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June 16, 2026

Writing

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Make AI sound like you, in every app

The tell of AI writing isn't bad grammar. It's sameness.

You can usually feel when something has been run through a model. Not because it's wrong, but because it's smooth in a way that isn't yours. The "professional" setting sands off your edges. The "friendly" setting adds an exclamation point you'd never use. Every preset is a polite stranger's idea of how you should sound.

Most tools hand you that menu and stop. The writing tools built into macOS rewrite to friendly, professional, or concise. Other assistants suggest a tone from a fixed list. They're handy, right up until the three options aren't you.

The fix is a sentence, not a setting

Edyt replaces the dropdown with a text field. Instead of picking a tone someone else named, you describe yours, once:

Direct and warm. Short sentences. No corporate filler. Never use the word "delighted."

That's your Rewrite instruction. Out of the box, Rewrite only fixes spelling, grammar, and punctuation and keeps your words. Add a sentence about how you sound, and every press of the rewrite shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+C) polishes whatever you've selected in that tone, in whatever app you happen to be typing in. No prompt to retype, no tone to re-pick. Want a second voice, like one for client work? Save it as a prompt and pin it to the toolbar, or run it with the Prompts shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+J). See how it works

Writing one sentence about your voice in Rewrite's instruction, then rewriting in Slack and Gmail

Save the prompts you reach for

Rewrite handles the everyday edit. For everything else, there are custom prompts: named instructions you write once and run anywhere by shortcut. They're the saved instructions that preset tools simply don't have.

A few we keep within reach:

  • Tighten: "Cut this by a third without losing the meaning."
  • Reply, briefly: "Draft a short, friendly reply to this message."
  • Client-safe: "Rewrite to sound warm but formal, for an external client."
  • Notes → update: "Turn these rough notes into a tidy progress update."
  • Plain language: "Explain this like I'm smart, but not a specialist."

Select text, pick the prompt, and you're done, whether you're in email, docs, chat, code, or anywhere with an editable field. Pin up to ten of them to the toolbar so they're one click away.

If you'd rather not start from a blank page, the Prompt Library has ready-made ones like Friendlier, Shorter, and Politely Decline that you can copy and change. Build your set once and it's the same in Edyt Desktop and Edyt Web when you're signed in.

A voice you can only use sometimes isn't a voice

This is the part that decides whether any of it matters. A tone you have to abandon the moment you switch windows isn't your writing voice, it's a setting in one app. Edyt works in every editable field on your Mac or PC, so the voice you wrote down follows you into Slack, Notion, a CRM, and a web form without you thinking about it. Why it reaches everywhere

Preset tonesYour own prompt (Edyt)
How you set tonePick from a fixed listDescribe it in your words
ReuseRe-pick every timeSaved, one shortcut
Where it worksMostly native fieldsEvery editable field

Make it yours

Open the Toolbar page in the Edyt app, pick Rewrite, and write one sentence describing how you sound. Then highlight an email you've already sent and press Ctrl+Shift+C.

The fastest way to tell whether it worked is simple: it should read like you on a good day, not like a brand.

Try it on your own writing.

Free to download. Free to use. No credit card required.

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