Productivity
Word42
Last updated 2026-09-04 · benchmark measured 2026-09-04 — deterministic & reproducible
Word42 is a classic-style word processor built from scratch in C on GTK 4.
Is Word42 production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Word42 67 out of 100 — the simple average of its 5 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Word42 (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. 5 of the seven frames returned a score; Performance and Accessibility were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Security — 25/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- Reliability — 92/100
- Standards — 75/100
- Discoverability — 75/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 73 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who it's for
Writers · Document creators · Users needing classic word processing · Linux/macOS/Windows users
Pricing
Free (GPL-3.0-or-later open source)
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