Superelectric
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A writing machine, not a word processor.

Superelectric opens in under a second, runs with the network unplugged, and encrypts every draft on your own machine before it goes anywhere. It is the typewriter that got out of your way, with the one modern convenience worth having: it never loses your work.

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Pay once for a year or five. Nothing renews on its own.

Four decisions that shaped everything else

  • Cold start

    Open it and it is already open

    No splash screen, no sync spinner, no “reconnecting.” Your documents live on your disk, so the app has nothing to wait for. Launch to blinking cursor is under a second on a ten-year-old laptop.

  • Offline

    The network is optional, permanently

    Activate a device once and it works with the Wi-Fi off for the entire term you paid for — not a seven-day grace period that strands you on a plane. If your term lapses, the app keeps working until the day you already paid through.

  • Encryption

    We hold ciphertext

    Your password derives a key on your own machine and never leaves it. Drafts are encrypted before they sync. Nobody here can read your novel, and neither can anyone who walks off with our database.

  • Everywhere

    Same editor on three surfaces

    Desktop, Android, and the browser run one codebase against one set of files. Up to 3 devices on an account, in any mix you like — a tower, a laptop, and a phone all draw from the same pool.

This is the whole interface

One column of text on a warm page, a status line, and nothing else until you ask for it. Chapters, notes, and search are a keystroke away and invisible until then.

Set in Besley at 19px. Change the face, measure, and page colour to taste — these are the defaults, not the rules.

Chapter Four — Kittiwake Encrypted

The harbour had frozen in the night, and by morning the boats were set in it like type in a slug — upright, immovable, each at the angle the tide had left it.

Ada put her hand on the rail and found it warmer than the air. She had been awake since four, which was not unusual, and she had written nothing, which was

1,284 words Saved 2 minutes ago Working offline

What we can see when you write

Nothing.

Not the title, not the word count, not a preview, not a “just for indexing” copy. Your password derives an encryption key in the app on your device; the servers receive already-encrypted blobs and a date telling them when your access runs out. That is the entire relationship.

It is also why there is no “forgot password” link that recovers your writing. We could not build one honestly. Keep your recovery phrase somewhere real.

How that works, in detail

Two lengths, one price each

One year

$39 once

A full year of updates and offline use. Renew whenever you like; nothing auto-charges.

Access runs 365 days from the day you buy

Buy one year

Five years

$129 once

The same thing, priced for people who plan to still be writing in 2031.

Access runs 1,826 days from the day you buy

Buy five years

Every purchase includes the desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux, the Android app, the web app, and 3 activated devices. Full details

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