TexTab

What is TexTab

TexTab is a macOS tool designed to create custom AI-powered keyboard shortcuts for text processing within any application.

How to use TexTab

1. Create AI actions and assign them unique keyboard shortcuts.
2. Select text in any macOS application (browsers, emails, IDEs, documents).
3. Trigger your AI action with a single keyboard shortcut.

Features of TexTab

• Custom Keyboard Shortcuts: Create unlimited AI actions and assign unique keyboard shortcuts for instant triggering.
• Universal Compatibility: Works across all macOS applications, including browsers, emails, IDEs, and documents.
• Multiple AI Providers: Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Perplexity, and OpenRouter. Users can switch providers and choose their preferred models.
• Bring Your Own API Key: Connect directly to AI providers without subscriptions or middlemen.
• Prompt Enhancement: One-click AI-powered prompt improvement to create better-structured prompts.
• Native Plugins (Beta): Includes built-in plugins for Chat with AI, QR Code Generator, Image Converter, and Color Picker.
• Chat with AI: Engage in direct conversations with AI in a popup window, supporting multi-turn conversations with streaming responses.
• Web Search: Search the web using Perplexity, receiving formatted results with links and images.
• Pre-built Actions: Offers ready-to-use actions such as Fix Grammar, Rephrase, Shorten, Formalize, and Translate.
• Private & Local: Data remains on the user's Mac, and API calls are made directly to providers.

Use Cases of TexTab

• Instantly rephrasing selected text in an email.
• Summarizing long articles in a browser with a keyboard shortcut.
• Translating selected text in a document.
• Formalizing text in an IDE.
• Generating QR codes from selected text.
• Converting images with a keyboard shortcut.
• Having direct AI conversations for quick queries.
• Performing web searches for live data within any application.

Pricing

TexTab is free to try. It supports user-provided API keys, implying costs are associated with the AI provider's usage, not TexTab itself.

FAQ

• What operating system does TexTab support? TexTab is a macOS tool and requires macOS 14+.
• Is TexTab free? TexTab is free to try.
• Does TexTab store my data? No, your data stays on your Mac. API calls go directly to providers.