Writing actions across macOS apps
Writers Brew is an AI writing assistant that works around the text editor already in use. Highlight text in a native app, browser, or Electron app, then invoke a command from its Spotlight-like interface, menu bar, full app, or a keyboard shortcut. Its built-in actions cover rewriting, explaining, summarizing, translating, and drafting replies, while custom presets let users save their own prompt instructions.
More than prompt execution
The official site combines AI features with non-AI text utilities and snippet expansion. Utilities handle operations such as finding and replacing text, adding prefixes or suffixes, extracting email addresses or URLs, sorting lines, and changing case. Snippets can include live placeholders for the date, time, day, or clipboard, plus custom placeholders that open as a small form before insertion.
- Start with more than 30 AI writing tools or build a personal preset.
- Translate selected text across more than 15 languages.
- Extract text from an image with OCR, then transform it with an AI action.
- Trigger actions through keyboard shortcuts, Raycast, or PopClip integration.
- Use a personal OpenAI API key for AI-backed commands.
Where it fits
Writers Brew keeps editing close to the original document. It is useful when the desired result should return to Notes, Mail, a browser editor, or another Mac text field, while snippets and deterministic utilities cover repetitive text work that does not require an AI model.