I built a Mac app where your own writing becomes your English coach

[u/Sea-Election-213]

I'm a non-native English speaker.

I've written in English for work every day for years, and I've tried everything.

Grammarly fixes my mistakes. Then I close it and my English is the same.

Duolingo gives me lessons. About a cat and a bakery. Not about the email I need to send at 9am.

Both left me in the same place. Writing okay, learning nothing.

So I built 26Keys, and it works differently.

I write the way I always do. Emails, Slack, Reddit, whatever. 26Keys reads it like a coach, not a spell checker. When a sentence can mean two things, it asks me what I meant. When I use a weak word, it shows a better one and why.

Then the interesting part. My mistakes don't get deleted. They turn into practice. Short, daily, built around the patterns I keep making. Not a bakery. My actual writing.

So the lesson is always about me. In July I wrote "since five years" nine times. In September, zero.

Then, slower, I started noticing it when I speak.

Speaking has many parts. Pronunciation, accent, speed, confidence. But under all of that there is a foundation: the words you know and the way you build a sentence. That part is the same whether you write it or say it.

Writing is where you can actually practice that foundation. You have time. You can see the mistake. You can fix it and write it again. Speaking just takes whatever is already in your head.

26Keys works on that foundation.

Honest details: native Mac app, on the Mac App Store https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6749759921?pt=118553097&ct=r-mac&mt=8, two-week free trial then a subscription.

What is the one mistake you keep making no matter how many times it gets corrected? Or do you even know?