Everything Palimpseste can do

For those who think in syntax. Highlighting, completion, section folding.

• Real-time syntax highlighting
• Automatic light and dark theme
• Search and replace with regex

Visual writing like a word processor, but with Markdown underneath.

• Full toolbar (bold, links, images, tables...)
• In-place editable tables
• Bidirectional sync with source Markdown

Best of both worlds: edit on the left, see the render on the right.

• Real-time sync
• Ideal for learning Markdown

Final rendering with professional academic themes.

• 5 themes: Default, APA, Chicago, IEEE, LaTeX
• Interactive table of contents

DOCX, HTML, RTF, Markdown, plain text. Native JavaScript conversion — no external dependencies, works entirely offline.

Palimpseste analyzes document structure (headings, levels, length) and proposes an editable chapter breakdown before importing.

The heuristic reads vocabulary and structure to determine whether your document is an academic essay, a novel, or a news piece — and configures the workspace accordingly.

After import, the AI can automatically generate the story bible (characters, locations), bibliography, or thesis structure — by chaining the existing regeneration operations.

Character, location, and object cards. Automatic proper name detection in your text. Quick search and reference.

Your scenes are cards. Drag and drop them to restructure your narrative in an instant.

Visualize your story's chronology. Spot timeline inconsistencies at a glance.

Thread × chapter matrix. Track the progress of each plot through your novel.

20 classic structures — Hero's Journey, Save the Cat, kishōtenketsu, three-act — injected into your timeline in one click, beat by beat.

Several volumes under one roof, a shared Bible with volume precedence, and continuity checks — a character who died in volume 1 won't reappear in volume 3 without you knowing.

Local named-entity recognition detects people, places and organisations — no word list to maintain.

You approve every substitution. A missed name remains possible. The review is yours.

The same entity gets the same label throughout the file. One file, not a corpus.

Detection runs on your disk. With a local AI model, the text stays on the machine. This is not a compliance certificate.

Build reference libraries (an article corpus, your previous series, an external style manual). Attach several per project. Each is semantically indexed locally — relevant passages flow automatically into every generation's context.

Embeddings computed with fastembed-rs (ONNX model downloaded once, ~480 MB). Vectors live in the project folder. Zero cloud calls for indexing. Your personal archives, notes, previous drafts — all semantically queried without ever leaving your disk.

Local MoE models sometimes fail on structured output. Palimpseste tries 4 strategies in cascade: native → cooldown → channel-stripped → silent cloud fallback (opt-in). You configure nothing — the app detects and repairs at runtime, no model list to maintain.

Claude (Anthropic), GPT (OpenAI), or a local model on your machine (Ollama, LM Studio). Your keys stay in the macOS secure keychain. Tested local models for demanding operations: Phi-4 14B, Qwen 2.5 14B, Gemma 3 27B, Mistral Small 3.1, Llama 3.3 70B. → Installation guide

Select a passage, right-click or Cmd+K, and pick: Rewrite, Continue, Expand, Describe, Summarize. The change applies directly with preview and approval. Five verbs, each with presets, adapted to your professional profile (novelist, journalist, researcher).

Palimpseste auto-detects your project's language (French, English, German, Spanish, Italian) and explicitly enforces it at the top of every AI prompt. Your local model no longer drifts to English against your wishes.

Mention @chapter, @project, or @selection to give context. The assistant understands what you're talking about.

Every AI-generated passage is subtly marked in the Markdown source (standard HTML comments — portable, visible in git diff). The status bar shows in real time "100% human" or "🤖 12% AI" based on your generation share. On export, markers are stripped automatically.

The assistant remembers your preferences across sessions. Your personal style guide prevents it from betraying your tone.

Rephrasing, transition improvement, summary, bibliography check, cross-chapter coherence analysis.

The assistant can create, modify, or append to files in your project. You preview the proposed content and confirm before any write. Nothing changes without your approval.

Every assistant reply saves into a project file: replace, append, or create. Structured content suggests its own destination — no more copy-paste.

For structured chapter-by-chapter reports: Palimpseste detects the next chapter to produce and pre-fills the request. You stay in control — never auto-submitted.

Flesch-Kincaid score, per-section analysis, average sentence length. See the reading difficulty of each part.

Recurring words, word groups, and expressions. Measured lexical diversity. Common words are automatically ignored.

Detects passages too similar across chapters using n-grams (≥ 8 words). Automatic match extension, gradual severity. Distinct from external plagiarism detection — here, your own text is repeating itself without you noticing.

Detect words you use too often compared to the norm. Severity thresholds to identify your unconscious habits.

Honest signals — never a probability gauge. Palimpseste detects stylistic markers characteristic of AI-assisted writing: connector overload, list cascades, low sentence-length variance, excessive lexical density. In 5 languages.

Create your own dictionary of words to avoid or prefer. Built-in suggestions in French and English.