Writing Apps

Write faster, cleaner and smarter across every app. Dictate text offline, translate instantly, refine grammar and tone with AI, expand snippets, clean formatting, extract text from images, manage emojis and symbols, automate text transformations, and keep everything flowing without breaking your focus.

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EnviousWispr

Fast, private AI dictation with offline transcription and text cleanup, turning spoken thoughts into polished writing across your favorite Mac apps, with no account or subscription.

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Comoji

Comoji brings Slack- and Discord-style emoji autocomplete to your Mac, with instant shortcuts plus searchable stickers and GIFs. Everything runs locally, keeping your favorite emojis and reactions fast, private, and within reach.

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Translate Like Me

Translate selected text instantly in any Mac app and make it sound like you. Supports multiple language pairs, global shortcuts, Claude, ChatGPT and Grok, with no telemetry.

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OpenClip

OpenClip adds a floating action bar to macOS, letting you instantly copy, calculate, transform, translate, or process selected text with AI, keyboard shortcuts, scripts, and over 100 customizable extensions.

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Vox

Vox provides private, on-device voice dictation that turns speech into polished text instantly. With AI-powered cleanup, custom modes, and no cloud processing, it makes writing faster and simpler — and keeps every word on your device.

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Rewrite

Rewrite helps you polish, rewrite, or draft text wherever you write. Improve emails, messages, essays, and more while keeping your own voice, with sensitive data masked locally on your Mac. Bring your own ChatGPT or Claude.

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Mojito

Mojito brings emoji shortcodes to every text field on your Mac. Type commands like :joy: to insert emojis instantly, with smart search, personalized suggestions, and a lightweight picker.

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DoD

DoD puts a fast, system-wide dictionary at your fingertips, letting you look up English and German words from anywhere with a keyboard shortcut. It works entirely offline, includes thesaurus support for English, and offers customizable themes to match your workflow and taste.

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BarDict

BarDict keeps dictionary lookups fast and fluid, combining multi-dictionary search with polished animations, trackpad gestures, and keyboard-first navigation.

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Petal

Petal is a dictation app that runs entirely on-device, supporting Qwen3 ASR and Voxtral alongside Whisper. With a simple push-to-talk workflow and optional Smart Mode that cleans up filler words into polished prose, it keeps everything local, transparent, and subscription-free.

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