writing Tools

Thoughts is a menubar app for your Mac which helps you keep notes quickly using text, images and voice. Add your favorite agent API key and it'll also help transcribe audio, context images to text and help do simple text-tranforms like capitalization, translations and spelling fixes. Think of it as a fun small multi-tool for your menubar.

Every other AI writes what you tell it. Ghostwriter writes what you already know. Double-tap Left Ctrl in any text field, in any app, and the reply is there — drawn from the thread on screen, your calendar, your files and your past meetings, indexed in an encrypted vault on your PC. It won't double-book you, and it matches how you write to that person, down to the sign-off. Then it stops: it types into the box and never sends. Windows.

Marked Share is a subproduct of Marked 3, but doesn't require Marked to use. It's a free way to share Markdown and TextBundle documents with images and attachments, allow others to highlight and comment on them, and can even publish "blog" feeds with RSS/Atom and Micro.blog integration. Built in editor, or a full API for integrating with your favorite editor/tool.

Trancy Air is a shortcut-driven translator that sits ready on macOS and Windows. In any app: select what you can't read and it's translated; write in your own language and one key swaps it to another; too lazy to type, just talk. It also catches mistakes, polishes wording, reads text aloud and scores your pronunciation.

Write, structure, and publish technical documentation in a visual editor with Markdown mode, AI-assisted edits, reusable components, and version history.

Every entry you write today locks at the time that you configured — 8pm by default. Once it locks, that's it: no editing, no rewriting history, no quietly polishing what you actually felt in the moment. Just an honest, raw, and unfiltered record of your day. Entries sync across your devices with your own private iCloud and never with a first/third-party server. When typing is not enough, record a squope (square video) or an audio note. at8pm is free to download (up to 2 entries per day).

Fix spelling and grammar anywhere on your Mac. Select text, press the shortcut, and the corrected version replaces it where it sits. A second shortcut strips the AI slop out of anything that reads like a machine wrote it. @Mentions, dates and times are untouched. It runs on the model built into macOS. Nothing you select is uploaded. Needs macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence.

Murfy is a team of AI agents for the entire research writing workflow. Murfy helps to write and review your paper in context, fix LaTeX compile errors on the spot, verify reference papers and generate Beamer slides in minutes. Work with unlimited collaborators, real-time editing, free to start.

NEO was created after using lots of writing tools and never quite finding "the one." NEO doesn't try to do everything; it just wants you to get that rough draft written. Distraction free, minimal UI, see all your WIPs in one place, and most importantly, it formats your manuscripts to look like a book while you write. All you need for formatting is the Enter key. NEO does the rest.

We tried to do the impossible. A text editor with clutter-free UI while being a text-editing workhorse. With a publishing platform to go with it. And voice support like you haven't seen before.

Marble now ships an MCP server, letting you manage your CMS content directly from AI coding tools like Claude, Cursor, and Codex. Create posts, update content, and manage media without leaving your editor or terminal.

Paste any text and see every trace a chat interface left in it: hidden HTML class names, zero-width characters, exotic spaces, typography. Each finding has a count and a position, because these are facts about the bytes, not a probability score. Clean it in one click. Free, unlimited, no account, runs in your browser so nothing is uploaded. It does not claim to detect Anthropic's statistical watermark, because nobody outside Anthropic can. The engine is MIT open source.

Paste any text and see every trace a chat interface left in it: hidden HTML class names, zero-width characters, exotic spaces, typography. Each finding has a count and a position, because these are facts about the bytes, not a probability score. Clean it in one click. Free, unlimited, no account, runs in your browser so nothing is uploaded. It does not claim to detect Anthropic's statistical watermark, because nobody outside Anthropic can. The engine is MIT open source.

Skriptr is the AI workspace for students, helping with research, writing, and learning. Skriptr reads your sources, shows the exact page behind every answer, and asks questions back. It work with you, not for you. The thinking stays yours.

AdmitRaven is a college counselor in your pocket for a fraction of the cost. It walks students through the entire application journey in daily, bite-sized lessons, and blocks doomscrolling until you finish them. It helps you craft authentic, compelling essays, stay on top of every deadline and requirement, and match to the right schools and scholarships. You can even read real admitted students' essays from your dream school, and ask them questions directly.

Typen is a fast hosted blogging platform with customizable colors and typography, RSS, sitemaps, automatic SEO and JSON-LD, Markdown versions of posts, and optional custom domains.

Hold a shortcut and dictate into any Mac app without sending audio to the cloud. Zen Whisper keeps core speech recognition on-device, with local models, searchable transcripts, voice memos, media transcription, and Pro tools for larger models and translation.

EssayKraft is a native Swift Mac and iPad writing app built for students who are tired of wrestling with reference managers. Write essays, papers and dissertations with a built-in reference manager, automatic citations, rich text formatting and PDF or DOCX export, all in one place. No subscriptions, no accounts, no juggling citation tools. Just a fast, distraction-free writing experience designed specifically for academic work. Buy once, own it forever.

Pinery is the self-publishing studio for Mac. 2.0 adds Prose, an AI co-author that works from the pages you've already written — every edit arrives as a diff you accept or reject. Write, design, and export ePub 3 or PDF. Your files stay plain Markdown.

A free macOS and iOS app that turns your voice into structured markdown using local LLM. Global dictation anywhere with ⌘⌥], live markdown editor with on-the-fly fix with LLM. No cloud, no API keys — nothing leaves your Mac.

Most AI book services work like a black box. Your content goes in, a manuscript comes out, and you hope it sounds like you. We thought creators deserved more than hope. The Source Map color-codes every paragraph in your manuscript: your original words from newsletters, podcasts, and posts alongside the connective tissue Prosed added to bridge your ideas together. Today, over 90% of each book we assembled is the creator's own words. Now you can see that for yourself.