Which Palimpseste is for you?
Don't compare spec sheets: start from the situation that brings you here. Three gestures, three instruments.
By situation
| You want to… | You need | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Write a thesis, a novel, an investigation — with an AI that doesn't replace your voice | The Editor | Three professional profiles, the AI of your choice, and every AI intervention traced in the file. |
| Have a public AI review a corpus of interviews — without betraying the people you interviewed | Pseudo | The folder leaves pseudonymised and consistent, comes back, and the real names come back with it. |
| Understand why a video stutters in QuickTime but not in VLC | Loupe | It diagnoses the lying file and writes a repaired copy — frames identical to the last bit. |
| Prove to a committee or a publisher what came from your own hand | The Editor | Authorship tracking is captured as you write, inside the file — not guessed after the fact by a detector. |
| Prepare a client file (SIRET, IBAN, phone numbers) before sending it out for work elsewhere | Pseudo | Structured French patterns are detected and replaced with valid — and reversible — substitutes. |
| Watch a movement up close — a swing, a bird taking flight, a detail in drone footage | Loupe | Sharp ×16 zoom during playback, exact frame-by-frame stepping, on Mac, iPhone and iPad. |
| Write with an expert's method — a humanities thesis, a crime novel, a CSRD report, a white paper… | The Editor + a pack | The project template gives you a structured blank page; the pack installs an expert — persona, indexed method, sample project. |
Where the scenarios meet
The researcher is the pivot of the range: the thesis is written in the Editor, and the interview corpus goes through Pseudo before reaching the public AI. The two applications are designed to complement each other — each stands on its own, neither requires the other.
The independent professional writes deliverables in the Editor with the professional packs (market study, white paper, CSRD, legal), and shows the client, proof in hand, what is their own work.
The coach, the physiotherapist, the videographer live in Loupe — and the day an analysis report needs writing, the Editor is there.
You subscribe where you return; you pay once where the gesture is one-off
| Instrument | Model | Why this model | And never held hostage |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Editor | Free forever, then a Pro subscription (€6.99/month, €59.99/year, student €29.99/year) | You live in your workshop every day; the subscription funds the updates. | Your files stay readable on Free — and after 48 cumulative months, the licence becomes perpetual. |
| Pseudo | Subscription (€39.99/year or €4.99/month), one single price | Every new corpus is a new pass through the airlock. | When it expires, your existing tables and Restore remain: only new processing closes. |
| Loupe | One-time purchase on the App Store — never a subscription | Rescuing a file, examining a movement: the gesture is occasional, so is the price. | One purchase, your Apple devices — and the whole app works without a network. |
| Packs | Purchased individually, from the Editor | Expertise is bought once. | Perpetual re-download of purchased packs, including on a new machine. |