Without DocGress
- Your goal lives in a separate app
- You keep checking word count manually
- Long drafts feel like they are going nowhere
- Your setup disappears when you change documents
More context switching. Less writing.
Stop guessing if you're making progress. Watch it happen.
DocGress turns invisible writing progress into live, motivating goals right inside Google Docs. No new editor. No broken focus.
Free to use. Set up in under a minute.
A blank page is only intimidating until the first sentence lands. This draft is becoming a practical guide to building a writing habit that survives busy weeks.
The goal is simple: make progress visible, keep the feedback immediate, and finish one focused section at a time. Edit this text and watch every DocGress goal update as you type.
The difference
Writing tools track the document. DocGress tracks your momentum.
With DocGress
- Goals stay visible while you type
- Progress updates in real time
- Every document remembers its own targets
- Milestones feel clear, immediate, and finishable
One document. One focus. Visible progress.
Features
Set the target. Stay in flow. Finish the draft.
Track the metric that matters to this draft.
Set up to four goals for words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, or reading time.
Words
69%
Sentences
33%
Characters
75%
See every sentence move the work forward.
Your progress responds live as you type. When a goal reaches 100%, DocGress marks the moment with a celebration.
Leave the doc. Come back exactly where you were.
Goals are tied to each Google Doc and saved locally, so every project keeps its own context.
Carry your goals across devices.
Sign in with Google to sync your goal setup and keep your writing progress available wherever you work.
“The best writing tool is the one that helps you keep writing.”
DocGress stays out of the way until progress is exactly what you need.
FAQ
A few things you might want to know.
Yes. You can install DocGress from the Chrome Web Store and use its writing goal tools for free.
No. DocGress works directly inside Google Docs, adding goals and live progress without asking you to move your writing elsewhere.
You can create goals for words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and reading time, with up to four active goals at a time.
Yes. Goals are remembered per document. Google sign-in also enables syncing across devices.