Introducing ReQuill: one-click AI text rewriting in any Windows app

Today we're releasing the first public pre-release of ReQuill, a one-click AI text rewriter for Windows. The idea is simple: select text in any application - Word, Chrome, Outlook, Notepad, Slack - press a hotkey or click the small floating widget that appears next to your cursor, and about two seconds later your selection is replaced in place with the AI rewrite. Your clipboard is restored afterwards, and nothing about your workflow changes.

Four rewrite modes, everywhere

ReQuill ships with four modes, each on its own global hotkey. They work in any app that accepts text input - no plugins, no per-app setup.

• Ctrl+Alt+Q - rewrite the selection as a natural question.
• Ctrl+Alt+S - rewrite as a clear, grammatically correct sentence.
• Ctrl+Alt+P - expand into a polished, well-structured paragraph.
• Ctrl+Alt+G - fix grammar only, keeping your wording intact.

Prefer clicking? After a mouse selection, a Grammarly-style floating button bar pops up near the cursor without stealing focus. And there's a full workspace window too - paste text, rewrite it, chain rewrites (fix grammar, then expand), and browse this session's history.

Bring your own AI - or keep everything local

ReQuill doesn't run its own backend. You connect the provider you already use: Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, Google Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, Mistral, DeepSeek, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. If you'd rather keep your text on your machine entirely, point it at Ollama or LM Studio and rewriting is 100% local - free, offline, no API key.

Privacy was a design constraint, not an afterthought: API keys are stored in Windows Credential Manager (never plain-text files), there is no telemetry and no account, and rewrite history lives in memory only - it vanishes when the app closes.

Getting started

• Download ReQuill-Setup.exe from the product page - it installs per-user with no admin rights, on Windows 10/11 (64-bit). A portable ReQuill.exe is also available.
• Windows SmartScreen may warn that the app is unrecognized - this pre-release build isn't code-signed yet. Click 'More info' then 'Run anyway'. Code-signing lands in the final release.
• On first run, open Settings (or right-click the tray icon), pick a provider, paste your API key, and hit 'Test connection'. No key needed for Ollama.

Want more detail? The complete user guide - every provider, hotkey, widget setting, config option, and troubleshooting fix - lives in the docs section of the ReQuill product page.

It's a pre-release - here's what that means

ReQuill is under active development, and this beta ships with known rough edges: apps running as Administrator ignore simulated keystrokes (Windows UIPI), clipboard restore covers text only, keyboard-only selections don't trigger the floating widget (hotkeys still work), and rewrite history clears on restart. The full list, with workarounds, is in the release notes that ship with the download.

We're releasing early because we want your feedback

This pre-release lives or dies on what you tell us. If you hit a bug, describe what you did, what you expected, and what happened - attaching the log from %APPDATA%\ReQuill\requeill.log helps a lot. If something feels clumsy, or you want a new rewrite mode, another provider, tone presets, translations, custom prompts - no idea is too small. And knowing what already works well helps us keep it.

Every bug report and every idea you send makes the 1.0 release better. Grab the pre-release from the ReQuill product page and tell us what you think.

Written by Appesto Engineering.