Pismo

Pismo is a native desktop application for Mac and Windows that adds AI writing assistance across other programs — email clients, document editors, messaging apps, and browsers — rather than working only inside a browser extension. A single hotkey brings up its tools wherever the user is typing, offering grammar and spelling correction, tone and style adjustment, text expansion or condensing, and translation between languages. Users can also create their own custom prompts and bind them to hotkeys for repeated tasks. The tool targets professionals, writers, students, and multilingual users who want consistent writing help without switching to a separate app or copying text back and forth. Because it runs at the operating-system level rather than inside a single browser tab, it works inside apps like Word, Slack, Discord, and code editors as well as web pages. Pismo reports more than 2,000 customers worldwide and offers a free download with a one-week trial before paid plans, priced from €8 per month. One limitation: as a native desktop app, Pismo is not available for mobile devices or Linux, so users who write primarily on phones or tablets, or on non-Windows/Mac operating systems, cannot use it.