What's new
Every HumDocs update, newest first: what's new, what got better and what got fixed. Chrome installs updates by itself, usually within a day of one coming out.
Version 2.3.0
Coming soon October 2026
The biggest update so far. HumDocs now works in Google Slides, can type for you later or by a deadline, and has a free plan with no limit on runs.
New
- Google Slides. Click into a text box on a slide and HumDocs types into it, just like a Doc.
- Type later. Pick a Doc and a time and it starts by itself. Or set it to start right after another Doc finishes. Pro
- Deadline plans. Give it a long document and a due date, and it types a little each day so it's finished in time. If the computer was off for a session, it catches up by itself. Pro
- Change a scheduled run after you set it: a new time, or a different text. Pro
- Carries on after a reload. If the Doc reloads mid-run, a card shows how far it got, with one Continue button.
- Keeps typing in the background. Switch to another tab and it carries on.
- A free plan for everyone: as many runs as you like, each up to 10,000 characters (about 1,700 words), with every style and control. Pro removes the length limit and adds Type later, deadlines, breaks, file import, the reference card and saved styles. You can try Pro free for 3 days.
- Break lengths on two wheels, minutes and seconds, like the timer in a phone's clock app.
- Notifications when a scheduled run finishes, or couldn't start.
- Keeps the computer awake while a run is typing, and only then.
- Shortcuts: Alt+Shift+H opens HumDocs and Alt+Shift+P pauses or resumes, from any tab.
Better
- Recommended time depends on length. Short pieces type at about 40 words a minute. Essays slow to a real writing pace (about 27 words a minute at 500 words), so the Doc's version history looks like someone actually writing it.
- Quicker, steadier typing. The letters come at an everyday typing speed, and the thinking time goes into pauses between sentences and paragraphs instead.
- No long waits at line breaks.
- Rewrites read like a person changing their mind, not the same phrase typed twice.
- You can use the Doc while it types. Click somewhere else and the cursor goes back to where HumDocs was.
- Calmer cards in the Doc: a smaller timer, and an end-of-run card that shows the time it took in green.
- A cleaner popup, with a bigger text box and your recent texts in History.
Fixed
- The timer now stays in step with the typing, even after clicks in the Doc, pauses and breaks.
- A long run still ends on time after you pause it.
- A break you ask for during a long pause starts straight away.
- The break length wheels no longer race when you scroll or drag them.
- If Google Docs goes offline for a moment, typing waits for it instead of losing letters.
- A Doc waiting for its scheduled time stays loaded when Chrome's Memory Saver is on.
- Emoji are typed whole, and text in other alphabets types correctly.
Version 2.2.1
Released September 11, 2026
Five months of work since the first version, all of it free.
New
- Typos that look real. Misspellings on hard words, slips of the finger on easy ones, each one noticed and fixed.
- Rewrites. Now and then it starts a phrase one way, goes back and changes it.
- Speed that drifts up and down like a person's, instead of sitting flat.
- Breaks of 2, 5, 10 or 15 minutes in the middle of a run, with Pause, add time and End early.
- Reference card: your text beside the page, scrolling along as it types.
- Import a file instead of pasting: .txt and .docx.
- A summary at the end of each run: time, typos and speed.
Fixed
- Typing at the Minimum time no longer gets stuck at one flat speed.
- A stall is never made up for with a burst of impossibly fast typing.
Version 2.0.0
Released April 15, 2026
The first version on the Chrome Web Store. Paste your text, choose how long it should take, and HumDocs types it into your Google Doc at a human pace, with pauses and typos you can adjust.