Overview
Edit documents, not their XML.
Open, edit, and repair PowerPoint, Word, Excel, PDF, and InDesign files without hand-editing XML.
Every file opens with the tools it needs.
Opens pptx, docx and xlsx (plus dotx, potx, xltx, docm, pptm and xlsm), PDF and InDesign IDML. Each kind gets the tools that apply to it, and INDD files open through your own copy of Adobe InDesign.
Reorder, rotate and split pages, add highlights, notes and stamps, fill and flatten forms, recognise scanned pages and redact text for good. Run a preflight before you export a print-ready copy.
Move frames, rewrite story text, apply paragraph styles and swatches, and manage pages and layers. The data-loss report lists what Doctate approximates or does not draw. INDD files open through your own copy of InDesign.
Every file opens with the tools it needs.
Five kinds of document
Opens pptx, docx and xlsx (plus dotx, potx, xltx, docm, pptm and xlsm), PDF and InDesign IDML. Each kind gets the tools that apply to it, and INDD files open through your own copy of Adobe InDesign.
Mark up, fill, redact and print PDFs
Reorder, rotate and split pages, add highlights, notes and stamps, fill and flatten forms, recognise scanned pages and redact text for good. Run a preflight before you export a print-ready copy.
Edit InDesign IDML files
Move frames, rewrite story text, apply paragraph styles and swatches, and manage pages and layers. The data-loss report lists what Doctate approximates or does not draw. INDD files open through your own copy of InDesign.
A toolbar that fits the document
Fonts, alignment, insert, arrange and page tools sit above the page and change with the file you have open: slides, text, cells, PDF markup or InDesign frames. Select an object and its position and size appear. When the window is narrow, whole groups move into a menu.
Place objects exactly
Type the position and size of the selected slide object, align it to the slide, and change its order and grouping. The same four fields sit in the toolbar while an object is selected.
Browse, design and insert tables
The tables in your document and thirteen built-in templates in one place. Start a table from a template, design it part by part with borders and automations, then install the style.
Edit charts without opening Office
Change a chart’s type, title, legend, colours and data, or add a new chart from a few rows of data. Editing values also updates the chart’s embedded workbook in Office.
One request, every part updated.
The assistant has a tool for every feature, on Office files, PDFs and InDesign documents alike. Apple Intelligence is on-device and the default, or use ChatGPT or your own OpenAI API key. A request with several parts is split into steps, and every change is one step you can undo.
Pick a replacement for any font and apply them together, theme fonts included. Fonts stored inside the file can be removed to make it smaller.
Every image in the file with unused and duplicate media flagged. Recompress, merge duplicates and strip metadata, all as one undo step.
The assistant edits this presentation through the same tools you see in Tools. Every change is one step you can undo.
One request, every part updated.
Ask for changes in plain words
The assistant has a tool for every feature, on Office files, PDFs and InDesign documents alike. Apple Intelligence is on-device and the default, or use ChatGPT or your own OpenAI API key. A request with several parts is split into steps, and every change is one step you can undo.
The assistant edits this presentation through the same tools you see in Tools. Every change is one step you can undo.
Replace fonts across the whole file
Pick a replacement for any font and apply them together, theme fonts included. Fonts stored inside the file can be removed to make it smaller.
See what is inside and shrink it
Every image in the file with unused and duplicate media flagged. Recompress, merge duplicates and strip metadata, all as one undo step.
Slide size, page setup and sheet layout
Change slide dimensions, set paper, margins and columns in Word, or freeze panes and set the print area in Excel.
Quick numbers in workbooks
Total, average and more for any range without writing to the sheet. Insert a formula, or recompute every formula and store fresh results in the file.
Package parts and XML
Every file inside the document, with an XML editor that has line numbers, completion and validation, and one undoable step per change.
The same jobs from the terminal
doctate-cli covers the same jobs, including the PDF and InDesign tools, for scripted clean-ups across many files.
Step back to any change
Go back to any step or redo it. Opening a document keeps a copy, and editing keeps a working copy until you save.
Export, recolour and restructure.
Make a copy as PDF, PNG images, Markdown, HTML, plain text and more, or turn a Markdown, text or CSV file into a new Office document. PDFs convert to Word, PowerPoint, Excel and text. The original is not touched.
Edit theme palettes and custom colours, see the colours remembered in the file, and swap one explicit colour for another across the whole document.
Turn a slide into a layout, a layout into a master, and add variants of a layout with a different look.
Export, recolour and restructure.
Export to other formats
Make a copy as PDF, PNG images, Markdown, HTML, plain text and more, or turn a Markdown, text or CSV file into a new Office document. PDFs convert to Word, PowerPoint, Excel and text. The original is not touched.
Rework colours at the source
Edit theme palettes and custom colours, see the colours remembered in the file, and swap one explicit colour for another across the whole document.
Masters, layouts and variants
Turn a slide into a layout, a layout into a master, and add variants of a layout with a different look.
Pay once. Keep it.
- Licence
- 1 device, or 5 at checkout
- Updates
- Two major versions
- Refund
- Self-serve within 14 days
- Requires
- macOS 26+
