AI actoins,
rigth where you need them.

Fix, translate, or summarize text in any app — with one hotkey.

How it works

Three steps. Zero context switching.

Select

Highlight text in any app — editor, browser, PDF, chat. Or grab a screenshot of anything on screen.

Press the hotkey

One keystroke pops the action menu next to your selection or captures a region of the screen — both fully configurable in Preferences.

Done

Editable text is rewritten in place. Read-only content shows the result in a floating panel, copied to your clipboard.

Features

One hotkey, every app.

Rewrite in place

Fix grammar, change tone, translate — the selected text is replaced directly where it lives.

Analyze anything

Summarize, explain, or extract action items from web pages, PDFs, and other read-only text.

Screenshot AI

Capture any region and extract its text, describe it, or translate it with vision models.

Custom prompts

Your workflows, your words. Add any action with a custom system prompt — as many as you need.

🎯 Make it shorter 🌐 Translate to French 📋 Extract to-dos 😄 Add some humor 🔥 Make it punchy 🔍 Proofread carefully 📧 Formal email tone 💼 Executive summary 🎯 Make it shorter 🌐 Translate to French 📋 Extract to-dos 😄 Add some humor 🔥 Make it punchy 🔍 Proofread carefully 📧 Formal email tone 💼 Executive summary

🧒 Explain like I'm 5 ⚡ Tweet-size it 🎭 Rewrite as dialogue 📊 Add bullet points 🎓 Academic tone 🌙 Casual and friendly 💡 Add an example 🏃 Make it urgent 🧒 Explain like I'm 5 ⚡ Tweet-size it 🎭 Rewrite as dialogue 📊 Add bullet points 🎓 Academic tone 🌙 Casual and friendly 💡 Add an example 🏃 Make it urgent

Pricing

Free for tinkerers. Effortless for everyone else.

Open source

Build it yourself

macOS

Free forever · MIT

All features, no limits
Bring your own OpenAI key
Audit every line of code

Build from source

Coming soon

Quill Cloud

macOS Windows iPhone Android

Download, double-click, done

Signed app — no Xcode, no setup
No API key needed — credits included
Automatic updates

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Privacy

Your data never takes a detour.

Quill is a native menu-bar app with no backend of its own. Audit every line on GitHub.

No middleman servers. Text goes directly from your Mac to the AI provider.

Keychain storage. Your API key lives in the macOS Keychain, never in plain text.

No telemetry. Nothing is collected, tracked, or phoned home.

Clipboard respected. The clipboard fallback backs up and restores your clipboard automatically.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Do I need an OpenAI account?

Today, yes — Quill uses your own API key. Quill Cloud (coming soon) will include credits, so you can download and start without any setup.

Why does Quill need Accessibility permission?

It's how Quill reads your selected text and replaces it in place. The permission is granted once in System Settings, and the code that uses it is open for inspection.

Which apps does it work in?

Nearly all of them — Quill uses the macOS Accessibility API with a clipboard fallback:

App	Read selection	Rewrite in place
TextEdit, Notes, native apps	Full	Yes
Safari, Preview (PDF)	Full	Result panel
Chrome, Electron apps	Clipboard fallback	Result panel

Can I use other models?

The text and vision models are configurable. Support for other providers and local models is on the roadmap.

Was the headline demo calling an API?

No — the demo on this page is scripted to show the interaction. The real app sends your selection to the model you configure.

Stop copy-pasting into chatbots.

Free, open source, and yours to audit.

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