ToneBird

ToneBird is a socially fluent AI reply assistant for Mac and Windows that helps you answer messages without getting stuck on words. It understands your relationships, what you have already said, and where you left off, then drafts the next reply in your voice directly inside Gmail, Slack, WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord, WeChat, Lark, Google Chat, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Instagram and other apps you already type in. Instead of leaving the conversation, building a giant prompt, explaining the backstory and bringing the output back, ToneBird works beside the reply box. You open a reply, choose the wording that fits, tweak it if needed, and insert it into the conversation before reviewing and sending it yourself. Replying well sounds simple until context is involved. A client asks for the price you agreed on weeks ago, your manager asks for an update on something that already slipped once, or a customer pushes back on a renewal increase you have discussed before. A good answer depends on the relationship, the history and the commitments, and the apps people type in rarely keep that context available at the moment of writing. Generic AI assistants can produce fluent text, but they start from a blank page, so the person writing has to re-explain who they are talking to and what happened previously. ToneBird is built on the idea that the right reply starts with the context, and that the context already lives in your conversations and your files. Relationship memory is the core of the product. ToneBird uses your earlier conversations when drafting a reply, including the date you promised to confirm or the request a person made after a deadline slipped. It also pulls in facts from your files: when a client asks for the agreed price, ToneBird can find it in your connected proposal and include it in the draft. The interface shows a "Knowledge Recalled" panel, so you can see what the assistant remembered for that specific reply, such as a checkpoint that was requested, a scope change from last quarter, or a previously reported issue. You retain control over what is kept: facts and writing preferences learned from the conversation are surfaced for review, and you choose what to save. ToneBird also adapts wording to the person you are replying to. A client waiting on a deadline needs a different reply from a teammate checking in, and the assistant uses your past conversations with each person to adjust the phrasing. For any message, ToneBird can produce several options so you can compare three replies, then tweak the one you want before inserting it. Tweak controls include More Precise, Warmer and Add Humor, and there are context switches for Internal or external replies plus sliders for Directness, Formality and Warmth. Saved preferences such as "keep replies concise" carry into later conversations, so you skip the introduction and start from your own style. ToneBird is designed to follow you across apps and languages rather than pulling you into another tool. It works beside readable reply fields in apps such as Gmail, Slack, WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord, WeChat, Lark and X. When a message arrives in another language, ToneBird can draft the reply and show a translation, as in the example where a customer writes in Spanish and the assistant produces a Spanish answer with an English translation underneath. Beyond replying, ToneBird turns the conversation into follow-up work: when you and another person agree on a time, it prepares the event in Apple Calendar or Google Calendar from your chat, and a follow-up list gathers promised quotes, unanswered questions and dates to confirm in one place, marked by the app they came from. ToneBird also lists English, Español, 中文 and 日本語 among its available languages. The overall workflow is deliberately short. You click the orb, or press Option twice on Mac or Ctrl twice on Windows, while you are in a reply field. ToneBird reads the thread, recalls relevant context from your relationships and files, and shows suggestions; you click the arrows or use the left and right arrow keys to move between replies, tweak the wording, and then insert it into the reply box. Inserting is not sending. ToneBird does not send messages for you: the draft goes into the reply box, and you review it and use the app's own send button, so the final decision always stays with you. The benefits follow from that approach. You do not have to be stuck on words again, and you do not have to postpone a reply because you cannot face reconstructing the context. Promises, prices and dates that would otherwise require digging through old threads or documents are brought forward automatically, which reduces the risk of contradicting yourself or repeating an issue that was already raised. Because the assistant keeps your voice intact rather than making every reply sound generically "better", the person on the other side of the conversation experiences a consistent version of you, whether they are a customer, a manager or a teammate. Follow-ups that would normally be forgotten become visible tasks, and scheduling happens from the conversation itself instead of in a separate calendar app. Concrete scenarios show how this plays out. In Slack, a manager asks for a launch plan by Friday after a previous slip; ToneBird drafts a reply that commits to a core plan by Friday with a checkpoint later that day. In WhatsApp, a customer says a renewal increase is hard to approve; ToneBird recalls that the scope changed last quarter and drafts a reply that offers to work through the renewal over coffee near the customer's office, with proposed times. In Gmail, a customer writes in Spanish about a repeated export problem; ToneBird drafts a Spanish reply apologising and committing to check workspace permissions and send findings before 4 PM, with an English translation. When the customer later confirms Thursday at 4, ToneBird prepares a 30-minute proposal review event that can be added to Apple Calendar or Google Calendar, and the resulting task list reminds you to send a revised quote or confirm a delivery date. ToneBird is for people whose work happens in email and chat apps, including customer-facing and sales conversations, client renewals, manager and teammate updates, and anyone who needs to reply across several apps and sometimes several languages in the same day. It runs as a downloadable app for Mac and Windows, chosen on the download page, and it works beside readable reply fields in supported apps, though support depends on the app and some fields may not be readable. Your tone profile, person cards, learned corrections and usage counts live on your device, and you can export or delete them any time in Settings. On data handling, the model provider receives the context and instructions needed for your reply: with a managed model ToneBird forwards the request, and with your own model key writing requests go directly to that provider. Pricing starts free, and scales through Standard at $9.90 per month with 100 uses every day and 100 contacts, Pro at $39.90 per month with 1,000 uses every day and 1,000 contacts, and Enterprise with custom pricing for your team; billing is monthly or annual, with about 20 percent saved annually. ToneBird's primary value is that it turns the context you already have into the reply you need next. It remembers your relationships, retrieves relevant facts from past conversations and connected documents, adapts the wording to the person and keeps your voice intact, all inside the apps where the conversation is already happening. You pick a suggestion, tweak it, insert it, and send it yourself. Free to start and with room to grow, ToneBird is aimed at anyone who wants to stop being stuck on words without handing over control of what gets sent.