Pismo
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveDesktop hotkey that rewrites, translates, shortens or proofreads the text you selected in any Mac or Windows app.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
- Paid options from
- $9/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Priced in euros, not dollars: EUR 8/month or EUR 75/year (about EUR 6.25/month), with a 30-day money-back guarantee and a one-week free trial when you download the app. The $9 figure is an approximate conversion of the monthly rate, not a published dollar price. Both plans carry identical features, including unlimited devices and unlimited requests.
Use tool ↗About Pismo
Pismo sits outside the app you are typing in. Select text anywhere — mail client, document, chat window, browser field — press a hotkey, and it rewrites for clarity, changes tone, expands or shortens, translates, or fixes spelling and grammar in place, with no copying into a separate tab. You can save your own prompts and bind them to shortcuts, so a repeated editing pass runs without retyping the instruction. It runs as a native application on macOS and Windows and needs an internet connection to work. The vendor states it does not store or process the texts you work with. It is built by 3F Venture Studio and lists an address in Luxembourg, with subscriptions priced in euros and a one-week trial on download.
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- System-wide text improvement, translation, tone and length control, custom prompts with hotkeys, native Mac and Windows apps, Luxembourg address, built by 3F Venture Studiopismo.ai ↗
- EUR 8/month and EUR 75/year pricing, 30-day money-back guarantee, one-week free trial, unlimited devices and requestspismo.ai ↗
Is Pismo legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Jul 4, 2023 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar EuroDNS S.A., looked up Sep 12, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Jan 2, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Pismo (3F Venture Studio), LuxembourgOur research, card verified Aug 23, 2026
Pros & cons of Pismo
The whole value is that it works where you already are: no tab switch, no paste, just select and press a key in whatever application you happen to be in. Custom prompts bound to hotkeys make repeated editing passes cheap. It is a thin layer over a model, priced accordingly, and the euro pricing with unlimited requests is unusually simple.
Pros
- Works in any macOS or Windows application via a system-wide hotkey
- Rewrite, tone change, expand, shorten, translate and proofread from one selection
- Custom prompts saveable and bindable to their own shortcuts
- Unlimited requests and unlimited devices on both plans
- Vendor states it does not store or process the texts you send
Cons
- No free tier — only a one-week trial
- Requires an internet connection, so nothing works offline
- Priced in euros, so the dollar cost moves with the exchange rate
- No API, no browser extension and no Linux build
- A small studio-backed product with a thin public track record
Best for
- Editing text inside apps that have no AI features of their own
- Non-native speakers fixing tone and grammar across email and chat
- Repeating the same editing instruction via a saved prompt and hotkey
Not for
- Long-form drafting, which wants a dedicated editor
- Offline work, since the app requires an internet connection
Watch out: Pricing is in euros (EUR 8/month, EUR 75/year), so the dollar figure here is a conversion. Card charges will vary with the exchange rate and any foreign-transaction fee.
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