I write papers in LaTeX and reports in Word, and I kept pasting paragraphs into web tools to reword them. So I built Rewrite: one desktop app that rewrites text and also opens those files.

Rewrite text

Click a word for alternatives ranked by how well they fit the sentence. Select a phrase to reword it. Press Ctrl+E for new versions of the whole sentence, each with how much meaning it keeps.

Auto-rewrite does a whole document, or a selection, in one go. Then you accept or reject each change.

Spelling and grammar slips get red and blue underlines with one-click fixes.

Edit the files you already have

Word : .docx, .doc, .odt and .rtf open with styles, lists, tables, pictures, charts and footnotes, and save the same way.

LaTeX : the PDF sits beside the source.…