Windows v7.1 | 🆕 macOS v3.1
🎉 Release notes for the Windows version (v7.1):
v7.1 Hotfix Additions:
- Fixed an issue with the OpenAI Provider, and improved & optimised the entire AI Provider architecture.
- Improved the thinking text animation.
- Fixed the default icon arrangement to be the same as v6.
v7 Additions:
1. Customizable buttons! You can now add, edit, remove, and rearrange the buttons.
Huge thanks to @momokrono for building the entire back-end for this 💛! I added the GUI (with draggable buttons, reset to default functionality...).
2. Sleeker pop-up UI
3. A native Ollama AI Provider (using the Ollama API), for easier Ollama setup & custom model-in-memory-time options — entirely thanks to @momokrono!
4. New Gemini model options, with better explanations
5. A new Pause & Resume option to stop Writing Tools from reading your hotkey if necessary. Again, @momokrono so awesomely implemented this :D
5. Other Improvements:
- UX improvements to the Summary etc. pop-up window (optimized initial height)
- Friendlier error message on hitting Gemini rate-limits
- Added graceful quitting when running through the terminal [credit: @momokrono]
I want to thank @momokrono once again for all his help and support—not only in contributing code, but also for extensively helping manage GitHub issues. Thank you, truly—I'll never forget your kind contributions. 💛
Upcoming features:
- Localization (multi-language UI) — @momokrono has built the entire framework for this, and my gratitude is unbounded — this would help so many. It'll be ready by the next release!
- Hotkeys for specific options.
- Support to remove reasoning token markers if needed (PS: DeepSeek R1 & Gemini 2.0 Thinking already work!).
- (researching) Tracked changes/diff check (to compare proofread text with the original).
- Checking that the active window is the same before pasting.
- More feature suggestions on GitHub Issues, and potentially future ones.
- And of course, bug fixes and improvements overall :]
⬆️ Update Instructions:
You can keep using your old config.json to preserve your set-up! Simply bring it over into the new Writing Tools v7.1 folder you'll download below.
🐞 Known Issues
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On some devices, Writing Tools may not work correctly with the default hotkey.
To fix it, simply change the hotkey to ctrl+` or ctrl+j and restart Writing Tools.
PS: If a hotkey is already in use by a program or background process, Writing Tools may not be able to intercept it. The above hotkeys are usually unused. -
The initial launch of the
Writing Tools.exemight take unusually long — this seems to be because AV software extensively scans this new executable before letting it run. Once it launches into the background in RAM, it works instantly as usual.
🆕🎉 Release notes for the native macOS version by @Aryamirsepasi (v3.1):
- Complete new tool management system to fix current issues.
- Added checks to disable Local LLM on Intel Macs. This should prevent the crashes.
- Fix the issue with the themes not updating correctly
- Improved UI
- Bug fixes in Settings, Onboarding and Popup.
Release notes for macOS v3:
- Almost everything new in Windows v7.1.
- Integrated Local LLM (Llama 3.2 3B), the app now can work without any API Keys or Ollama. Please note that the LLM must be downloaded via Settings.
- Support for German and French.
- Ability to close the Popup Window via ESC Key.
- Bug fixes.
Please Note: Sometimes, after updating the macOS version, the tools might not show up. You just have to go to System Settings and give the app accessibility access again. System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Accessibility -> Select writing-tools and press the minus button -> Press the plus button and add writing-tools again and enable access to it.
Upcoming features:
- Text Streaming in response window.
- Better support for reasoning models.
- Support for Videos and Links via Gemini.
- Image support on all Providers
- Still testing: I am testing and seeing if it is possible to use a Core ML Model instead of MLX. This should theoretically allow Local LLM to run on Intel Macs, too.
