Instant AI · fast and simple

Select text anywhere.
AI does what you want
in one tap.

aiCat lives on a hotkey, not in a browser tab. Highlight anything — in Slack, in your IDE, in a PDF, in a form — and rewrite, translate, proof-check, detect AI, explain, listen or dictate. aiCat guesses what you need and does it instantly.

Start and get 10 aiCatCoins for free — what is an aiCatCoin?

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Works in every app· macOS · Windows · Linux· Any language, including RTL· $6/month instead of $20· Free tier, no card

Three seconds, start to finish

The whole point is that there is no workflow to learn.

1

Select the text

Anywhere on your computer. No extension, no plugin, no pasting into a website.

2

Press one key

Option alone lets aiCat decide. Option+T translates, Option+R rewrites, and so on. Or click the ✨ button that appears next to your selection.

3

Apply

The result appears over your selection with the details — corrections, keywords, sources. One click puts it back in place.

aiCat guesses what you need

Press Option with nothing else and aiCat reads the situation: it knows whether you are writing or reading, and whether the text is in your language.

You are typing

→ Refine

Grammar, spelling and the non-native collocations that give you away — with every correction explained. Wrong keyboard layout is detected and fixed first.

You are reading something foreign

→ Translate

Translation into your language, plus up to ten keywords with transcriptions so you gradually stop needing it.

You are reading your own language

→ Proof check

Is this correct? What is unsupported? What is missing? Each claim with a status and, where it exists, a source.

Ten things, one hotkey each

⌥R

Rewrite any text, anywhere on your computer

Select the sentence. Press Option+R. aiCat rewrites it — fixing grammar, and the awkward collocations that quietly mark you as a non-native speaker.

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⌥R

A paraphraser that lives in your keyboard, not in a browser tab

Select any sentence in any application and get a clean paraphrase in one tap — no pasting, no tab-switching, no word limit games.

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⌥P

Proofreading that checks the facts, not just the commas

Option+P on any selection: is this correct, what is unsupported, and what should you also know. With sources.

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⌥T

Translate whatever is on your screen, without leaving it

Select foreign text anywhere and press Option+T. Translation, plus the ten keywords worth learning with transcriptions.

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⌥D

AI checker that works on whatever you are reading

Option+D gives you a likelihood that the selected text was written by a model, with the specific signals that produced the number.

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⌥E

Select the confusing part. Press one key.

Option+E turns jargon, legalese, an error message or a dense paragraph into a plain sentence — then a chat if you want to dig in.

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⌥L

Have anything on your screen read to you

Option+L reads the selection out loud, with speed, volume, trimming and save. Nothing selected? The same key starts recording you.

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⌥W

Dictate into any text field on your computer

Press Option+W, talk, stop. The transcript appears at your cursor — in Slack, in your IDE, in a form, anywhere.

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⌥C

Select-to-Ask — the chat already knows what you are looking at

Option+C opens a chat with your selection attached and the first answer already being written. Option+S does the same with web search on.

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⌥I

Select a description. Get the picture.

Option+I sends whatever you highlighted to an image model and opens the result in a chat you can keep refining.

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Why it costs $6 and not $20

Most tools bill you frontier-model prices for fixing a comma. aiCat picks the cheapest model that is genuinely good enough for the task in front of it — and tells you which one it picked.

  • We partner with low-cost providers, including Gonka's decentralised inference.
  • You pay in aiCatCoins for what you actually use. Coins never expire.
  • A quiet month costs you nothing. No "unused credits reset" games.
  • Want the best model anyway? Pick Gemini Pro, Claude Opus or GPT per task.

How aiCatCoins work →

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1 aiCatCoin ≈ 10 000 tokens ≈ one ordinary request

$1 = 100 coins at base rate — up to 1000 coins on Enterprise

10 coins free to start, +1 every day you use aiCat

Simple pricing

Annual billing charges 10 months instead of 12.

Monthly Annual 2 months free

Free

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10 aiCatCoins / month ≈ 100K tokens

Up to 500 characters per request

Top-ups at $1 = 200 coins (x2)

  • 10 aiCatCoins / month (≈100K average text-model tokens)
  • All text tasks: rewrite, translate, proof-check, explain, AI detection
  • Voice recording → text is free here too
  • Up to 500 characters per request
  • Buy extra aiCatCoins at $1 = 200 coins (50% off)
Start for free ✨

Team + Offline

$30 $18 / month · per member −40%

Billed monthly. Cancel any time.

12,000 aiCatCoins / month ≈ 120M tokens

Up to 50,000 characters per request

Top-ups at $1 = 400 coins (x4)

  • +12 000 aiCatCoins / month per member (≈120M tokens)
  • Up to 50 000 characters per request
  • Add team members, shared history, shared settings
  • Privacy mode: run any local model, works with no internet — Beta
  • Custom model endpoints for every task type
  • Enterprise features included
  • Buy extra aiCatCoins at $1 = 400 coins (75% off)

Enterprise

$150 $90 / month · per member −40%

Billed monthly. Cancel any time.

150,000 aiCatCoins / month ≈ 1.5B tokens

Unlimited selection length

Top-ups at $1 = 1000 coins (x10)

  • +150 000 aiCatCoins / month per member (≈1500M tokens)
  • Unlimited selection length (model context limits still apply)
  • SSO, audit log, centralised policy and model allow-lists
  • Priority routing and dedicated support
  • Buy extra aiCatCoins at $1 = 1000 coins (90% off)

Prices in USD. Payments are processed by Inream and appear on your statement as INREAM. Crypto (USDT/USDC and others) is also accepted.

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Questions

What is aiCat?

aiCat is a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux. You select text anywhere on your computer, press one hotkey, and an AI does what you need with it — rewrite, translate, proof-check, detect AI, explain, read aloud, dictate, or start a chat.

How much does aiCat cost?

Free to start, with 10 aiCatCoins a month and every text task included. Premium is $6 a month (40% off the $10 list price) and adds voice, image and video generation, 5000-character selections and 3000 coins a month. Team + Offline is $18 per member and adds local models that work without internet.

Which operating systems does aiCat support?

macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows 10/11, and Linux as AppImage, .deb or .rpm.

Does aiCat work in every application?

Yes. It works at the operating-system level rather than through per-app plugins, so it covers native apps, browsers, IDEs, terminals and PDF viewers alike.

Is my text sent anywhere?

Only the text you explicitly act on is sent to the model you selected, for that one request. Your history is stored locally on your device. Team + Offline can run a local model so nothing leaves the machine at all.

aiCat handles selected text as you want, in one tap.

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