Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Spectre
Hi HN! I'm Seth from Spectre, the world's first Cursor for Google Docs. Everyone's building a Cursor for writing, but no one is integrating into existing platforms that have billions of monthly active users such as Google Docs and Microsoft Word. We currently have two features - an autocomplete that's similar to Cursor's 'tab' system and a diff editor activated with Ctrl + Shift + K over a selected piece of text. You can check out a demo on our website and download the extension from there. Not many people are building this deeply in extensions from what we have seen so we are super stoked…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Writingmate▲454AI copilot for Google Docs, Slides, Sheets with 20k+ users
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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ButterDocs▲571The Google Docs alternative for serious writers & teams
2024 · butterdocs.com · its alternatives →
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Cursor 2.0▲957Our first coding model and new interface for agents
Oct 2025 · cursor.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I am building Docmost, an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion. I have been working on it for the past 12 months. This is the first public release (beta). The rich-text editor has support for real-time collaboration, LaTex, inline comments, tables, and callouts to name a few. Features - Collaborative real-time editor - Spaces (Teamspace) - User permissions - Groups - Comments - Page history - Nested pages - Search - File attachments You can find screenshots of the product on the website. Website:…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cursor for iOS▲611Build with coding agents from anywhere
Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Andrew, one of the creators of Void. I made this open source version of Cursor where you can get all of Cursor's core features but in a fully-customizable IDE (ctrl+k, ctrl+L). We love Cursor but there are so many other features we want to build, like allowing AI to edit multiple files at once, or giving AI better understanding of your file system. Void is the open-source, fully customizable tool we've been wanting. The hard part: we're building Void as a fork of vscode. The repo has great documentation for extensions, but going deeper gets pretty involved. All of the code is…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Word processor in your browser using HTML and CSS (for invoices, legal notices, etc.) - delight-im/HTML-Sheets-of-Paper
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Google Docs add-on for recommendations on technical writing.
2020 · workspace.google.com · its alternatives →
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theORQL▲170Cursor for frontend. Build and debug in Chrome and VS Code.
Feb 2026 · theorql.com · its alternatives →
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Praxim for Word▲114Cursor for Microsoft Word: What Word Copilot should've been
2025 · praxim.ai · its alternatives →
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Zen Editor▲99Customizable AI Text Editor that syncs with Google Docs
Nov 2025 · zeneditor.co · its alternatives →
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Howdy HN, just recently made this silly typewriter variant and think some of you might enjoy it so thought I'd share. Here the cursor takes no heed of what you're typing and just advances at a steady pace, with the effect that typing something reasonable-looking requires you to type at a very steady rhythm. There's also the bonus that the space character is no longer needed—you can (and kind of have to) just wait—so the keyboard minimalists among us can shave even more space off their devices. Only desktop for now. It's an interesting contrast to the last one I made—which requires you to do…
2022 · oisinmoran.com · its alternatives →
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Mighty Cursor▲147Talk to your cursor, get instant answers right where you are
2025 · mightycursor.com · its alternatives →
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Skilldocs▲192I got fed up with Notion, so I built my dream document editor. It's all markdowned so it's easy to view skills or other agent-related documents. It's got the collaboration features I love from Figma (shared cursory and the ability to follow) and Google Docs (comments, realtime editing). Then you can export the diff and comments to an agent. I've been really liking it for talking over skill documents live on a call. I'm curious if this resonates with other people. More generally, I feel like notion is less and less relevant in an age where documents have a very different purpose and Markdown…
Aug 2026 · skilldocs.dev · its alternatives →
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