Grammarly, Notion AI, and ChatGPT send every sentence you touch to the cloud, where it is logged. Typilot runs every rewrite and summary against a local model - unpublished work stays unpublished, and there is no vendor copy of your draft.
Define a custom rewrite prompt once - dry, lyrical, punchy, house style - and reuse it from a keystroke. Because each command only sees the selected passage, the model never ingests the whole document.
Scrivener, Google Docs, Ulysses, Obsidian, iA Writer, the browser - Typilot acts on whatever text field has focus. No per-app plugin, no copy-paste into a separate chat window.
Grammarly Premium runs about $144 a year, every year. Typilot is a one-time $199 lifetime license (or $7.99/month if you prefer), and it keeps working offline - on a plane, in a cabin, mid-deadline with no wifi.
Select a clunky paragraph in any editor
An in-place rewrite - no copy/paste, your formatting intact.
Highlight the opening you over-wrote
A trimmed version that keeps the lede and the rhythm.
Type the command where the cursor sits
A structured outline written straight into the document.
Open a saved transcript and run the command
Three quotable lines ready to weave into the draft.
Select the passage you are referencing
A reworded version in your own voice, locally generated.
Yes. For rewriting, tightening, tone shifts, and summarising, Typilot does the same work locally - your text is never uploaded, unlike Grammarly, which processes everything in the cloud. Grammarly also runs a live grammar overlay; Typilot instead acts on demand, in any app, when you trigger a command.
No. Each command only sees the text you select or the field you are typing in. There is no background indexing of your document, your folder, or your filesystem.
A general 8B-13B model such as Llama 3.x or Mistral handles polish and rewriting well on most laptops. Larger models match voice more closely. You can bind a different Ollama model to each command from the settings.
Yes. The underlying models work across 90+ languages, and the trl: command translates a selection inline. Everything still runs on your machine.
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