Rewire Text 1.1.0: custom transforms and chaining

It has been a good few weeks. Rewire Text has been downloaded by hundreds of people, and the first purchases are coming in. Thank you. If you are one of them, I hope it is already saving you some copying and pasting.

Version 1.1.0 is out today. Here is what is new, plus a few improvements that landed in the 1.0 patch releases since launch.

Custom transforms. You can now save your own AI instruction as a reusable transform. Give it a name and it appears in the list under Custom as “Custom: your name”, ready to run like any built-in one. No retyping the instruction every time.

The obvious use is a personal rewrite. Make a transform called “Rewrite in my voice” and put your actual style guidance in the prompt: how long your sentences run, the words you lean on and the ones you avoid, whether you use contractions, how you open and sign off an email. Then select any draft, run it, and the text comes back sounding like you wrote it. A shorter example: “Turn rough notes into a clear standup update.” You can create, edit, and delete presets in Settings › Transforms, and pick which model tier each one runs at (Light, Standard, or Advanced).

Chaining transforms. Sometimes one pass is not enough. Say you want to summarize a wall of text and then make the summary more casual. There are two ways to do that now. In the command palette, run a transform, then press Tab to feed the result back in as the input for the next one. Chain as many as you like without leaving the palette, and undo and redo work the whole way, so you can step back if a step went sideways. In the full window, the Use as input button copies the output back into the input box, so you can stack transforms one at a time.

Better usage and cost tracking. Rewire Text has always counted the tokens each AI transform uses. Now it also knows what most models cost, from an up-to-date pricing catalog that refreshes on its own, so the running total is a real dollar figure and not just token counts. Treat it as an estimate, but a close one. You will find it in Settings.

Jump to the full window mid-task. You start in the command palette, then realize you want more room to experiment. You can move straight to the full window and keep your text and the transform you had selected. Press your app hotkey a second time while the palette is open, or click the expand icon in its top-right corner. If you used Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows) for this before, note that it now accepts the current result instead.

And a lot of smaller things. xAI’s Grok is now a built-in AI provider. You can set Rewire Text to launch at login and start quietly in the menu bar or tray. Title Case follows proper headline rules now, and Slugify keeps contractions whole. The command palette remembers its size between uses. The changelog has the full list.

Some of these changes came straight from user feedback, including a couple I would not have prioritized on my own. I am still actively working on Rewire Text, and I would rather build what people actually use. So if something is missing, awkward, or almost-but-not-quite right, tell me. You can get in touch here.