Choose Google Docs if
Your team already works in Google Workspace, you want live co-editing in the browser today, and your documents do not need to know about your deals, people or numbers.
Centilio WriteA story unfolds
CENTILIO WRITE / WORK
Looking for a Google Docs alternative? Here is the honest version.
Google Docs made writing together in a browser normal, and it ships today. Write is designed for a narrower job: the business documents that are drafted from records your business already keeps, then signed and filed. Write has not shipped, and this page says so.
not shipped · wave 3facts as of research in 2026no competitor prices quotedcorrections welcome
Product design preview · Write has not shipped. All features, screens and prices are proposals.
Write has not shipped yet.
Everything on these pages — the screens, the features, the prices — is Centilio Write as designed, not a product you can open today. Write is in the third wave of Centilio tools: there is no app, no beta and no launch date yet, and we would rather show you the whole design and say so than publish a page with three sentences on it. Join the waitlist and you will hear first.
Side by side
Centilio Write and Google Docs, honestly.
Facts as of research in 2026, on what each tool is and how it is priced, not on list prices that change. Check the vendor’s page for today’s detail and tell us if we are out of date.
| Centilio Write | Google Docs | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A word processor inside a business suite | A browser-based word processor, part of Google Workspace |
| Built for | Business documents that depend on records: proposals, contracts, policies, reports | Teams writing together in a browser |
| Where the facts come from | Your Centilio records: deals, people, numbers, each linked to its source | What you type, paste or attach |
| AI | Celia drafts and checks facts; a person approves | Gemini, Google’s assistant |
| Co-editing | Designed in: live editing, comments, suggestions, versions | Yes, live in the browser |
| File format | Designed to import and export .docx and PDF | Its own format; exports to .docx and PDF |
| Offline | Recent documents, designed to sync on reconnect | Offline mode in supported browsers |
| Pricing model | Per business, proposed: Free, then $19 a month | Free with a personal Google account; Workspace business plans per user |
| Availability | Not shipped — wave 3, in design | Shipped and mature |
Choose
Which one to choose.
Choose Write if
Your proposals, contracts, policies and reports are drafted from records your business already keeps, you want them signed and filed without attachments, and you can wait for wave 3.
The difference
The difference is what the document starts from.
Day to day, both are designed around the same habits: live editing, comments, suggestions and versions.
Google Docs starts from a blank page or a template and leaves the facts to you. Write is designed to start from the record a document belongs to — the deal, the person, the numbers — with each fact linked to its source, so a reviewer can see where a figure came from and Celia can tell you when the source changes.
After the writing, the paths differ too. In Write the finished document goes to Sign in one click, with the signers filled in, and the signed copy is filed in Drive beside the draft.
If you switch, later
What moving from Google Docs will take.
- Keep the old tool for a while. Write is designed to import .docx, so nothing has to move on day one; start with new documents and bring old ones when you touch them.
- Move the templates first. Your proposal, contract and policy templates are where the hours are saved; rebuild those in your brand and the rest follows.
- Bring the live documents, not the archive. Documents still being edited or signed come across; finished ones can stay where they are, or be filed in Drive.
- Check one document end to end. Draft, edit, send to Sign, file in Drive — once, properly — before the team moves.
Questions
About switching.
Is Google Docs free?
Google Docs is free with a personal Google account, and business use sits in Google Workspace plans priced per user, as of research in 2026. Check Google’s page for today’s detail.
Will Write feel like Google Docs?
In the parts that matter day to day, yes by design: live editing, comments, suggestions and versions in the browser. The difference is what the document starts from.
Can I bring my Google Docs across?
Google Docs exports to .docx. Write is designed to import .docx with its headings, tables and comments.
Does Write need Google Workspace?
No. Write sits on Centilio’s own Account login and is designed to work without any other suite.
Is Write available now?
No. Write is in the third wave of Centilio tools and has no launch date yet. Join the waitlist and you will hear first.
Which should a small team pick today?
Whichever ships today, if you need it today — Write does not. If your documents are mostly drafted from deals, people and numbers, join the waitlist and judge Write when it opens.
Be told when Write opens.
Write is in the third wave, alongside the tools that hold the facts it drafts from. Join the waitlist and you will hear before the announcement — and in the meantime Drive and Sign are yours to use.