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Brisktype
Private AI Writing Assistant for Mac (On-Device, No-Cloud)
6 followers
Private AI Writing Assistant for Mac (On-Device, No-Cloud)
6 followers
Brisktype fixes your grammar, expands snippets, and finishes your sentences — in every Mac app. The AI runs entirely on your Mac, so nothing you type is ever sent anywhere. No account, no subscription. One-time $39.
Great question — personalization is actually one of the areas I’m most excited about.
The idea is that your writing style should become a local asset, not something uploaded to a server. Things like your preferred tone, commonly used phrases, formatting habits, and vocabulary could gradually help the assistant adapt while everything stays on your Mac.
I’m also thinking about the balance between being helpful and becoming too predictable — sometimes people want AI to preserve their voice, and sometimes they want it to challenge or improve their writing.
Would you prefer a system that automatically learns your style over time, or one where you can explicitly define things like “make my writing more concise/professional/casual”?
@rudratosh I think the best approach would probably be a mix of both. Automatic learning makes the experience feel magical because the tool gradually understands how I naturally communicate, but having explicit controls gives users confidence and prevents unwanted changes to their voice.
For example, I’d love to have different modes or profiles — work emails could be more polished, Slack could stay casual, and personal writing could preserve my natural style.
One interesting challenge is how to let users understand what the AI has learned about them without making it feel like a complicated settings page.
How are you thinking about exposing that personalization to users — would it be something visible they can manage, or more of a background intelligence that quietly adapts?
Love that it runs entirely on-device, that's a huge selling point for anyone handling sensitive work. One thing I'd love to see is a quick toggle or per-app setting to switch between strict grammar corrections and a more relaxed tone, so it doesn't over-edit things like casual messages or Slack chats where colloquial language is the whole point.
@fahrisurme57009 This is a great point — I completely agree that context matters a lot. The same sentence can need a completely different treatment depending on whether it’s a client email, a Slack message, or a personal note.
A per-app style setting is definitely an interesting direction. I like the idea of Brisktype understanding that Gmail might need a more polished tone, while Slack or Messages should preserve more personality and casual language.
I’m also curious how people would prefer this to work — would you rather have the app automatically learn the right tone for each application over time, or have simple profiles like “Professional”, “Casual”, and “Strict Grammar” that you can switch between?
Love that everything stays local, honestly that's the main selling point for me. One thing I'd love to see though is a way to set custom shortcuts for specific phrases I type all the time, kind of like text expansions but tied into the AI completion context so it knows my tone
@c_oglu92268 This is a really interesting idea. I think shortcuts become much more powerful when they understand context instead of being just simple text replacements.
For example, instead of only expanding “br” into a fixed phrase, the AI could understand how you usually write that phrase and adapt it depending on where you’re using it — a client email, an internal message, or a quick Slack reply.
I also like the idea of keeping these personal shortcuts completely local, because over time they become a part of your own writing workflow and style.
Curious — would you prefer these shortcuts to be something you manually create (like a personal command library), or something Brisktype could suggest by noticing phrases you repeatedly type?