Write like Hemingway in any app, with one shortcut

A handful of mechanical habits, not magic: short declarative sentences, active voice, concrete nouns over abstractions, almost no adverbs, and no qualifier stacks like 'it is important to note that'. Hemingway credited the Kansas City Star's style sheet — 'Use short sentences. Use vigorous English.' — as the best writing rules he ever learned, and they translate directly to business prose. Rewrait turns those habits into a shortcut: it rewrites your selected text by shortening sentences, switching passives to actives, deleting hedges and intensifiers, and swapping vague phrases for plain ones, while your facts stay put. The examples on this page show the move. It will not make you Hemingway — nothing will — but it reliably turns a 40-word corporate sentence into two 8-word ones that people actually read.

Readability checkers grade and highlight: they color your long sentences, flag adverbs and passive voice, and hand the rewriting back to you. Useful for learning, slow for shipping. Rewrait does the rewrite. You select the paragraph where it already lives — Word, Google Docs, Notion, an email — press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P, and get the lean version next to your original, with variants if the first cut goes too far. You stay the editor: nothing replaces your text until you choose it. The deeper difference is location. Checkers need you to bring text to them; Rewrait is a native Mac and Windows app that works in the field where the writing happens, so tightening a paragraph costs seconds — which means you will actually do it on the fourth email of the day, not just the big report.

Only if you let it. Three controls keep the simplifying honest. First, you choose the selection: run the shortcut on the rambling intro, not on the methods section. Second, nothing is automatic — the rewrite appears beside your original, and when a cut drops a qualifier that was load-bearing, you pick a different variant or keep your own text. Third, shortcuts are editable instructions: you can tell yours to preserve technical terms, keep hedges that mark genuine uncertainty, or hold a particular reading level. In practice, technical writing benefits most from this style. The famous offenders — 'it should be noted that', 'in order to facilitate' — carry no nuance at all, and cutting them makes the real caveats easier to see, not harder. The signal stays; the static goes.

All of them, effectively. Rewrait is a native Mac and Windows app on a system-wide hotkey, not a plugin, so the same shortcut works in Word, Google Docs, Notion, Gmail and Outlook, Slack, and your blog's CMS editor — anywhere you can select editable text. That is the practical difference from pasting prose into a separate editing tool: the round trip disappears, so you tighten writing at the exact moment you would otherwise shrug and hit send. The Free plan costs $0 and covers 30 rewrites a month at up to 1,000 characters, which suits the 'tighten this paragraph' habit nicely. If you want to run whole sections or use it all day, Pro is $12/mo billed annually ($144/yr) or $15 monthly, with unlimited rewrites and 10,000-character selections.