The GLASS alpha is open.

No. GLASS is a word processor designed specifically for authors and writers. We are working on a companion app called KILN, which is a professional layout designer.

In early stages of development, we have considered the two apps being built into one, but currently, we are developing KILN as a second companion app. More information will be available soon.

Every alpha writer gets a personal key by email. GLASS asks for the key once on each machine you install it on, remembers the answer, and re-checks it quietly when GLASS launches. The key is how we count active writers, and it never gates your manuscript: if a key ever stops being valid, you see a banner and keep writing, never a locked manuscript. We don’t plan to remove alpha keys when the alpha ends, and a computer that is already activated keeps running either way.

A key can be active on a limited number of computers at once. Moving to a new one? Choose Release this computer in GLASS's Preferences on the old one first. Switching keys keeps your current key in place until the new one is accepted, and a first launch without an internet connection can carry on without activating and ask again next time.

Your documents are plain files on your disk. They stay yours, key or no key.

Sign in to your Creem orders with the email address you used at checkout. Creem sends you a sign-in link, and your key is shown on the order. There is no password to remember and no NodinWrite account.

If you no longer have access to that email address at all, tell us through the Help Center and we will sort it out from the order record.

GLASS is a native desktop app on both platforms. These are the minimums the alpha is tested against; below them GLASS degrades, but we can’t promise the experience. Intel Macs and ARM Windows machines are not supported in the alpha.

Yes, both ways. GLASS exports to Word (.docx) and PDF, with paragraph styles, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes, tables, and links intact, and to plain text and Markdown. Pasting from Word or Google Docs keeps your formatting.

To bring a Word document in, choose File ▸ Import. It opens as a new GLASS document with your text, headings, formatting, lists, footnotes, links, and tables, and each Heading 1 becomes a chapter. Plain text and Markdown files import the same way. GLASS then saves to its own .glass file, which carries your manuscript along with its versions, notes, and editing history. See Import a document and Export a Word file in the guide.

Yes. GLASS’s Review mode is built for editing: suggested insertions and deletions, formatting suggestions, threaded comments, and accept or reject one at a time or in a guided walkthrough.

To work with an editor, you send them a review copy. They mark the copy up in GLASS and send it back; you merge the edits. No server, no accounts, and the file can be password-protected end to end. The guide walks through it, starting with Send to an editor.

Your writing doesn’t. Spelling and grammar checking runs on-device, there is no cloud sync and no telemetry, and the only network calls GLASS makes are the license check and a once-per-launch update check. Updates install only when you say so, and GLASS asks you to save first. A diagnostics report for a bug leaves your machine only if you paste it somewhere yourself.