AI writing assistant one tap away in any app on your iPhone

AI writing assistant one tap away in any app on your iPhone

Hey Product Hunt! I'm Max, a long-time lurker, first-time launcher :)

I've spent the past six sleepless weeks trying to figure out how to get the magical experience of GPT-3 into as many hands as possible. Knowing that one of the few things most people share is love for their phones, I’ve built Auri.

Auri is a custom multilingual keyboard for your iPhone and iPad. It works anywhere your default keyboard does (except for the password and credit card fields because privacy is important).

So far, I've shipped five main features that I think iPhone power users can benefit from the most:

✔️ Rewriting in different styles This one was fun to build. For now, you can rewrite your text in professional, funny, ELI5, sarcastic, business email, excited, poetry, persuasive, creative, and informal styles. Please let me know if you'd like to see some other styles!

✔️ Text Completion Probably the feature I use the most. Start writing, tap the button, and Auri will write the next few sentences. I actually like to use it instead of a Google search with prompts like "Apple was founded in" and "Top-3 things to do in New York:" (you get the idea). But it can also be used as intended – for getting through writer's block.

✔️ Spelling and grammar correction Corrects any text you have written to standard English. (I'll add other languages to this feature in future updates.) It works kind of like Grammarly, but instead of going through every highlighted mistake, you just get your message fixed. (Based on initial feedback, I'll add a Grammarly-like go-through-every-mistake way of doing this.)

✔️ Translation This one needs no explanation – you can translate your messages to and from over 20 languages in any app. It saves a lot of time since you don't need to go through the old way: write your message, copy it, open google translate, paste, translate, and copy-paste it again in iMessage/WhatsApp or what have you. Now it just takes one tap to achieve the same result.

✔️ Email Replies This one is still a very experimental feature, but I'm trying to improve it. You can open an email in almost any email app, select the style you want (interested, not interested, respectful, casual, professional, enthusiastic, annoyed, negotiation, thankful), and Auri will draft a response. For now, it works best with short emails in Apple Mail and Gmail apps.

✔️ Chat with Auri AI This is a straightforward GPT-3-powered chat. I chain your previous messages and responses as a new prompt so that you can have an actual conversation, almost like with ChatGPT. I don't store your chats, though, so the history gets deleted once you exit your current chat.

✔️ Create and Edit Notes You also get a basic text editor and note storage. Kind of like Apple Notes. The idea for future updates is to make Auri aware of your notes so you can ask her about their content in the chat.

✔️ Multilingual Keyboard I believe everyone should have access to great writing tools, so the keyboard is available in 28 languages (so far).

I take privacy very seriously and don't store any data except for your email address (which you can hide if you sign up with Apple). And I obviously promise never to share, rent or sell your email. If you use AI features, the text gets sent to OpenAI, but it does so directly from your device. The scary message from Apple about "full access" simply means that the keyboard will have access to the internet to use those abovementioned AI features.

I have many plans for Auri (including integrating OpenAI's Whisper 👀, building an Android version, a web app, a browser extension, etc.), and I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions!

Feel free to email me at [email protected] with any questions!