Make AI sound like you, in every app on your Mac
June 16, 2026
The tell of AI writing isn't bad grammar. It's sameness.
You can usually feel when something has been run through a model. Not because it's wrong, but because it's smooth in a way that isn't yours. The "professional" setting sands off your edges. The "friendly" setting adds an exclamation point you'd never use. Every preset is a polite stranger's idea of how you should sound.
Most tools hand you that menu and stop. The writing tools built into macOS rewrite to friendly, professional, or concise. Other assistants suggest a tone from a fixed list. They're handy, right up until the three options aren't you.
The fix is a sentence, not a setting
Edyt replaces the dropdown with a text field. Instead of picking a tone someone else named, you describe yours, once:
Direct and warm. Short sentences. No corporate filler. Never use the word "delighted."
That's Your Voice. Set it a single time, and every press of the rewrite shortcut (⌃⇧C) polishes whatever you've selected in exactly that tone, in whatever app you happen to be typing in. No prompt to retype, no tone to re-pick. Keep one voice for client-facing work and a looser one for everything else, and switch in a click. See how it works →
Save the prompts you reach for
Your Voice handles the everyday rewrite. For everything else, there are recipes: named prompts you write once and run anywhere by shortcut. They're the saved instructions that preset tools simply don't have.
A few we keep within reach:
- Tighten: "Cut this by a third without losing the meaning."
- Reply, briefly: "Draft a short, friendly reply to this message."
- Client-safe: "Rewrite to sound warm but formal, for an external client."
- Notes → update: "Turn these rough notes into a tidy progress update."
- Plain language: "Explain this like I'm smart, but not a specialist."
Select text, pick the recipe, and you're done, whether you're in email, docs, chat, code, or anywhere with an editable field. Build the library once and it syncs across your devices.
Why "every app" is the whole point
A custom voice isn't worth much if it only works in some of your windows. The tools baked into the operating system show up in its own text fields and a handful of others, but your real day happens in Notion, Slack, Linear, a CRM, a web form, a code editor. Edyt works in every editable field on your Mac, because it reads your selection directly instead of waiting for an app to offer a menu.
| Preset tones | Your own prompt (Edyt) | |
|---|---|---|
| How you set tone | Pick from a fixed list | Describe it in your words |
| Reuse | Re-pick every time | Saved, one shortcut |
| Where it works | Mostly native fields | Every editable field |
Make it yours
Download Edyt, open the rewrite settings, and write one sentence describing how you sound. Then highlight an email you've already sent and press ⌃⇧C.
The fastest way to tell whether it worked is simple: it should read like you on a good day, not like a brand.