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Pabbel Docs

Documents you write together, kept in your Drive.

Write with others in real time, talk it through in comments, and step back to any earlier version. Import Word files, keep every document in your Drive, and export to Word or PDF when one has to leave.

  • Live co-editing
  • Comments
  • Version history
  • Word and PDF export

01What’s inside

A calm editor that keeps up with the room.

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    Write together, live

    Everyone you invite to edit types in the same document at once, each with their own coloured cursor, and you can see who is in it right now.

  2. 02

    Comments on the words

    Select a phrase and comment on it. Reply in a thread, resolve it when it is settled, and reopen it if it is not.

  3. 03

    Every version kept

    Each save becomes a version you can preview and restore, with who saved it. The newest 50 are kept, and a restore can itself be undone.

  4. 04

    Word in, Word and PDF out

    Import .docx, Markdown, HTML or plain text. Download as Word, PDF, Markdown, HTML or text, with headers, footers and page numbers kept in Word.

  5. 05

    Real pages

    Letter, A4 and other sizes, portrait or landscape, with margins, headers and footers, page numbers, footnotes and a table of contents built from your headings.

  6. 06

    Quick to write in

    Type / to insert headings, lists, checklists, tables, quotes or a page break. Start from a template, find and replace, and keep an eye on the word count.

02Why Pabbel

Why draft where nobody is reading over your shoulder?

Pabbel Docs

Free document editors usually sit inside an advertising company’s account, next to the search history and the profile it already keeps on you. Pabbel Docs belongs to a suite paid for by the people who use it, so there is nothing to gain from reading what you write: your documents are never scanned to target ads and never sold. Each one is a file in your own Drive, behind the same account, two-step sign-in and sharing rules as everything else you keep here.

03Questions

Asked and answered.

Is Pabbel Docs free?
Yes. Docs comes with every Pabbel account, including the free one, with every feature on every plan. Documents count toward the storage your account shares with Mail and Drive - 10 GB free - and plans with more start at $5.49 a month.
Can several people edit a document at the same time?
Yes. Everyone you share a document with as an editor can type in it at the same time as you, with live cursors. People with view access can read it and leave comments.
Does it work with Microsoft Word files?
Yes. Import a .docx from the Docs home page to turn it into a Pabbel document, and download any document as .docx or PDF. Older .doc files need saving as .docx first.
How do I share a document?
Invite people by email as editors or viewers, or turn on a link that anyone signed in to Pabbel can open. Sharing a folder in Drive shares the documents inside it too.
Can I get an older version back?
Yes. Every save is kept as a version - the newest 50 per document - and you can preview any of them and restore it. Older versions don’t count toward your storage.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Docs runs in the browser on computers, tablets and phones, in 31 languages, with a right-to-left interface for Arabic, Persian and Urdu.

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