Three editors, one file

Not three apps stapled together. A file has parts; a part is a document, a spreadsheet or a deck.

¶ Write

Paragraph styles — title, headings, bulleted and numbered lists, quotes, code — with inline bold, italic and underline, alignment, and a page that feels like paper. Enter makes a paragraph, Backspace at the start merges it back.

⊞ Calculate

Live formulas: =SUM(A1:A5), IF, AVERAGE, ROUND, cross-sheet references like Budget!D6 and around thirty functions, with cycle detection instead of a hang. Many sheets, range selection, tab-separated copy and paste that keeps formulas inside Quire.

▣ Present

Four layouts, a slide list with live thumbnails, speaker notes, and a full-screen show on F5. The slide you edit is the slide you present — same geometry, same fonts.

Opens what you have

.docx, .xlsx and .pptx open directly and save back to the same format, so nothing changes for the people you send files to. Export any part to Office or to PDF with the fonts embedded — searchable, selectable, printable.

Reads PDFs as documents

Open a PDF and its text, headings and lists are rebuilt into an editable document. Layout and images are not kept — it's the words you get to work with, honestly.

Offline, private, yours

No sign-up wall, no telemetry, nothing phones home. The .quire format is plain JSON you can read in a text editor and keep in git. Recent files live in ~/.config/quire, not in a cloud.

Native and fast

Rust, wgpu and egui — the same stack as Reel. One small binary per platform, draws on the GPU, opens in a blink, and the Noto Sans family is embedded so bold and italic look right on every machine.

Undo you can trust

Every part keeps its own history. Structural changes — splitting paragraphs, committing a cell, adding a slide — are snapshots you can walk back with Ctrl+Z; text fields keep their own typing undo on top.

The document editor — The document: styles, inline formatting, lists and quotes on a page.

The spreadsheet editor — The spreadsheet: formulas evaluate live, errors show as errors.

The presentation editor — The deck: layouts, thumbnails, notes — F5 to present.

Download & install

One binary per platform. No installer wizard, no account, no telemetry.

🐧 Any Linux (x86_64)

One line — installs to ~/.local/bin and verifies the checksum:

curl -fsSL https://quire.pixygon.io/install.sh | bash

Or grab the tarball and put quire on your PATH yourself.

quire-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

🏛 Arch Linux

Add the Pixygon repo once, then it's a normal package with updates:

# /etc/pacman.conf
[pixygon]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = https://pixygontech.b-cdn.net/releases/pacman-repo/x86_64

sudo pacman -Sy quire

🪟 Windows (x86_64)

Unzip anywhere and run quire.exe. Drop a file on the window or pass it on the command line: quire report.docx.

quire-windows-x86_64.zip

Every file has a published SHA-256 next to it (append .sha256 to any download URL). Release history lives in the manifest. macOS builds are on the way.

Pixiel, not a paperclip

A robot from the Pixygon universe sits in a side panel, sees the part you're working on, and can write straight into it. You choose where it thinks.

Your own model LOCAL · NO ACCOUNT

Point Pixiel at any OpenAI-compatible server on your machine — Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, vLLM. Press Detect, pick a model, done. Nothing leaves your computer.

ollama run llama3.2   # then: Pixiel → ⚙ → Detect

Your Pixygon account LUMEN

Sign in and Pixiel answers through Pixygon, spending Lumen — the same assistant, memory and voice as pixiel.ai. Your document context travels with each question; sign out removes the session from your disk.

In a document

Summarise, improve the writing, continue, fix spelling — then Insert into document or Replace selection. Headings and bullets in the reply become real styles.

In a spreadsheet

Explain the sheet, explain the selected formula, suggest one for the selection, find mistakes. Tab-separated replies paste at the cursor as cells.

In a deck

Tighten a slide, suggest speaker notes, outline three more slides. A reply becomes new slides after the current one, or the current slide's notes.

Keys — the muscle memory

If you've used Word, Excel or PowerPoint, your hands already know Quire.

New · Open · SaveCtrl+N O S

Save as .quireCtrl+Shift+S

Close · QuitCtrl+W / Ctrl+Q

Undo · RedoCtrl+Z / Ctrl+Y

Bold · Italic · UnderlineCtrl+B I U

New paragraph · merge backEnter / ⌫

Move around the grid← ↑ → ↓ Tab Enter

Edit cell · cancel · clearF2 / Esc / Del

Copy · cut · paste cellsCtrl+C X V

Present · next · leaveF5 / → / Esc

Pixiel · sendCtrl+Shift+P / Ctrl+Enter

Next open fileCtrl+Tab

Bring a report and its numbers together

Open report.docx, add a Spreadsheet part from the sidebar, paste the figures, then Save as .quire. Send the .docx to whoever needs Word; keep the .quire for yourself.

Turn a PDF into a deck

Open the PDF, ask Pixiel to outline three slides, click Add as slides — then add a Presentation part and drag the outline in. Export the deck to .pptx or PDF.

What Quire doesn't do yet

Images and tables inside documents, keeping PDF page layout, number formats, slide themes and images, printing beyond PDF export, and real-time collaboration. The release manifest shows what changes.

QuireWrite. Calculate. Present.One kind of file.