Edyt went live this morning: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
It's a Mac and Windows app (Linux will come). You select text anywhere, press a shortcut, pick rewrite or explain or one of your own prompts, and the result replaces the selection. If the text can't be selected, like a PDF or a screenshot, you hold Option or Alt and drag over it instead.
Most AI tools come with a boundary: their own window, the browser only, one app, or one operating system. Step outside it and you're back to copying text into a chat and pasting the answer back. That's what I wanted to get rid of.
One thing I keep going back and forth on. Right now a prompt only sees the text you selected. I could let prompts call MCP servers, so you select a customer name and a prompt pulls their last three tickets, or select a sentence in a spec and it checks it against your Linear issues.
I'm not sure people would set that up for a text tool. If you already run MCP servers for something, what would you point a selected-text prompt at?
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Ahmad, and I built Edyt.
Edyt puts AI on any text you select, in any app, on Mac and Windows. Ubuntu is next.
What the toolbar does:
Rewrite keeps your tone. It follows your own instructions, not a dropdown of three styles.
Explain and Translate, as deep or as short as you ask.
Your saved prompts, one keystroke away in every app, on any OS.
Alternatives shows several ways to say it. Pick one.
Screen reading handles what you can't select. Hold Option (or Alt) and drag over a PDF, a screenshot, or a shared screen, and the text is read on your device.
Your prompts and settings live on your account. Sign in on another machine and Edyt sounds like you there too.
The free plan is enough for most people: about 130 quick edits a day, no credit card. If you need more, PRODUCTHUNT takes 40% off the first year of Pro.
Selected text is sent securely for processing and never stored. Screen reading never leaves your computer.
Try it on one sentence you don't like. That is the fastest way to get it.
I'm here all day for questions.
@ahandani - interesting concept, how does it compare to and does it work well alongside Apple Intelligence. Best of luck with the launch today
@codeandsea
Thanks! Fair question.
Biggest difference is tone. Writing Tools gives you a few fixed styles. In Edyt you write the instruction yourself, once, in plain words, and it stays yours. Save as many as you like, run any of them with a keystroke in any app. So it sounds like you, not like a preset.
Then there's what it covers. Explain with follow-up questions, proofread that shows each fix before applying it, translate, and alternatives when the first rewrite is close but not quite right. And it works on text you can't select, like a PDF or a screenshot, by dragging over it.
Works on Windows too, same prompts on both.
@ahandani Awesome, thanks for the clarification