AI writing assistant for software engineers

Yes. Rewrait is a native Mac and Windows app that operates at the OS level, not an editor extension, so the same shortcut works over VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, the GitHub or GitLab PR description box in your browser, Jira and Linear fields, Slack, and your git client's commit box. There is nothing to install per tool and no extension to keep updated when your editor does. Select the text, hit the hotkey, pick a shortcut, and the rewrite replaces your selection where it sits. The practical win: developer writing is spread across a dozen surfaces — commit messages, PR bodies, ticket descriptions, incident channels, README sections — and they all get the same saved shortcuts, instead of whatever AI happens to be built into each tool this quarter.

Yes — this is what the Team plan is for. A workspace owner publishes shared shortcuts like 'PR description', 'incident update', or 'postmortem summary', and every engineer runs them from the same hotkey menu, so the incident channel reads the same no matter who is on call. Shortcuts can also draw on approved company context: connect your runbooks or engineering guidelines in Confluence, Notion, or Google Docs (read-only, owner-approved), and rewrites follow the format your team actually documented rather than each person's memory of it. New engineers write like the team from week one instead of absorbing conventions by osmosis. Team costs $20 per seat per month billed annually ($25 monthly) with no seat minimum, and every new account starts with a 14-day free Team trial, no card required.

Your text is never used to train models — that is the default for everyone and a written guarantee on the Team plan. Selections are processed on demand to produce the rewrite, rewrite history is off unless you opt in, and feedback telemetry never includes your text. Two honest caveats. First, the selected text is sent to an AI model provider to generate the rewrite, like any cloud AI tool — so treat secrets, keys, and credentials the way you already should: do not select them. The subprocessor list on our security page shows exactly who processes what. Second, selections are capped at 1,000 characters on Free and 10,000 on paid plans, which in practice keeps rewrites scoped to a commit message or a PR body, not your codebase.

Yes. Pro and Team include API access, so you can call Rewrait's rewrite endpoint from scripts and tooling rather than through the hotkey UI. Engineers use it for things like normalizing changelog entries before a release, cleaning up auto-generated release notes, or running a docs file through the same style shortcut the team uses interactively — so the docs sound like the team whether a human or a pipeline touched them last. The API applies the same privacy posture as the app: text is processed on demand and never used for training. Pro is $12/mo billed annually ($144/yr) or $15 monthly, and also lifts limits to unlimited rewrites at up to 10,000 characters per request, with premium models and dictation included. The 14-day free Team trial covers the API too.