plumeo

Getting started

Plumeo improves any text, in any application, with a single keyboard shortcut. No copy-pasting into a separate window. Select your text where you're already writing, press the shortcut, and Plumeo replaces or offers alternatives in place.

1. Download & install

Grab the installer for your platform:

Your operating system asks you to trust Plumeo the first time you open it. This is a one-time step:

  • macOS: Plumeo is signed and notarized by Apple. When macOS asks whether you want to open an app downloaded from the internet, click Open.
  • Windows: the installer isn't signed by Microsoft yet. If SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC”, click More info, then Run anyway.

2. Grant the Accessibility permission (macOS only)

Plumeo reads and replaces the text you've selected in whichever app is active. That requires the macOS Accessibility permission (Windows needs no equivalent step):

  1. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.
  2. Find Plumeo in the list and enable it.

After updating from version 0.1.4 or earlier

Version 0.1.5 is the first one signed by Apple, so macOS sees it as a new app: the keyboard shortcut stops working until you grant the permission again, and ticking Plumeo again in the list is not enough.

  1. Open the Terminal app, paste this command and press Return: tccutil reset Accessibility com.plumeo.app
  2. In System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility, click +, choose Plumeo in Applications, then enable it.

This happens only once: later versions carry the same signature.

Plumeo only reads the text you explicitly select when you press its shortcut. It never reads your screen in the background. See the privacy policy for details.

3. Your first enhancement

  1. Select some text in any app: an email, a document, a chat message.
  2. Press the default shortcut, ⌘ + Shift + E on macOS or Ctrl + Shift + E on Windows.
  3. Review the result, then replace the original or copy it to your clipboard.

See the full list of shortcuts (including how to customize the global one) on the keyboard shortcuts page.