Pawlish
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One-time purchase · 14-day free trial · M1 or later · macOS 13+

Polish any text, anywhere on your Mac.

Select text in any app and a small bar pops up. One click and your own AI improves, shortens, summarizes, proofreads or translates it.

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For Apple Silicon Macs (M1 or later) on macOS 13 Ventura or newer.

  • Your own API key
  • No Pawlish servers
  • Tiny and native

Five keys for every kind of polish.

Pick one from the bar, from the menu bar icon, or press ⌃⌥T on selected text. Each key runs an instruction you can edit in Settings.

Improve

Cleaner, clearer writing. Same language, same meaning.

Before

hey! just checking if u got a chance to look at the proposal, we need to decide this week

After

Hi! I wanted to check whether you’ve had a chance to look at the proposal. We need to decide this week.

Shorten

Fewer words, same ideas.

Before

I wanted to reach out to let you know that, unfortunately, we are not going to be able to make the deadline we originally agreed on for the delivery of the first version.

After

Sorry, we won’t meet the agreed deadline for the first version.

Summarize

A few clear sentences out of a long text.

Before

The team met on Tuesday to review the launch plan. Design is finished, but engineering found two blocking bugs in the payment flow that need about a week to fix. Marketing will move the announcement to the 14th, and support will get a draft of the help articles on Friday.

After

Launch moves to the 14th because of two payment bugs (about a week to fix). Design is done, and support gets draft help articles on Friday.

Proofread

Fixes spelling and grammar without touching your style.

Before

Their going to announce the new feature tomorow, i think its realy usefull.

After

They’re going to announce the new feature tomorrow, I think it’s really useful.

Translate

Into your language, or into the next one on your list when the text is already in it.

Before

Nos vemos mañana a las diez en la oficina.

After

See you tomorrow at ten at the office.

Select. Click. Copy.

No new window to open, no app to switch to.

  1. Select text

    In Mail, Safari, Slack, Notes, your editor… Drag, double-click or press ⌘A. Pawlish reads the selection through macOS Accessibility, and with a quick ⌘C in browsers that don’t share it.

  2. Pick a key

    A small bar appears next to your selection. Prefer the keyboard? Press ⌃⌥T, or use the menu bar icon.

  3. Copy the result

    It opens in a window you can resize, with a Copy button. Turn on auto-copy if you like, or let the window close by itself.

Your AI. Your key. Your rules.

Pawlish doesn’t come with an AI of its own. Connect the one you already use and pay that provider directly, or nothing at all with a local model.

  • OpenAI, Anthropic, local or compatible

    OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Ollama, LM Studio, or any service that speaks the OpenAI API.

  • Test the connection, pick a model

    Press Test connection and Pawlish lists the models your key can use. Pick one from the menu.

  • Your key stays in your Keychain

    API keys are saved only in your Mac’s Keychain, never in a file and never on a server of ours.

  • Lengths in words, not tokens

    Choose how long answers may get: Short, Normal, Long or Very long.

Your text goes to your AI, and nowhere else.

The text you select goes straight to the AI service you choose, or to your local model. It never passes through a server of ours, and its developers don’t supervise it.

  • No Pawlish servers

    Nothing sits between your Mac and your AI provider.

  • Keys in your Keychain

    Your API keys never leave your Mac, except to the service they belong to.

  • Only anonymous error reports

    No usage statistics and no tracking inside the app. When something breaks, a short anonymous report says what, never your text.

Read the full privacy notice

Install it in a minute.

Pawlish is a regular Mac app. This is the whole setup.

  1. Download and drag

    Open the DMG and drag Pawlish to your Applications folder.

    Download for Mac

  2. Open it the first time

    macOS will say it can’t verify the app, because Pawlish isn’t notarized yet. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. Or run this in Terminal:

    xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Pawlish.app

  3. Follow the welcome guide

    Connect your AI and allow the Accessibility permission, which is how Pawlish reads the text you select.

You’ll need

  • A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later)
  • macOS 13 Ventura or newer
  • An API key from an AI service, or a local model

After that, updates download by themselves from GitHub, and each one is checked against a signature before it’s installed.

Pay once. It’s yours.

Pawlish is a one-time purchase. No subscription, no renewals, no account.

  • One payment

    You pay once and keep Pawlish for good. Nothing is billed again, ever.

  • 14 days to try it

    Use every feature for 14 days, free and without a card. Buy it only if you like it.

  • Up to 3 Macs

    Your license key works on up to three of your Macs.

The price is shown at checkout. The AI you connect is paid to its own provider, or free if you use a local model.

Questions, answered.

Is Pawlish free?
You can try it free for 14 days, with everything switched on. After that it’s a one-time purchase: no subscription and no account. You also pay your AI provider directly for what you use, or nothing if you run a local model.
Which AI services does it work with?
OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), local servers like Ollama and LM Studio, and any other service that follows the OpenAI API. When the service has a list of models, Pawlish shows it after you test the connection.
Where is my API key stored?
In your Mac’s Keychain, and nowhere else.
What leaves my Mac, and where does it go?
The text you select and the instruction for the action go to the AI service you chose, and nowhere else. Besides that, Pawlish checks GitHub for updates, checks your license with Polar, the store that sells it, and sends anonymous error reports. The details are in the privacy notice.
Why does it need the Accessibility permission?
It’s how macOS lets an app read the text you’ve selected in other apps. Many browsers and Electron apps don’t share their selection that way, so Pawlish copies it with ⌘C, reads it and puts your clipboard back right away. You can turn that off in Settings → General. Password managers are never read.
Why does macOS say it can’t verify Pawlish?
Pawlish isn’t notarized yet, because there is no Apple Developer account behind it for now. Downloads and updates come from Pawlish’s page on GitHub, and every update is signed. The install steps show how to open it anyway.
Does it work on Intel Macs?
Not yet. Pawlish is built for Apple Silicon (M1 or later).
How much text can I send at once?
Up to 50,000 characters by default, about 8,000 words. You can raise or lower the limit, from 10,000 to 200,000, in Settings → General.
Can I change what each action does?
Yes. Settings → Prompts shows the instruction behind every key. Edit it, or restore the originals.
Does it work offline?
With a local model, yes. A cloud service needs a connection, like any other app that talks to it.
Which language does Translate use?
By default, your Mac’s main language. If the text is already in it, Pawlish translates into the next language on your list in System Settings → General → Language & Region, or into English. Edit the instruction in Settings → Prompts to choose any language.
How do the free trial and the license work?
The trial starts the first time you open Pawlish and lasts 14 days, with everything switched on. Then you buy a license, a one-time purchase, and enter its key in Settings → License. Activating registers that Mac, and from the same screen you can free it to move the license to another one. When the trial ends, Pawlish stops processing text until you activate a license; your settings and API keys stay as they are.