A new way to write

Like Google Docs,
but Butter

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Butter is a collaborative writing app like Google Docs, but makes writing and collaborating smoother and more joyful. We had 32 frustrations with Google Docs, learn below how we solved them.

Productivity first

A distracton-free design, dark mode, a ⌘K formatting palette, power-user shortcuts, a stash for discarded snippets: Welcome to 2031.

Night Mode

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Command+K

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Snapshots and Autosaves

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Collaboration

With Butter, you collaborate in real-time, like in Google Docs, but we've improved on some long-standing frustrations:

Sharing is simple and gives you greater control over access, you can toggle on suggestion mode in hindsight, and multiple teams can work in different copies of the same document.

Track Suggestions

Remember when you forgot to enable suggestion mode before making edits? In Google Docs that's too bad. In Butter, we always track authorship and you can enable highlights in hindsight.

Sharing & Access Control

Google Docs has all-or-nothing access control. In Butter you create personalized links with individualized access rights that you share with a single person (single use) or groups of people.

Multi-Drafts

What makes collaboration tricky in Google Docs is that you only get one document, that everybody is working on: No experiments in private, everything is visible at the same time.

Butter has multi-drafts, where people work in their private copy and then publish changes when they are ready. These changes are accepted or rejected individually and merged into the main document with a click.

Private Drafts

In Butter, each writer (or each team of writers) can create their own draft to experiment in. These drafts may be hidden from others until they are actively published.

Approval Flow

Once a draft is published, it can be compared with the main draft. Changes can be discussed, approved, and rejected. Editing conflicts become visible and can be resolved.

Merge

Multi-drafts are not just copies: With a click you migrate changes from one draft to the other.

This enables new workflows: In a contract negotiation, a team can collaborate among themselves, before publishing to the counter party.

Or you can send a multi-draft to a peer where they can leave edits while you work in your draft – then you pick and choose the changes you like.

Versioning

Each document is versioned automatically. Browse older versions, compare any two earlier snapshots of your work, undo changes with a click.

A safety net that actually helps and let's you edit with confidence.

Compare & Undo

Highlight changes since any previous snapshot and undo them with a click.

Notes

Collect research material, references, and meeting notes together with your document. With bi-directional linking, you have all your discussions and reasearch at your fingertips.

Butter is better.
Michi
It's fully collaborative.
Oliver
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ButterDocs is collaborative.
Two people can even write at the exact same time.
Bruno
Butter is amazing.
It's fully collaborative.

And allows multiple drafts.
Butter is better amazing.
It's fully collaborative.

And allows multiple drafts.
Notes
An easy way to collect ideas in the document.
#ideas
Butter is better amazing.
It's fully collaborative.

And allows multiple drafts.
Butter is aaaaaaaaaamazing.
It's fully collaborative.

And allows multiple drafts.
Michi
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