Chrome extension
AvailableInline suggestions in any editable field across Chrome, Edge (Chromium), Brave, Vivaldi, Opera and Arc.
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Free · One account everywhere · English and German
Schreibly for Mac
Schreibly checks your writing where you actually write it — in Mail, Slack, Notes, Pages, or whatever text field you have open right now. It underlines what is off, and fixes it when you click.
Download for macOS
Free macOS 13.0 or later Apple silicon and Intel Version 1.0.196.3 MB
SHA-256: 9864e5277dd81b2da0ee47f4c9633006a12aff6de3775ce993048a2908d59150
How to install it
Download and drag
Open the disk image you downloaded. A window opens with Schreibly on one side and your Applications folder on the other — drag Schreibly onto Applications. That is the whole install.
ApplicationsSchreiblyDrag Schreibly onto the Applications folder. Give it permission to read the text field
The first time you launch Schreibly, macOS asks for Accessibility permission. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility and switch Schreibly on. This is the permission that lets Schreibly see the text field you are typing in — it is how the app works at all, and macOS deliberately makes you grant it by hand. Checking starts within a couple of seconds; there is nothing to restart.
Sign in
Open the menu-bar item and choose Sign in. Your browser opens, you sign in to your free Schreibly account, and you are handed back to the app. There is nothing else to configure.
What “Accessibility access” actually gives Schreibly
macOS keeps the contents of other apps’ windows away from every app by default. The Accessibility API is the one door through it, and macOS makes you open that door by hand, per app. Schreibly needs it because the entire product is “check the text in the field you are typing in” — without it there is no text to check.
What Schreibly does with it
- Reads the text of the editable field that is currently focused, and where your cursor is in it.
- Writes a correction back into that same field when you click one.
- Notices which application is in front, so it can use the right language and skip the ones you have ignored.
What it does not do
- Password and other secure fields are never read. They are excluded before any value is touched — not read and then filtered out.
- Nothing is captured outside the field you are typing in: no screen recording, no keystroke logging, no reading of windows you are not writing in.
- Web browsers are skipped entirely, whatever they have open.
- Applications on your Ignored Apps list are skipped before a single character is read.
You can withdraw the permission at any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility. Schreibly stops seeing anything the moment you do.
Schreibly for Windows
Schreibly checks your writing where you actually write it — in Outlook, Word, Teams, Slack, or whatever text field you have open right now. It underlines what is off, and fixes it when you click.
Get it from Microsoft Store
Free Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit) Installed and updated by the Microsoft Store
How to install it
Install it from the Microsoft Store
Open Schreibly in the Microsoft Store and install it. The Store keeps it up to date for you from then on.
Find it in the system tray
Schreibly has no window. It sits in the system tray, next to the clock — you may have to click the arrow to show hidden icons. Everything is in its menu. Unlike on a Mac, there is no permission to grant: Windows lets Schreibly read the field you are typing in straight away.
Sign in
Open the tray icon and choose Sign in. Your browser opens, you sign in to your free Schreibly account, and you are handed back to the app. There is nothing else to configure.
Schreibly in your browser
The same checking, in any editable field on the web — mail, chat, a form, a text box in an admin panel. The desktop apps skip browsers on purpose, so the two never draw over each other.
Add to Chrome
Free From the Chrome Web Store Nothing to install
Using Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera or Arc?
The Chrome Web Store build installs and runs in all of them — they are all Chromium, and every one of them can install from that store. A dedicated Edge listing is being prepared so it can be found on the Microsoft store as well, but you do not have to wait for it.
Where to get it
Microsoft Edge extension
Coming soonA dedicated Edge listing on the Microsoft Add-ons store.
Store link coming soonFirefox extension
Coming soonSame inline suggestions, packaged for Firefox and submitted to AMO.
Store link coming soonWhat Schreibly does not reach yet
Two places it cannot check today, and the reason each one is hard. Tell us which of them matters to you and it moves up the list.
An Office add-in
Coming soonOn Windows, Schreibly already checks Outlook and Word through the desktop app, like any other application. A proper add-in is a different piece of work — it is what would cover Word on a Mac and Office in a browser tab.
Google Docs
Coming soonGoogle Docs draws its own text surface instead of using a normal editable field, so the extension cannot underline inside it the way it does everywhere else. It needs work of its own.
Neither of these has a date. This is what is known to be missing and why — not a roadmap.
One account, the same everywhere
Your language, your check categories, your own dictionary and your improve instructions belong to your account rather than to the app — so they are already there when you sign in on a second device. Whatever Schreibly reads, it reads in order to check it and for nothing else: your text is never stored and never sold, it goes only to us and to the AI infrastructure that runs our models (data centres in Germany and the United States, so it can leave the EEA), and it is never used to train a model.