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Writing Tools for Mac

System-wide AI writing assistant for grammar and style improvements.

By theJayTea. Free and open source, GPL-3.0 licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Writing Tools at a glance

Version
9-mac_OS_v6.1
Released
10 May 2026
Download size
29 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
GPL-3.0
Category
Artificial Intelligence
Developer
theJayTea
GitHub stars
2.5K

About Writing Tools

The world's smartest system-wide grammar assistant; a better version of the Apple Intelligence Writing Tools. Works on Windows, Linux, & macOS, with the free Gemini API, local LLMs, & more.

Screenshots

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How to install Writing Tools on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Writing Tools and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 9-mac_OS_v6.1 from theJayTea's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Writing Tools show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Writing.Tools.macOS.v6.1.zip (29 MB).

What is new in Writing Tools 9-mac_OS_v6.1

# 🪟 Release notes for the Windows version (🆕v9):

**- Changes to the default Gemini/Gemma model options:**
 - Added support for the Gemma 4 series as an option!
 - Uses `Gemini Flash Lite Latest` as the new default model, because at least right now, Gemma 4 is *really* slow on Google's end -- at least for the free API. Might get better in the future!

- **Per-button hotkeys! Finally :D** *(click the "Edit" icon at the top left of the pop-up to tweak the buttons!)*
 You can now set Proofread to **ctrl+`** or **ctrl+j**, and have it instantly proofread after you select text :)

- **Significantly improved stability on all PCs!**
 *Fixes #218 and #217 (and more; will clean up issues later)*

- The Writing Tools pop-up now shows up **significantly faster**

- Deprecated the "Chat with your AI" pop-up that showed when no text was selected.

### ➡️ You simply need to drag and drop the new `Writing Tools.exe` to replace your old one :)

### Known Issues:
1. On some devices, Writing Tools may not work correctly with the default hotkey.
 To fix it, simply change the default **ctrl+space** hotkey to **ctrl+`** or **ctrl+j** and restart Writing Tools.
 PS: If a hotkey is already in use by a program or background process, Writing Tools may not be able to intercept it. The above hotkeys are usually unused.
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