Writers brew
Overview
- Write and edit text anywhere on your Mac without switching apps using the dropdown menu, menubar, or full app interface
- Generate creative content instantly using the Brew Magic Writer that follows your specific instructions and input text
- Save 10x-100x on AI writing costs by using your own OpenAI key instead of paying per-use fees
- Create custom writing assistants for your unique workflow with the Build Your Own Presets (BYOP) feature
- Process text from images and screenshots using the built-in OCR tool that extracts and converts image text
- Reply to emails in seconds with smart draft generation that works directly within your email client
- Access 50+ specialized writing tools including 'Explain Like I'm 5' and 'Summarize & Takeaways' presets
- Maintain workflow continuity with Raycast integration for grammar fixing, translation, and content explanation
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Works on all platforms
- 50+ presets
- 'Brew Magic Writer' feature
- Smart Reply to Email
- Integration with Raycast
- 'Build Your Own Presets'
- Cost effective
- Available as dropdown menu
- Available as menubar
- Available as full app
- macOS and iOS compatible
- Reasonable pro plan pricing
- Minimum server management
- Fix grammar function
- Improve fluency function
- Translation capabilities
- Concept explanation presets
- Content summarization presets
- Can be used in text editors
- Generates draft in email clients
- OCR engine for image-to-text
- Customizable prompt creation
- Adapts to user's workflow
- Good for co-writing
- Email reply drafts generation
- Can generate creative writing
- Integrated with native apps
- Integrated with browser apps
- Works on electron apps
- One-off payment model
- Lifetime free
- 1 year free updates
- 5 days refund policy
- Question answering capability
- Blog title to article writing
- Content proofreading capability
- Response critique capability
- Straight insert functionality
- Motivates creativity
Cons
- Only on macOS
- iOS version unfinished
- No Windows support
- Limited language translation
- No server management
- Dependent on Raycast for extensions
- Custom presets need creation
- Limited package pricing options
- OCR functionality limited
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Writer's Brew is an AI assistant designed to accelerate users' reading and writing speed and quality. It operates across all browsers, native apps, and electron apps. The software boasts a selection of over 50 presets, including options like 'Explain Like I'm 5' and 'Summarize & Takeaways'. It incorporates the 'Brew Magic Writer' tool and a 'Smart Reply to Email' feature. Writer's Brew is cost-effective and offers up to 100x savings compared to other services. It is presently supported on macOS with an iOS version being developed.
Writer's Brew accelerates the writing process by providing structure and facilitating ideation with over 50 available presets including those that provide summary and key takeaways of existing content. Using artificial intelligence, it corrects grammar, improves fluency, and offers translation among other features. Its tools are designed for use across all the platforms you might use, including browsers, native, and electron apps.
Writer's Brew is compatible with all browsers and works seamlessly with native apps and electron apps, including macOS and Raycast. There's also a version currently under development for iOS.
The 'Brew Magic Writer' in Writer's Brew is a tool that generates creative pieces of writing from user inputs and instructions. The writer can provide instructions and the AI will generate text accordingly. It is capable of responding to tasks such as providing a blog title or an entire blog article, summarizing content, translating content, and acting as a proofreader and critique for your writing.
The 'Smart Reply to Email' feature in Writer's Brew not only helps generate text but also creates a draft in your email clients. This assists in rapidly composing and responding to emails.
Raycast and Writer's Brew work together to allow users to fix grammar, boost fluency, translate text, explain concepts as if to a five-year-old, summarize content, and more. It provides access to Writer's Brew and all its features within Raycast, creating a consolidated and intuitive user experience.
With the 'Build Your Own Presets' (BYOP) feature, Writer's Brew allows users to customize their writing assistance. This feature allows you to create and save your own prompts as presets, providing a bespoke writing experience tailored to your individual preferences and needs.
Writer's Brew is designed for versatile access across multiple devices. It is currently available for macOS and a version for iOS is under development. Users can access Writer's Brew via a dropdown menu, a convenient menubar, and as a fully-fledged app.
Writer's Brew offers two plans for users - the Early Believers Pro Plan for $29 and the Launch Pro Plan for between $49-$89. The affordability stems from the platform's use of the user's own OpenAI key and eschewing of lavish server management
Writer's Brew pulls off a cost-effective solution by utilizing the user's own OpenAI key and cutting back on server management beyond the bare minimum needs, lowering costs by 10x to 100x compared to comparable services.
Yes, you would need your own OpenAI key to use Writer's Brew. This is one of the ways that the software manages to remain tremendously cost-effective.
An iOS version of Writer's Brew is currently in the works.
The Pro Plan in Writer's Brew offers over 50 presets and the option to build your own presets. It also includes smart features, like 'Continue writing', 'Brew magic writer', smart email reply drafts, and a tool to convert image (OCR) to text. These capabilities are accessible from a dropdown menu, a menubar, and the full app. The Pro Plan integrates with Raycast. An iOS version is coming soon.
Writer's Brew intends to manage servers beyond minimum needs by limiting the use of server resources and utilizing the user's own OpenAI key.
Yes, Writer's Brew can translate text to different languages. It works seamlessly with Raycast to provide translations in a number of languages including English, French, German, Spanish, and Dutch.
The 'Image (OCR) to text' feature of Writer's Brew uses an OCR engine (Optical Character Recognition) to extract text from images, enabling it to process and interpret text in images for a more versatile and expansive writing experience.
Users can use the Writer's Brew app in three different ways - through a dropdown menu, a handy menubar, or as a full app. This flexibility caters to various user styles and preferences, maximizing usefulness and comfort.
The purpose of presets in Writer's Brew is to provide ready-made prompts and guidelines to aid in writing, so users don't have to start from scratch. These not only facilitate quicker and more efficient writing but also cater to a range of diverse writing needs.
Yes, Writer's Brew does allow the customization of presets. With the 'Build Your Own Presets' (BYOP) feature, you can write and save your own prompts, providing increased flexibility and customization to enhance your writing experience.
Writer's Brew does not offer a free version. Its pricing plans begin at $29 for the Early Believers Pro Plan, which includes a comprehensive suite of features and tools designed to assist and streamline writing.
Pricing
Pricing model
Freemium
Paid options from
$24
Billing frequency
One-time
Refund policy
Refunds are only offered within 7 days if the license is unused.
