Software · AI chatbots & assistants

GhostPen

AI text editing anywhere on your desktop.

Completely free
Windows
Open source
No account

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
License: MIT — Open source (permissive)confirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Account required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: WindowsEstablished by Windows: Winget
Publisher: Sergio Marin
Latest version: 0.2.12
Source code: github.com/highercomve/ghostpen

Overview

Features described in its GitHub repository and in its Winget manifest: voice input and commands, annotation and highlighting, text recognition (OCR), PDF export, Markdown support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Also: a Playground with streaming answers, text extraction from clipboard images (OCR through a vision model), live captions of system audio, and voice dictation.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Highlight text in any app, press the hotkey (or click the tray icon), pick an action (proofread, rewrite, translate, …); the result is pasted back in place.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Also: a Playground with streaming answers, text extraction from clipboard images (OCR through a vision model), live captions of system audio, and voice dictation.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Summarize web pages and export them as PDF or Markdown with Mermaid diagrams.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Summarize web pages and export them as PDF or Markdown with Mermaid diagrams.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of GhostPen is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 9 November 2026
Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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