Privacy guide

Private AI writing assistant for macOS

Qelvora is built for people who want AI writing correction without moving every draft into a hosted editor. It runs as a native macOS menu bar utility and sends selected text to local Ollama models on your machine.

What problem does Qelvora solve?

Most writing assistants expect you to paste text into a web app or send it to a remote API. That can be fine for public copy, but it is uncomfortable for customer replies, investor updates, support notes, bug reports, internal planning, and anything that should remain close to your device.

Qelvora focuses on the narrow daily workflow: select text in a Mac app, trigger the correction action, review the result, and copy the polished version back where you were already working.

Why local models matter

Local inference gives you more control over where text is processed. With Ollama installed, Qelvora can use model families such as Gemma, Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, Mistral, Llama, or Phi as local writing engines. The best model depends on your hardware, language, and preferred writing style.

This matters most when the text is not just marketing copy. A private assistant is useful when the draft contains names, support details, product decisions, financial context, legal wording, or internal project notes that should not be copied into another hosted workspace just to fix grammar or tone.

Who should use it?

Qelvora is useful for founders, developers, support teams, privacy-first operators, and independent builders who write inside many different macOS apps. It is especially relevant when the goal is fast correction, rewriting, or translation rather than long-form document generation.

How it fits into a Mac workflow

The point is not to replace your editor. Qelvora is designed as a correction layer around the apps you already use. Select the sentence or paragraph, trigger the action, check the proposed result, then return to the original task.

For the practical setup, read the local Ollama text correction guide. For model choices, the local LLM writing guide explains which families are worth testing first.

Quick takeaway

Qelvora is a private AI writing assistant for macOS that corrects, rewrites, and translates selected text with local Ollama models instead of a cloud writing service.