AI for academic writing in Microsoft Word
Textmolt is an AI sidebar for Word that works with your Zotero library. Polish a paragraph, ask a paper a question, and insert citations you can trace back to the source.
Works with Microsoft Word for WindowsZotero 7APA · MLA · Chicago · IEEE · GB/T 7714Crossref searchYour own AI key
What it does
Six things Textmolt does inside Word. Everything shown here is recorded from the real add-in — no mock-ups.
01 · Rewrite in place
Select text in your document and choose Polish, Translate to English, Expand, Summarize or Explain. The answer streams into the sidebar, and Write to document puts it back in place of your selection.
02 · Cite as you write
Search your Zotero library from the sidebar and insert a citation at the cursor, in the style your department asks for. Not in your library yet? Search Crossref, insert the citation, and save the paper to Zotero.
03 · Read papers inside Word
Open a paper from your Zotero library in Textmolt's reader, right inside Word. Select a sentence and ask AI about it: the excerpt goes into the sidebar with its page number, and the answer appears beside your draft.
04 · Ask a whole paper Pro
Ask AI about a Zotero item and choose Full text: Textmolt extracts the PDF's readable text on your computer and attaches it to your message — within page, character and model-context limits — so you can ask what the authors actually wrote, such as the limitations they acknowledge, and the answer can quote the paper directly.
05 · Research across your library Pro
Ask a question with /zotero across a Zotero collection or your whole library. Textmolt searches and reads, showing each step as it happens, then answers with citations to the papers it used — and writes the paragraph into your document with live Zotero citations.
06 · Ask about your whole draft
Add your Word document as a source and ask about all of it — the argument of a section, gaps in a literature review, a claim that still needs support. Attach PDFs or DOCX files to compare against.
Idle waits shortened; a real run takes about 30 seconds.
How the Zotero link works
Textmolt reaches Zotero through Viamolt, a small companion app on your PC that reads your library through Zotero's local API and links it to your Textmolt account. Textmolt never copies your whole library — it fetches only what you open, search for or ask about.
Your Zotero database and PDF files. Papers open in Textmolt's reader straight from your computer.
The collections, items and citation text you ask for, passed from Viamolt through the Textmolt gateway to your sidebar.
Your question and whatever context you chose for it — a selection, the document, a paper's full text or excerpts, bibliographic data and abstracts — plus relevant conversation history and memory, sent through the Textmolt gateway to the AI model. Before your first research run, Textmolt lists what research sends and waits for you to continue.
You can unpair Viamolt from your account at any time.
Your model, your key
Add an API key from a provider such as DeepSeek, Google Gemini or Alibaba Cloud's Qwen, and Textmolt forwards your requests to that provider through the Textmolt gateway. The sidebar always names the model that is answering.
Guided setup: pick a provider, create a key, paste it — a few minutes the first time
Free accounts connect DeepSeek; Pro can use more providers
Your key is stored on your computer and forwarded through the Textmolt gateway to the provider with each request; the gateway doesn't store it as an account credential
And the small things
Pin facts, decisions and style preferences. You can see and edit everything that's kept.
When a long session fills up, preview the summary before it replaces anything.
/polish, /translate, /summarize, /model, /memory, /compact and more, from the keyboard.
Collect several passages from your document and send them together.
Early access
The add-in is live for invited users, and creating an account currently takes an invite code. Public downloads and paid plans aren't open yet. Join the waitlist and invites come to you first.
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Pricing
Paid plans aren't on sale yet. Prices will be shown here when they open.
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For theses and literature reviews
Price at launch
Pro unlocks features; it doesn't include AI usage. Requests run on your own key, or on Textmolt credits once they're on sale.
Pay as you go, on either plan
Price at launch
Credits go on sale together with paid plans.
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Writing in Word | ||
| Quick actions and write back | Included | Included |
| Questions about the whole document | Included | Included |
| Attached text per conversation | 80,000 characters | 500,000 characters |
| Zotero | ||
| Search and insert citations | Included | Included |
| Ask AI about an item, with full text | Not included | Included |
| Library research (/zotero) | Not included | No run limit · own key |
| PDF reading | ||
| Read and annotate PDFs in Word | Included | Included |
| Reflowed reading view | Included | Included |
| Translate PDF selections | In the sidebar | Side by side in the reader |
| Ask the whole paper | Not included | Included |
| Models | ||
| Textmolt-provided models (credits) | Included | Included |
| Bring your own keys | DeepSeek only | DeepSeek + more |
Credits aren't on sale yet; until then, AI runs on your own key.
Questions
An AI sidebar for Microsoft Word on Windows. It rewrites and translates text where it stands, works with your Zotero library to cite, read and research, and writes the results back into your document.
Microsoft Word on Windows: Microsoft 365, Office 2021 or later, or Office 2019 Retail. The Zotero features also need Zotero 7 on the same PC and the Viamolt companion app. Word for Mac and WPS Office aren't supported yet.
Textmolt is invite-only right now, and creating an account takes an invite code. Join the waitlist on this page: invites go to the list first, and the account you create with one gets a Pro trial.
For now, yes: AI requests run through an API key you add — DeepSeek on Free, more providers on Pro. Textmolt-provided models, paid with credits, open together with paid plans.
When you send a request, your question and the context you chose — a selection, the document, attached text or library material — go through our gateway to the AI provider. Conversations, summaries and memory are stored on our servers, and adding a full document stores its text for indexing. Textmolt doesn't use your documents to train models. The Privacy Policy has the details.
Research answers cite items from your library. A citation that can't be matched to a real item is marked unverified and can't be inserted into your document. AI output is still for reference — check claims against the source.
APA, MLA, Chicago (notes), IEEE, and GB/T 7714-2015 in numeric and author–date forms. The GB/T styles need a recent version of Viamolt.
There is a free plan today. Pro and credit top-ups aren't on sale yet; their prices will be on this page when paid plans open.
If you haven't used any paid feature, you can request a full refund within 24 hours of purchase. Using a paid feature — through Textmolt's servers, locally, or with your own API key — ends that 24-hour refund for unused service. Statutory rights always remain, including the 14-day withdrawal right for consumers in the EEA and the UK, charged proportionately for what was used. The Refund Policy has the exact terms.
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