MYW Converter

Extract text from MyWord documents (MYW)


Drop or upload your .MYW file
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How to extract text from your MYW file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MYW file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert MYW to another file type

To convert MYW documents to another format, you need Apple Pages or other Text software.

Convert a file to MYW

To convert other file formats to the "macOS Text Document" file type, you need software like Apple Pages or a similar tool.


About MYW files

A .myw file is most commonly a MyWord or MyWorks word processing document utilized within the macOS ecosystem. Alternatively, it serves as a proprietary quest or save data file for video games such as Myth of Soma, The Witcher 3, and My Time at Portia. The document variant is typically handled by Apple Pages or legacy macOS word processors. The main disadvantage of the .myw format is its rigid ecosystem lock-in. Document versions require an Apple device to open natively, frustrating Windows and Linux users. Game data versions are closed, binary, and restricted exclusively to the specific game engine that generated them. For document sharing, immediately convert the .myw file to PDF or DOCX. You may lose proprietary layout settings or macros, but the core text will survive. Game files should not be converted, as altering their structure breaks in-game functionality. Because .myw encompasses both text documents and closed game binaries, standard online converters often fail to process it. Just drag and drop your file into convert.guru to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Fortunately, the macOS document version often uses an internal RTF (Rich Text Format) structure. Our analysis tool detects this embedded format, allowing you to extract and convert the text without needing the original software or an expensive hardware ecosystem.

Convert.Guru analyzes your MYW file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted DOCS, PAGES and UNDEFINED files.


FAQ

If you want to convert MYW file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Apple Pages or similar software from the "Word Processing Document" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to MYW, try Apple Pages or another comparable tool in the "Word Processing Document" category.



The MYW Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our MYW converter.