Unifyl — a dual-pane file manager for macOS
How to open HWP / HWPX files on a Mac — without Hancom Office
HWP and HWPX are the document formats of Hancom Office — the de-facto standard for Korean government paperwork, grant applications, and official forms. If a Korean partner just sent you one, macOS has no idea what to do with it, and installing a paid office suite to read a single attachment is overkill.
Your options
- Hancom Office / Hancom Docs — the real thing; needed if you must edit. Paid, account required.
- Online converter sites — they work, but you're uploading someone's document to an unknown server. Don't do this with business or government paperwork.
- Unifyl (this site) — free inline preview of HWPX right in the file manager: no Hancom install, no upload, the document never leaves your Mac.
Reading an HWPX in Unifyl
- Download Unifyl (free — HWPX preview is a free-tier feature).
- Navigate to the file and open the preview: the document body renders inline.
- Arrow through a whole folder of forms, previewing each — this is a file manager, so triage is the point.
HWPX is an XML-based format; Unifyl parses the document structure directly, on-device.
Honest limits: this is a reader. Complex tables and
layout may render simplified, and the older binary .hwp format is not previewed —
HWPX only. For editing, or for binary HWP, Hancom's own tools are the answer.
Bonus for Korean-file workflows: Unifyl also opens Korea's ALZ archives and repairs garbled Korean filenames — the three problems tend to arrive in the same email.
Download Unifyl free