Changelog

WriterBar can now update itself, and two bugs that could quietly lose your edits are fixed.

New

• Automatic updates. WriterBar checks for new versions on its own and installs them in a click. Settings › General has a Check for Updates control if you'd rather look yourself, and you can turn the automatic check off there. Updates found in the background wait in the menu bar instead of interrupting what you're typing.

Fixed

• Edits now save immediately. Changing an action, snippet, or variable and then quitting — or restarting your Mac — could discard the change. Edits are written to disk as you make them, and anything outstanding is saved when the app quits.
• Sync no longer overwrites newer edits. If a change couldn't reach the server — you were offline, or the app closed too quickly — the next launch replaced it with the older copy from the server. Whichever version is newer now wins, and the newer one is sent up to your other devices.
• The app icon is back to its original artwork. It had been showing a blue-tinted variant that didn't match the icon used inside the app.

Updating from 1.0.0? You'll need to download this one by hand — 1.0.0 shipped before automatic updates existed. Every release after this one can update itself.

WriterBar is here. Select text in any app, rewrite it with AI, and keep writing — all from your menu bar, no copy-pasting into a browser tab.

Core

• Rewrite anywhere. Works in whatever you're typing in — Mail, Notes, Slack, your code editor, any app with a text field.
• One hotkey. Select text, hit your shortcut, get a result. Apply it, discard it, or ask for another pass.
• Quick WriterBar. A command palette for running actions, pasting snippets, or asking AI anything — without leaving what you're doing.

Actions, snippets, and your own workflows

• Built-in actions for the writing tasks you do constantly — fix grammar, make it more professional, shorten it, and more — ready on day one.
• Custom AI actions. Write your own prompt once, trigger it forever with its own hotkey.
• Snippets for the things you paste all the time — your email signature, boilerplate replies, anything repetitive.
• Diff & History — see exactly what changed, and step back through previous results if the first rewrite wasn't the one.

AI, your way

• Multi-provider AI — Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models, including Apple Intelligence running entirely on-device on Apple Silicon.
• Bring your own API key on paid plans if you'd rather use your own provider account.
• No prompt storage. Your text streams to the model and back — we don't log it or keep it.

Account & sync

• Sync across devices on paid plans — your actions, snippets, and variables follow you.
• Simple plans: a free trial to start, one-time licenses, or a cloud subscription — see writerbar.app/pricing.