One flexible licensing model. Every learner, employee, and institution covered.
Whether you're equipping a single student, a classroom, an entire district, a university lab, or a workplace, WordQ scales to fit your budget, your platform mix, and your rollout timeline — with no requirement for individual user email addresses at volume, school, or district level
There's a Licence Option for Every Circumstance
WordQ is available on a subscription basis, typically licensed for one year, with multi-year commitments available for organizations that want budget certainty. Licences can be set up at the volume, school, or district level without requiring an individual user email address, and — for WordQ Desktop on Windows and macOS — the software runs securely offline except for licence activation and renewal, supporting continuity for students without robust home internet access .
Across all platforms, WordQ does not collect usage data from a user
There's a Licence Option for Every Circumstance
Licence Type
Individual
Volume
School-wide / District-wide
Institutional-wide / Lab
Best for
A single student, employee, or higher education student
Schools, or labs supporting more than 5 users, workplaces more than 10 users
Entire schools, district bards or multi academy trusts
Colleges, universities, and higher education computer labs
How it works
One licence, one user purchase directly from the Quillsoft Store or via PO / Invoice
Bulk licensing with simplified management; WordQ for Google Chrome includes a dedicated Customer Admin Portal so you can manage your own licences
Licences made available based on student population and deployed by domain, so technical teams can roll out to every machine without manual setup
WordQ Pro Desktop and Chrome licensed for individual students, in volumes, by lab, or institution-wide
Licensing by Audience
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Schools can license WordQ Desktop and WordQ for Google Chrome for individual students, in volumes, school-wide, or district-wide. Options span Individual, Volume (support for more than 5 students, with a Customer Admin Portal for Chrome), and School/District-Wide licensing deployed by domain
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Districts get the same Individual, Volume, and School/District-Wide options, with licensing that aligns investment to budget cycles and evolving enrollment. Pro-rata agreements support financial planning, and multi-year options reduce budget uncertainty year over year
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Higher educational institutions can license WordQ Pro Desktop and Chrome for individual students, in volumes, by lab, or institution-wide. Individual students can also purchase WordQ Pro Desktop or Chrome directly from the Quillsoft Store
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Employers can license WordQ Pro Desktop for individual employees or in volume. Employers and employees can also purchase WordQ Pro Desktop individually through the Quillsoft Store
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iWordQ must be purchased directly through the Apple App Store for all audiences — schools, districts, higher education, and workplaces. A 50% discount is available when purchasing in blocks of 20 copies through Apple School Manager
Pricing at a glance
WordQ Desktop (Windows and macOS) and WordQ for Google Chrome are available as annual subscriptions starting from CA$119.00, offered in Standard and Pro versions
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Built for elementary, intermediate, and secondary students, with age-appropriate vocabulary and dictionaries.
Word prediction for school age students
Suggests likely words as you write, helping you express ideas with fewer keystrokes and less frustration accurate enough to complete many words in as few as 1.3 keystrokes with orthograpic support.Text-to-speech for school age students
Reads words and full text aloud so you can listen to word choices, catch errors, and check comprehension before you submit or send.Speech-to-text and voice typing
Gives you another way to get ideas down when typing is difficult. Availability varies by product and platform.Word banks for writing support
Helps you access the vocabulary that matters for a specific class topic, project, or everyday writing task.ThoughtQ for idea-building
A dynamic, pre-writing research tool that helps you explore a topic, connect related words and ideas, and generate new directions for essays and home work.
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Built for higher education and the workplace, with advanced vocabulary.
Word prediction for adults
Suggests likely words as you write, helping you express ideas with fewer keystrokes and less frustration accurate enough to complete many words in as few as 1.3 keystrokes with orthograpic support.Text-to-speech for adults
Reads words and full text aloud so you can listen to word choices, catch errors, and check comprehension before you submit or send.Speech-to-text and voice typing
Gives you another way to get ideas down when typing is difficult. Availability varies by product and platform.Word banks for writing support
Helps you access the vocabulary that matters for a specific class topic, project, or everyday writing task.ThoughtQ for idea-building
A dynamic, pre-writing research tool that helps you explore a topic, connect related words and ideas, and generate new directions for projects and work based communicationDesktop (Windows and macOS) + iWordQ
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There is a licence option for all circumstances. The options for licences are:
Individual licences - where support is required for one student
Volume licences - where support is provided to more than 5 students in a school. With WordQ for Google Chrome, we also provide a Customer Admin Portal for you to manage your own licences
School / District Wide - where licences are made available based on student population and deployed based on domain making it easier for technical teams to deploy to all machines
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Multi-year agreements for 3 and 5 years are becoming more and more requested based on:
Easier to budget for the forthcoming period
Discounts available for a longer term commitment
Where annual subscriptions are not accepted multi-year with ongoing updates included are e.g. ADP licences
Desktop (Windows and macOS) + iWordQ
Important
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WordQ for Windows v6: Windows 10(v22H2) - 11(v24H2), desktop and web applications, PDFs (built-in reader/editor)
WordQ for Windows v5: Windows 10(v22H2) - 11(v23H2), desktop applications, PDFs (built-in reader/editor)
WordQ for macOS v6: macOS 11 (Big Sur) desktop applications, PDFs (built-in reader/editor) (Arriving Feb 5, 2026)
WordQ for macOS v5: macOS 10.13.6 - 15.1, desktop applications, PDFs (built-in reader/editor)
Internet connection required for software activation
Version 5 Windows Users: ARM-based computers are not supported. WordQ is not currently supported on ARM-based computers running Windows ARM, e.g. Microsoft Surface with Snapdragon processor, or Windows emulation on MacOS with M1-M4 processors
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WordQ for Windows v6: 6.2.8 (Feb 2, 2026)
WordQ for Windows v5: 5.4.30 (Aug. 1, 2023) Note: We do not have any plans for future updates past WordQ 5 v5.4.3 as improvements have been included in WordQ Standard/Pro for Windows v6.1.x.
WordQ for macOS v6: 6.0.10 (Feb 5, 2026)
WordQ for MacOS v5: 5.5.7 (July 17, 2025)
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WordQ functionality (e.g., word prediction, speech feedback, and abbreviations) is not supported when using onscreen keyboards, eyegaze, system speech recognition, and screenreader software, although it does not interfere with such assistive technology. Other 3rd party assistive technology may interfere with the operation of WordQ beyond our control. While we have evaluated WordQ with the most common commercial applications such as Microsoft Word and Google Docs, new operating system and application updates by Microsoft, Google and Apple may introduce incompatibilities with WordQ beyond our control. While we will endeavour to address these within a timely fashion we cannot guarantee functionality with all future updates by 3rd parties.
WordQ’s PDF reader/editor requires PDF documents to be accessible, i.e., searchable text.
Compatibility may vary within different versions of operating systems and applications. Some may not support all features of WordQ. Please contact us for a 30-day free trial download of the full version of WordQ Desktop to allow for testing within your own environment.
Please read the EULA for further limitations on the deployment/use of WordQ.
