WordSmith 9.0
- This version runs on Windows 10 and later.
- This is a 64bit version. 64bit software makes all the computer's memory available.(32bit software can only use 2GB at one time.)
download current version here
latest developments
9.0.0.152 & 3 (13-14 Dec 2025)
- Nearest Tag to show 1 tag-file tag.
- Improvements to colour choices.
- File Viewer improved initial display
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.151 (1 Dec 2025)
- Improvements to column layout choices.
- File corruption / corpus language check improved.
- File Viewer improved display on reloading.
- Fix of Save As window.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.150 (19 Nov 2025)
- Capitalisation function for imported word lists.
- Improved search settings for Concord
- Standardistation of folder settings.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.149 (25 Sept 2025)
- Minor Text Converter fix re XML simplification.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.148 (17 Sept 2025)
- Improved lemma handling.for KWs.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.147 (1 Sept 2025)
- Lemma handling.fix.
- Character Profiler fixes.
- Sorting tweaks.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.146 (26 Aug 2025)
- Improved lemma handling.
- minor tweaks.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.145 (27 July 2025)
- Improved tag file form.
- redesigned KW links and clusters
- fixed rightmost column glitch and minor tweaks.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.144 (09 July 2025)
- Fix for unsigned UTF8 getting interpreted as ANSI.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.143 (06 July 2025)
- Fix for Layout save function dialogue.
- Character Profiler column resizing caused resort : fixed.
- Improvements in layout generally & Help for it.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.142 (25 June 2025)
- Improvements to Minimal Pairs utilty.
- Fix for invalid BOM-marked UTF8 texts.
- Text Converter warning for mixed format texts selected.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.141 (23 June 2025)
- Fix: crash causing Concord or WordList to fail on anomalously-formatted texts.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.140 (15 June 2025)
- Fix: date issue in Text Converter.
- Minor tweaks.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.139 (17 Apr 2025)
- Fix: Filename heading hint crash, MWU processing in Concord.
- Improved: setting file-dates (File Utilities).
- Improved: timeline and plot resizing.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.138 (31 Mar 2025)
- New: easier move concordance left or right.
- Fix: Concord collocate relationships, Concord save to Excel in separate columns, Concord occasional crash.
- Improved: multi-word-unit handling in Text Converter
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.137 (25 Feb 2025)
- Fix for plotting issue.
- Fix: move concordance left or right,
- "tagstring only tags" reinstated.
- Tag colouring tweaks, Tag display format fix.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.136 (11 Feb 2025)
- Fix for folder search.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.135 (5 Feb 2025)
- Word count filter process perfected.
- Concord plots uniform plot feature restored.
- Timeline sorts implemented.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.134 (20 Jan 2025)
- Timelines redone.
- KWs sort on BIC scores fix.
- Fix for Concord plots with multiple search-words
- New: Concord Swap left and right sorts
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.132 (3 Oct)
- Font size fix
- File Utilities: improvements to filename characters procedure.
- File Viewer improvements.
- Help system improvements on mark-up.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.131 (23 Sept)
- Popup menu for Corpus Checker Report function improvements.
- WordList tag display fixes.
- Help system improvements on mark-up (more needed)
- Font size fix.
- Text Converter feedback improvements.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.130 (18 Sept)
- New: save key word list as a word list.
- Hints & menu improved.
- Detailed Consistency format mprovements. Detailed Consistency can also read KW lists.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.129 (17 Aug)
- KWs added to the list in source text view.
- Improved context and exclusion seaches in Concord.
- Minimal pairs -- lots of improvements
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.128 (18 July)
- fixed grid selection issue.
- improved handling of larger fonts.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.127 (13 July)
- improved Concord duplicates check.
- improved Language chooser.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.126 (3 July)
- added Help to counting file data.
- fixed system beeps on pressing <Enter>.
- Find Files function for text files now available in main menu.
- fixed choosing files by file extension issue.
- Help system updates, see What's New
9.0.0.100 (12 Jan 2024)
- Launch of WordSmith 9.
- Help system updates, see What's New