Vibecode Wordtune
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You are building a lean indie version of Wordtune. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Wordtune indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Wordtune workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Open local text or Markdown, rewrite selected sentences for tone, length, fluency, and clarity with side-by-side choices, show a diff, and save or export without uploading the document. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - browser and document integrations plus proprietary rewrite quality - cross-device sync - large proprietary style models - browser and office-suite extensions - team style guides If those capabilities are essential, use LanguageTool instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for Wordtune in an empty repository. Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, SQLite, and a small Rust filesystem layer; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: open local text or Markdown, rewrite selected sentences for tone, length, fluency, and clarity with side-by-side choices, show a diff, and save or export without uploading the document. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a three-pane editor with source text, suggestion list, and accepted-result preview. Implement deterministic checks for repeated words, sentence length, passive constructions, and typography. Add an optional API-backed rewrite action that sends only the selected passage. Show every change as an accept-or-reject diff and support undo. Import and export .txt and .md while preserving headings and lists. Persist user rules, ignored terms, and recent documents in SQLite. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out a browser extension. Deliberately leave out Office or Google Docs plugins. Deliberately leave out collaborative editing and cloud sync. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - macOS, Windows, or Linux - local files - optional OpenAI or Anthropic API key for semantic rewrites ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a lean indie version of Wordtune. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Wordtune indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Wordtune workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Open local text or Markdown, rewrite selected sentences for tone, length, fluency, and clarity with side-by-side choices, show a diff, and save or export without uploading the document. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - browser and document integrations plus proprietary rewrite quality - cross-device sync - large proprietary style models - browser and office-suite extensions - team style guides If those capabilities are essential, use LanguageTool instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for Wordtune in an empty repository. Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, SQLite, and a small Rust filesystem layer; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: open local text or Markdown, rewrite selected sentences for tone, length, fluency, and clarity with side-by-side choices, show a diff, and save or export without uploading the document. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a three-pane editor with source text, suggestion list, and accepted-result preview. Implement deterministic checks for repeated words, sentence length, passive constructions, and typography. Add an optional API-backed rewrite action that sends only the selected passage. Show every change as an accept-or-reject diff and support undo. Import and export .txt and .md while preserving headings and lists. Persist user rules, ignored terms, and recent documents in SQLite. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out a browser extension. Deliberately leave out Office or Google Docs plugins. Deliberately leave out collaborative editing and cloud sync. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - macOS, Windows, or Linux - local files - optional OpenAI or Anthropic API key for semantic rewrites ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a production product version of Wordtune. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== PRODUCT.md ===== # Wordtune product brief ## Problem The core loop is small enough for a capable coding agent to produce a useful local version in one sitting. For Wordtune, rewrite selected sentences for tone, length, fluency, and clarity with side-by-side choices. The hard boundary is browser and document integrations plus proprietary rewrite quality, plus polish, integrations, and proprietary language models. ## Product outcome Open local text or Markdown, rewrite selected sentences for tone, length, fluency, and clarity with side-by-side choices, show a diff, and save or export without uploading the document. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - macOS, Windows, or Linux - local files - optional OpenAI or Anthropic API key for semantic rewrites ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - browser and document integrations plus proprietary rewrite quality - cross-device sync - large proprietary style models - browser and office-suite extensions - team style guides ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees. ===== ARCHITECTURE.md ===== # Architecture ## Starting brief Build a personal replacement for Wordtune in an empty repository. Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, SQLite, and a small Rust filesystem layer; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: open local text or Markdown, rewrite selected sentences for tone, length, fluency, and clarity with side-by-side choices, show a diff, and save or export without uploading the document. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a three-pane editor with source text, suggestion list, and accepted-result preview. Implement deterministic checks for repeated words, sentence length, passive constructions, and typography. Add an optional API-backed rewrite action that sends only the selected passage. Show every change as an accept-or-reject diff and support undo. Import and export .txt and .md while preserving headings and lists. Persist user rules, ignored terms, and recent documents in SQLite. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out a browser extension. Deliberately leave out Office or Google Docs plugins. Deliberately leave out collaborative editing and cloud sync. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone. ===== MILESTONES.md ===== # Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations. ===== OPERATIONS.md ===== # Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Wordtune capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
# Wordtune indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Wordtune workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Open local text or Markdown, rewrite selected sentences for tone, length, fluency, and clarity with side-by-side choices, show a diff, and save or export without uploading the document. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - browser and document integrations plus proprietary rewrite quality - cross-device sync - large proprietary style models - browser and office-suite extensions - team style guides If those capabilities are essential, use LanguageTool instead of pretending the gap is solved.
# Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs".
# Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for Wordtune in an empty repository. Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, SQLite, and a small Rust filesystem layer; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: open local text or Markdown, rewrite selected sentences for tone, length, fluency, and clarity with side-by-side choices, show a diff, and save or export without uploading the document. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a three-pane editor with source text, suggestion list, and accepted-result preview. Implement deterministic checks for repeated words, sentence length, passive constructions, and typography. Add an optional API-backed rewrite action that sends only the selected passage. Show every change as an accept-or-reject diff and support undo. Import and export .txt and .md while preserving headings and lists. Persist user rules, ignored terms, and recent documents in SQLite. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out a browser extension. Deliberately leave out Office or Google Docs plugins. Deliberately leave out collaborative editing and cloud sync. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - macOS, Windows, or Linux - local files - optional OpenAI or Anthropic API key for semantic rewrites ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden.
# Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
# Wordtune product brief ## Problem The core loop is small enough for a capable coding agent to produce a useful local version in one sitting. For Wordtune, rewrite selected sentences for tone, length, fluency, and clarity with side-by-side choices. The hard boundary is browser and document integrations plus proprietary rewrite quality, plus polish, integrations, and proprietary language models. ## Product outcome Open local text or Markdown, rewrite selected sentences for tone, length, fluency, and clarity with side-by-side choices, show a diff, and save or export without uploading the document. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - macOS, Windows, or Linux - local files - optional OpenAI or Anthropic API key for semantic rewrites ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - browser and document integrations plus proprietary rewrite quality - cross-device sync - large proprietary style models - browser and office-suite extensions - team style guides ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees.
# Architecture ## Starting brief Build a personal replacement for Wordtune in an empty repository. Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, SQLite, and a small Rust filesystem layer; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: open local text or Markdown, rewrite selected sentences for tone, length, fluency, and clarity with side-by-side choices, show a diff, and save or export without uploading the document. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a three-pane editor with source text, suggestion list, and accepted-result preview. Implement deterministic checks for repeated words, sentence length, passive constructions, and typography. Add an optional API-backed rewrite action that sends only the selected passage. Show every change as an accept-or-reject diff and support undo. Import and export .txt and .md while preserving headings and lists. Persist user rules, ignored terms, and recent documents in SQLite. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out a browser extension. Deliberately leave out Office or Google Docs plugins. Deliberately leave out collaborative editing and cloud sync. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it.
# Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone.
# Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations.
# Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Wordtune capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
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People still pay for Wordtune because the paid tool is already present everywhere they write and its suggestions have been tuned across millions of documents. The recurring cost buys model quality, extension compatibility, dictionaries, releases, and sync, not just the visible interface.
xbrowser and document integrations plus proprietary rewrite quality
xcross-device sync
xlarge proprietary style models
xbrowser and office-suite extensions
xteam style guides
Don't feel like building it? These folks already made it free.
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Wordtune pricing
| plan | monthly | annual (per mo) | what you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| basic | $0/user | $0/user | 10 rewrites and AI suggestions/day; 3 AI summarizations/month; unlimited spelling and grammar checks |
| advanced | — | $6.99/user | 30 rewrites and AI suggestions/day; 15 AI summarizations/month; unlimited AI recommendations, spelling and grammar |
| unlimited | — | $9.99/user | Unlimited rewrites, AI suggestions, AI summarizations, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, clarity and fluency |
free tier10 rewrites and AI suggestions/day, 3 AI summarizations/month, unlimited spelling corrections and grammar checks; separate AI-generation cap not numerically published
billingmonthly + annual (annual advertised as 50% off); paid plans offer a 3-day trial that requires payment details and auto-charges afterward
hidden costsNo refunds; the 3-day trial converts automatically unless canceled. Academic/nonprofit discount is 30% but cannot stack with annual-billing savings.
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Vibecode Wordtune
Yes. A competent AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) can build a usable personal Wordtune replacement in one session with the prompt on this page. It runs on your own machine or server with no subscription.
How much does Wordtune cost?
Wordtune costs about $6.99/month (Advanced, checked 2026-08-12), which is $83.88 per year. That's what you save by replacing it with one prompt.
What do I lose by replacing Wordtune?
Honestly: browser and document integrations plus proprietary rewrite quality; cross-device sync; large proprietary style models; browser and office-suite extensions; team style guides. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Wordtune?
Yes: Page Assist (A browser sidebar that reads the page, rewrites the selection, and saves custom actions; your local model does the thinking.) Writing Tools (Select text anywhere, hit a hotkey, and fix, rewrite, summarize, or obey a custom instruction without opening another tab.) Witsy (System-wide selected-text commands, reusable experts, a scratchpad, and document context; bring the model and skip the subscription.) All 4 curated free alternatives are at vibecodeit.com/wordtune/alternatives. The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.