The best thing about Grammarly was never the grammar engine. It was the workflow. You select text, the tool does something to it, and the result lands back where you were already typing. No tab, no paste.
That shape is why it stuck.
The AI behind it is metered. You get a fixed number of generative requests a month, and writing-heavy days burn through them quickly. Past the cap, you upgrade or wait. The model is chosen for you, marked up, and rolled into a subscription — SaaS prices for inference that costs a fraction of a cent.
ElastoType keeps the workflow and removes the meter.
Select text, trigger an action, replace in place — the same shape, anywhere on your Mac.
The prompts are yours. You write them once, save them, and run them by name. Fix grammar. Translate to formal Korean. Extract action items from a thread. Turn messy notes into JSON. Explain a function. Look up what an error means. Whatever you actually do, kept as a small library instead of retyped each time.
The key is yours too. OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq — whichever provider you already pay. You pay the raw model cost. No request cap, no markup.
And it’s not only text transforms. Clipboard history, small utilities, your own custom actions — the same selection-trigger flow, used for whatever you want it to do.
Same shape Grammarly invented. Your prompts, your key, no meter.