documents.
• Proof: Proofing includes additional quality steps.
• Account: Sign-out reliably wins over ongoing local save operations.

Fixed

• Quitting on macOS: Write no longer requires Force Quit in the affected window states.
• Document model: Several list, table, selection, and page-layout edge cases were corrected.

Security & privacy

• Protected keys: Cloud/API keys remain in the main process and manipulated DOCX content is blocked.
• Verified payloads: Shared payloads are checked for provenance and drift.

Compatibility

• macOS: The direct version targets Apple Silicon.

Platforms & update

• Published: Version 1.7.0 is Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple, and available through the integrated updater or priviot.com.

Account & Sync

• Sessions end reliably: If a device is signed out or revoked in your account, Write now detects this reliably and signs out locally instead of getting stuck in a stale session.
• Secured device approval: New devices are added to the account through an end-to-end encrypted approval mechanism.

Ribbon & usability

• Commands keep their order: Related ribbon commands (e.g. Bold, Italic, Underline) now wrap like ordinary text at narrow window widths, instead of being scrambled into a confusing column order.
• Consistent active toggles: Active formatting buttons now show the same violet outline without a fill everywhere, consistent with the rest of the app.

Settings reorganized

• "Feature Settings" instead of "Profiles & Details": Local profiles and template options now live under "Feature Settings", sorted right after "Backup".
• Scoped prompt: The prompt to insert saved sender details now only appears for the Business Letter template instead of every template.

Bug fixes

• Selection no longer leaks into PDF export: A selected table cell used to appear visibly in the exported PDF.
• Ribbon menus visible again: Color pickers, list galleries, and paragraph options had become invisible due to a rendering bug.
• Deleting a profile works again: The confirmation dialog was rendered invisibly behind the settings page and couldn't be clicked.
• Floating toolbar closes reliably: It used to stay visible when Settings was opened during a text selection, and showed a non-functional scrollbar.
• Zoom display centered: The percentage between the zoom buttons is now correctly vertically aligned.

Interaction & appearance

• File menu corrected: The file menu remains above toolbars and document surfaces while it is open.
• Unified accent styling: The loading screen, controls and light appearance now apply the selected accent colour more consistently.

macOS distribution

• Developer ID and notarization: The macOS download is signed with an Apple Developer ID, notarized by Apple, and includes the stapled notarization ticket.

Priviot Proof

• German grammar checking: Proof now detects clear agreement errors, lowercase sentence starts, accidental repeated words, unambiguous punctuation spacing issues, and selected missing commas.
• Expanded English grammar: Demonstratives, there is/are agreement, selected incorrect verb forms, and clear punctuation spacing issues are detected more reliably.
• Context and clarity: Conservative suggestions can flag ambiguous pronouns, repeated sentence openings, passive chains, heavy nominalization, and overloaded sentence structures without rewriting the text automatically.
• Still local: Spelling, grammar, plausibility, and clarity are checked directly on the device; document contents are not uploaded for proofing.

Quality and reliability

• Measured language quality: Separate quality gates for German and English measure false positives, detection, and correction quality using self-authored sentence and document corpora.
• Built for long documents: Mandatory performance tests cover documents up to 100 pages, very long paragraphs, rapid revisions, and protection against stale proofing results.

Dialogs & appearance

• Consistent dialog design: Notices, licences, and update messages now use the same polished, accent-coloured Priviot shell.
• Improved accessibility: Notice dialogs have a clearer structure and visible keyboard focus states.

Localization

• English error messages: File, save, clipboard, table, comment, account, and recovery errors now reliably follow the English display language.
• Native dialogs: File-renaming errors are now also displayed in the selected German or English language.

Priviot Proof, account & appearance

• Larger local word base: 2,591 verified German and 2,521 verified English word forms are included locally.
• Accent colour per app: The account colour synchronizes by default and can be disconnected locally.
• New update notice: After a version change, a polished accent-coloured dialog links directly to the changelog.

Priviot Proof on Windows

• Current dictionaries included: The Windows build now includes German dictionary 0.3.0 and, for the first time, English dictionary 0.2.0.
• Automatic dictionary updates: Write checks for signed updates at launch and then daily, downloads them securely, and activates them atomically on Windows just as it does on macOS.
• Safe offline fallback: Without a network connection or when an update fails, Proof continues using the verified bundled dictionary.
• New Store version: The updated Windows build is released as version 1.2.0 and can be delivered through Microsoft Store updates.

Documents & templates

• Improved DOCX export: Screen and document formatting are now separated; export uses A4 and Arial and a clean, borderless DIN 5008 header block instead of a visible helper table.
• Expanded DOCX import: Paper size, orientation, margins, and real Word page breaks are now carried over into the Priviot layout on import.
• English templates fully translated: Business letter, personal letter, report, and meeting minutes now open fully in English when using the English interface.

Usability & localization

• About 40 dialogs translated: Window titles, hints, and buttons in previously untranslated dialogs (including unsaved changes, comments, links, footnotes, watermarks, table tools, version history, error messages) now appear correctly in English.
• Consistent product area: The logo and product name in the top left now get the same subtle purple hover highlight as Priviot PDF.
• Table and document terms separated: Table "header row" and document "header" are no longer treated as the same feature in English.

Writing & documents

• Local document editor: Text, paragraphs, pages, tables, and images are edited directly on the device.
• Document formats: Priviot Write documents as well as DOCX, HTML, and TXT can be opened and saved locally.
• Templates and DIN 5008: Letters, reports, and meeting notes start with structured, verified templates.

Usability & review

• Ribbon and mobile toolbar: Direct, consistently named tools remain close at hand while writing and selecting text.
• Comments and changes: Comments, change tracking, and navigation support a traceable review workflow.
• Accessible controls: Focus handling, keyboard control, and accessible colour tools have been aligned.

Priviot Proof & privacy

• German and English: The interface, templates, and Priviot Proof can be used independently in German or English.
• Local spell checking: Priviot Proof checks documents locally with an independently maintained Priviot lexicon.
• Personal dictionary: Your own terms remain local and can be imported or exported.
• Optional account connection: Core features remain available without an account; document contents are not transferred automatically.