#overviewIn progress

# story

YayMal is the first app in YoneTone, an office suite I am building. The goal is a word processor that feels like Word to anyone who has used Word: the same ribbon, the same pages, the same shortcuts, with no subscription and no cloud account.

The hard part is .docx. The editor is TipTap on ProseMirror, and a small FastAPI service built on python-docx converts to and from the Word format. That service is frozen and bundled inside the .dmg, so the app installs as one file and needs nothing else.

inside YayMal.dmg
EditorReact · TipTap / ProseMirror
document JSON
.docx serviceFastAPI · python-docx, frozen in
save / open
report.docx
opens in
  • Word
  • Google Docs
  • Pages
  • LibreOffice

Next on the list

  • Comments and track changes
  • Footnotes and section breaks
  • Tables that split across pages
  • A spreadsheet and a slides app on the same shell
  • Ribbon, real pages and .docx round trip

Files YayMal saves reopen exactly as they were; files from Word are converted from the Word XML. Comments, track changes and tables that split across pages come next, then a spreadsheet and a slides app on the same shell.

# screenshots

YayMal screenshot 1
YayMal screenshot 2
YayMal screenshot 3

# features

  • A Word-style ribbon: Home, Insert, Layout, References, Review and View, plus Table Layout when the cursor is in a table.
  • Print Layout with real pages: margins, orientation and paper sizes, with a draggable ruler and zoom from 10% to 500%.
  • Opens and saves .docx. Files YayMal saved reopen exactly as they were; files from Word are converted from the Word XML.
  • Styles gallery, tables, pictures, headers and footers, page numbers and a clickable table of contents.
  • A backstage File view with templates (resume, letter, report, meeting notes, MLA essay) and recent files.
  • Spell check, word count, Read Aloud, Read Mode and dark mode.
  • Asks before you lose changes and keeps a crash-recovery copy. Also runs in the browser and as an Expo phone app.
  • Tauri 2
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • TipTap / ProseMirror
  • FastAPI
  • python-docx
  • Expo

# changelog

  1. v0.1.0

    Working editor and installable app

    • Ribbon, backstage, dialogs, real pages and Word keyboard shortcuts.
    • Lossless .docx round-trip through a bundled FastAPI service, with backend tests.
    • Installable .dmg with the Python service frozen inside, plus browser and Expo mobile builds.

# roadmap

M1

Closer to Word

  • Comments and track changes
  • Footnotes and section breaks
  • Different first-page headers and footers
M2

Layout

  • Split long paragraphs and tables across pages
  • Multi-column layout and text boxes
  • Equations
M3

YoneTone suite

  • A spreadsheet and a slides app on the same shell
  • Shared file browser and recent files
  • One installer for the suite
M4

Release

  • Signed and notarised builds with auto-update
  • Intel Mac, Windows and Linux builds
  • Native PDF export

# requirements

Operating system

  • macOS 11+ on Apple Silicon (M1 or later)

Hardware

  • Any Apple Silicon Mac

Also needed

  • Nothing else: the .docx service is bundled inside the app

# download

YayMal is still in progress. Signed builds for macOS arrive with milestone M4.

macOS · soon