Show HN: Yoink AI – macOS AI app that edits directly in any textfield of any app
byintes Thursday, August 28, 2025Hey HN, I built Yoink AI to solve my biggest frustration with AI tools: they constantly break my workflow. I was tired of copy-pasting between my apps and a chatbot just for simple edits.
Yoink AI is a macOS app that brings the AI to you. With a simple hotkey (⌘ Shift Y), it works directly inside any text field, in any app. If you can type there Yoink can write there
Key Features: - Automatically captures the context of the text field you're in, so you dont have to manually prime it
- Create custom voices trained on your own writing samples. This helps you steer the output to match your personal style and avoid generic, robotic-sounding text
- Yoink doesnt just dump text and run. It delivers suggestions as redline edits that you can accept or reject, keeping you in full control.
It's less of a chatbot and more of a collaborative writing partner that adapts to your workflow, not the other way around.
There's a free tier with 10 requests/month and we just launched a pro trial, which will get you 100 requests for the first 7 days to try it out!
I'm here to answer questions and would love to hear what you think - like all early stage start ups, feedback is always deeply appreciated