The writing surface for people who care about authenticity, evidence, and craft. Write here. Prove it's yours.
A modern writing surface with the red pencil brought back. Markup that nests, replay that shows the work, exports that travel.
Prove your work is yours. Students keep a record of how they wrote it, and share it with their teacher when they hand work in.
Drop a .red.md file. It verifies offline, in your browser, no account needed.
Red Stet records the process of writing — every keystroke, every revision, every paste — and packages it into a verifiable file that travels with the document. Writers get a record of their own voice that they can show anyone: a teacher, an editor, an admissions reader.
The output is two things: a clean document, and a sealed chain of evidence for how that document came to be. Both stay with you.
Stet is the proofreader's mark — Latin for let it stand. When an editor scratched out a correction and circled "stet" in the margin, they were telling the typesetter: ignore my edit; keep the author's original. This is the writing the author meant; let it stand as theirs.
Red Stet records the writing so it can stand as yours, for the rest of your life.
Opt-in at sign-up. When you join Red Stet, you opt into the recording layer. Every doc you write thereafter builds a receipt. You can flip it off per-doc whenever you want; your account stays opted in for everything else.
What we record. Plain-text events inside the editor — keystrokes, the text you paste, copy or cut, cursor moves, timestamps. Nothing rendered, nothing visual, nothing observed.
What we DON'T record. No microphone. No camera. No screenshots. No screen recording. No clipboard text you don't paste into the editor. No keystrokes outside this editor window. Same list, in this order, on every Red Stet surface that touches this.
When you hand work in for a class, your document and its record travel together, so your teacher sees how you wrote it.
Ever watched a dubbed film? The words don't match the mouth. You know instantly it's not the actor's voice in that moment. Red Stet does the same for writing — the document and the keystrokes either line up from start to finish, or they don't. — Why the recording works
Other tools give you a percentage and ask you to trust them. We give you the writing process. Black-box detection has failed teachers and students.
Your writing profile builds over years. Preserved forever, never sold. Your .red.md files verify offline through our standalone tool, free, anytime — no account required.
AI tools are part of how writing happens now. We give you proof your voice is still yours — even when you use AI to brainstorm, revise, or draft.
The earlier you start writing in Red Stet, the deeper your verified record gets. Build it before you need it.