Spelling only
Spelling, accents and punctuation. It doesn't touch a single word you chose.
For macOS 26
Rewrite what you select, in your own voice, in any app.
Select some text — a Teams message, an e-mail, a note — and press ⌃⌥R. Quill shows you how it would read for whoever is going to read it, and ↵ swaps it in right where you were typing.
Free and open source. No account: your text only goes to the model you choose.
Message to Sam
hey sam, just fyi the report wont be ready by friday bc were still missing the sales numbers, do u have them or should i ask alex? sorry for the mess lol
Work
Hi Sam, the report won't be ready by Friday because we're still missing the sales numbers. Do you have them, or should I ask Alex? Sorry for the mess.
Gemini 3.8 Flash · Works well
⌘CCopy⌘ECorrect
Pick a profile or press ↵. Sample results: the real one depends on the model.
How it works
Select, one key, done
- 01
Select
Where you write: Teams, Mail, Notes, TextEdit… If it can't read the selection directly, it copies it. And on what you can't edit, it leaves the result ready to copy.
- 02
Press ⌃⌥R
The picker appears next to the text, already rewriting with that app's profile or the last one you used. Switch profiles with 1…9 or type what you want.
- 03
Press ↵
The text is replaced where it was. Or copy it with ⌘C, or correct it with ⌘E first.
Profiles
A voice for every reader
How to rewrite depends on who will read it. Quill comes with six profiles, and you can make your own, tune them with examples, try them on saved texts and give each app its own: “in Teams, Work”.
Work
Clear and cordial: splits run-on sentences, drops filler and leaves technical terms as they are.
Formal
For clients, landlords or lawyers: formal register, no slang, and no invented dates or obligations.
Friends
Fixes the typos and keeps the slang, the laughter and the emoji. Still sounds like you.
Clean up dictation
Removes the ums, repetitions and false starts of what you dictated, and adds the punctuation.
Concise
Cuts the detours and padding, and keeps every fact, request and nuance.
Or whatever you ask
Type “shorter”, “in Spanish” or “warmer” in the picker and press ↵.
Models
You choose who rewrites
Quill doesn't ship a model and has no server. It uses the one your Mac already has or yours, with your own key, and tells you what each one does well before you choose it.
Apple Intelligence
On your Mac, if it has it: free and private, for short texts.
OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway
Hundreds of models from many vendors with a single key.
OpenAI
Direct, with your API key.
Your own server
Anything OpenAI-compatible, such as Ollama or LM Studio on your network.
Measured, not guessed
Each model carries a label per profile, taken from a bench of real cases anyone can run again. Today, Gemini 3.8 Flash works well on every built-in profile; Apple's model doesn't yet.
- Works well
- May need review
- Not recommended
Why Quill
It changes how you say it, never what you say.
Before you can apply a result, Quill checks it: names, numbers, links and emoji must still be there, and it flags anything your text didn't say — a figure, a date, a greeting, a sign-off. A flagged result tells you why, and it is never applied without you seeing it.
Privacy
Your text goes where you say, and nowhere else.
Quill has no server, no account and no telemetry.
Only to the model you choose
And only when you ask for a rewrite. The first time text goes to a cloud provider, Quill tells you who will receive it before sending anything.
Keys in the Keychain
Your API keys are stored in the macOS Keychain. Release builds write none of your text to any log.
It never reads passwords
Password fields are left alone: Quill never reads them.
With the keyboard
Without leaving the keyboard
Everything works with keys, and everything with the pointer too. The shortcut can be changed.
- ⌃ ⌥ R
- Rewrite the selection
- 1…9
- Switch profile
- ↵
- Replace the text
- ⌘ C
- Copy the result
- ⌘ E
- Correct the result
- ⌘ D
- Show the changes
- ⌘ R
- Another version
- esc
- Close without changing anything
Also from the contextual menu: Services › Rewrite with Quill.
Install
Three steps, a minute
- 01
Download Quill, open the DMG and drag Quill onto Applications.
- 02
Open it. A short walkthrough asks for the Accessibility permission, which is what lets it read the selection and replace it, and helps you choose the model.
- 03
Select text in any app and press ⌃⌥R.
- Version
- 1.0.2
- Size
- 3.3 MB
- Requirements
- macOS 26 or later
- Processor
- Apple Silicon
- Languages
- Spanish and English
- Licence
- MIT, open source
- Distribution
- Outside the Mac App Store, signed and notarized
Write the way you talk. Send it the way you want to sound.
No account, no subscription, no server. With your Mac's own model, or with yours.
It's free and it'll stay that way. If it saves you time, you can leave a tip.