Edyt

Edyt is a lightweight desktop app for Mac and Windows that adds AI actions to any text field. You select text, press a shortcut, and the result appears in place, right where your cursor is. It is aimed at anyone who writes across many different programs each day, such as email clients, browsers, notes apps, and chat apps. The available actions are Rewrite, Proofread, Alternatives, Explain, Translate, and Use Prompt, and the product positions itself as AI that lives right where you write. A free plan is described as enough for most people, while Pro removes the usage limits. Writing rarely stays inside one application. A reply is drafted in email, a paragraph is tightened in a document, a question is answered in a chat window, and a contract arrives as a PDF. Conventional AI tools and grammar checkers require copying text out, switching windows, and pasting results back. Edyt is built around avoiding all of that: the site describes selecting text in any app with no copying and no switching windows. The developers also argue their approach beats a traditional proofreader in specific ways, saying Edyt does better at explaining text, sounding like you, offering a genuinely free tier, working in every app on a Mac, and staying out of your way. There is a further gap the product targets: text you cannot even select, such as a PDF, a screenshot, or a shared screen. Rewrite polishes tone, grammar, and clarity in place, and the listing adds that Rewrite keeps your tone and follows your instructions. Proofread is built for catching mistakes thoroughly. Select the text, press Control+Shift+H, and every issue is flagged in place and grouped by kind on the left. The down arrow moves between issues and Enter fixes one; you can also fix them all at once. The text stays editable, so you can type and then re-check to catch anything new, and Insert pastes the result back in, formatted, right where it came from. The demo shows a correctness control, an ignore option, and an easy-to-read word count as the changes are reviewed. Alternatives answers the question of how else to phrase something. Select the text, press Control+Shift+L, and Edyt suggests options, listing several ways to say the same thing. If none of them fit, Show another produces a genuinely new one, never a repeat. You move between options with the down arrow and press Enter to open Insert or Copy, so a suggestion can go straight into the app or onto the clipboard. Explain takes the opposite direction and focuses on understanding. Press Control+Shift+X and definitions appear on the left with the explanation on the right. You can ask a follow-up question, which keeps the conversation going, so an explanation can deepen as far as you need. The site sums both up with the lines See it several ways and Understand instantly. Translate handles messages written in other languages. Select the message, press Control+Shift+T, and the meaning is rendered in your own language; select it again with the same shortcut and choose their language to reply. Insert drops the translation into the reply box and you send it. Recent languages are shown for quick switching, and you can ask how to adjust a translation if the wording is not quite right, which is useful for client conversations where precision matters. Use Prompt runs your own saved prompts on anything you select. Press Control+Shift+J and Edyt runs your last prompt right away, or you pick another prompt from the list on the left. Personalized prompts remember how you like things phrased, you can ask follow-up questions to refine the result, and Insert drops it straight into the document with no retyping. The listing adds that saved prompts follow your account to every machine. Not all text can be selected. Edyt's screen reading mode covers that case: hold Option on Mac or Alt on Windows and drag over a PDF, a screenshot, or a shared screen. Edyt reads the text on your device, using Apple's built-in recognition on Mac and the built-in Windows OCR on Windows, so the image never leaves your device. On Mac this uses the Screen Recording permission, only to capture the area you drag; Windows asks for no extra permission. Once the text is read, the same actions apply, so you can explain, proofread, translate, or run a prompt. In one demo a lease agreement PDF is dragged over and an automatic renewal clause is explained in plain language, including the 60 days' written notice requirement, followed by a direct question about the deadline. Edyt's workflow is described in three steps. First you select your text by highlighting anything in any app, such as email, docs, or chats, without copying or switching windows. Second, you press Control+Shift+Space to bring up the toolbar and pick the action you want. Third, Edyt calls the AI and drops the result right where your cursor is, described as instant and in place. Each action also has its own shortcut for speed: Control+Shift+C for Rewrite, Control+Shift+H for Proofread, Control+Shift+L for Alternatives, Control+Shift+X for Explain, Control+Shift+T for Translate, and Control+Shift+J for Use Prompt. Every action's shortcut can be remapped, and you can write your own prompts and organize them in your library from your dashboard. The stated benefits follow from that design. Results land where the cursor is, so there is nothing to copy and no window to switch to. Rewrite keeps your tone while it cleans up grammar and clarity, which matters when the writing has to still sound like you. Alternatives produces phrasing better than what you typed without you having to hunt for it yourself. Explain and Translate go as deep as you ask, because each result can be followed up with another question. Proofread can fix every issue at once or one at a time, in text that remains editable. Use Prompt turns your own preferences into reusable instructions, and saved prompts follow your account to every machine you use. The demos on the site map onto everyday tasks. In a chat, someone asks a colleague to look over an email to a client because the grammar is a mess; Edyt fixes it in seconds. Another demo proofreads an essay saved as Reflections.docx, flagging repeated words and awkward phrasing in place while the writer keeps editing. A third shows a client email being reworded several ways before it is sent. In a messaging app, a Spanish message about billing terms and an auto-renewal clause is translated so it can be answered in English. A lease agreement PDF is dragged over to explain an automatic renewal clause and its notice deadline. And in a document editor, a saved prompt rewrites a weekly sync announcement into tighter, more focused wording. Edyt is for people who write in many apps rather than one: email, documents, chats, and browsers, on Mac and Windows. On Mac it runs on macOS 12.3 (Monterey) or later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel. On Windows it runs on Windows 10 or later, 64-bit, currently as a beta, and the Product Hunt listing notes Ubuntu is next. It works inside any app with an editable text field. The free plan includes generous daily, weekly, and monthly usage with no credit card required, and Pro removes the limits for unlimited use. Edyt is not on the Mac App Store because reading and typing text in other apps needs macOS's Accessibility API, which does not work inside the App Store sandbox, so it is distributed directly from the site, signed and notarized by Apple. Privacy is stated plainly. Your text is sent over an encrypted connection for processing and then discarded; Edyt says it never stores it, logs it, or uses it to train AI models, with details on a Security page. The screen reading feature is handled on the device itself, so images never leave it. The footer repeats the same commitments: signed on Mac and Windows, your text is never stored, and never used to train AI models. Edyt's proposition is narrow and clear: AI for text, wherever it happens to live. By putting Rewrite, Proofread, Alternatives, Explain, Translate, and your own saved prompts behind a single shortcut inside any app, and by adding on-device reading for text that cannot be selected at all, it removes the copying, window switching, and friction that usually sit between you and a finished sentence.