# Revise

16 Hacker News commenters recommended Revise and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 1 years (3 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free, fast word processor with an AI agent that lets you accept suggestions selectively. Critics object to the subscription and web-app design.

## Why people recommend it

- Free, fast, lightweight core (3 comments): "It's pretty fast, and doesn't rely on pandoc, LibreOffice, or any other external dependencies to be installed on the host system." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073618)) "the core product is completely free and even includes free LLM spellchecking" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482338)) "It's a free, lightweight, fast word processor at its core." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478264))
- Integrated AI agent inside the editor (4 comments): "It's a word processor that lets you selectively accept AI suggestions, or just talk to the agent in margin comments." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789731)) "From my testing, the Revise agent is more capable than Gemini+Docs and Copilot are right now." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477692)) "The pitch with Revise is it's a fully integrated agent inside a word processor." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477642))
- Word processor formatting features (2 comments): "Revise can do proper word processor esque formatting, like page numbers, page layout, page breaks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483703)) "Revise can already do a lot of things neither Google nor Overleaf can" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209253))

## What people warn about

- Subscription pricing around $8 monthly (4 comments): "it's hard to justify another $8 a month on another tool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477581)) "Subscription-based, web-app, and vibe-coded would individually be deal breakers." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478591)) "Subsciption and Online means not for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480960))
- Web-app design rather than desktop (2 comments): "Subscription-based, web-app, and vibe-coded would individually be deal breakers." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478591)) "Subsciption and Online means not for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480960))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Google Docs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-docs.md): 144 recommend
- [Microsoft Word](https://hackerapproved.com/p/microsoft-word.md): 129 recommend
- [Apple Pages](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pages.md): 39 recommend
- [WordPerfect](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wordperfect.md): 36 recommend
- [LibreOffice Writer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/libreoffice-writer.md): 28 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://revise.io/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Revise", https://hackerapproved.com/p/revise/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).