/ THE MAC APP · 0.7.0 ON THE MAC APP STORE · RUNS ON YOUR MAC
Two slots. One button.
This window is the app’s, running the real engine in your browser. Click a slot to browse or drop files onto it; “Revisions by” fills from the modified document’s author and the file name proposes <a>_v_<b>.docx. The Convert tab is the next release’s PDF mode. Nothing is uploaded.
jubarte
Drop two Word documents. Get a redline Word opens as its own.
Drop one Word document. Get a PDF, made on this Mac.
Your redline preview appears here.
Drop two .docx files, then Create redline.Inputs changed since this PDF. Press Convert to PDF again.
Preview truncated; the full redline is in the saved document.
Inputs changed since this redline. Press Create redline again.
Intake
Two files at once
Drop two .docx files, or choose Open With → Jubarte on both: the older becomes the original, both slots fill, and the redline runs. One file fills the first empty slot. The next release adds Finder’s Quick Actions: select two documents for Redline with Jubarte, or any number for Convert to PDF with Jubarte.
Attribution
Author from the modified doc
The author name stored in the modified document (its creator, or whoever saved it last). Type over it and the auto-fill stops; a “from modified doc” hint shows where the value came from. With no author in the file, the app uses your macOS user name.
Output
Proposed name, editable
<original>_v_<modified>.docx, deduped with (n). Results land in the app’s sandbox container; “Save a copy…” grants write access wherever you choose.
Preview
Marked-up paper, not a diff
Source Serif 4 on paper; insertions underlined, deletions struck, moves double-underlined. Truncated for long documents; the full redline is in the file.
Next release
Convert to PDF
A second tab takes one .docx and writes a PDF with the same layout engine as the CLI’s jubarte convert. Tracked changes print in red, blue and green, or as Word prints them. The PDF shows in the window and opens in Preview.
Price
What it costs
Today the app is $99.99 once on the Mac App Store. From the next release it is free for 5 uses, a redline or a PDF each, then Jubarte Pro at $99.99 a year. Either way nothing leaves the Mac, and this page stays free.