Think in your language,ship it in clean English
If English is your second language, every ticket, comment and stakeholder reply costs you twice: once to decide what to say, once to fight the grammar. Khint puts Correct and Rephrase behind one keyboard shortcut, in every app: select your draft, run the action, and the polished version lands back exactly where you wrote it.
The chatbot detour taxes every sentence,
the polish should come to your cursor
Plenty of people already fix their English with AI: by keeping a chatbot tab open, pasting each draft in, asking for a correction, and copying the answer back. That round trip is slow enough that you only do it for the important messages, so the everyday ones ship rough. Khint inverts it: the Agents pillar keeps your rewrites saved as one-keystroke actions, and the result is pasted in place, which makes polishing cheap enough to do on every comment, not just the scary ones. The actions-versus-copy-paste page covers that mechanic in depth; this page is about what it does for the person writing in their second language all day.
From rough draft to native-sounding in five moves
Every step runs from the same palette shortcut, in the app you are already in.
Write the draft the fast way: in your own words
Type your Jira comment, sprint update or spec paragraph the way it comes out: mixed prepositions, missing articles, a sentence structure borrowed from your first language. Getting the content down is the part that needs your brain. Making it read native is the part you are about to delegate.
Select it and open the palette
Select the draft right where you wrote it and press Cmd+Shift+K. The palette opens over any app with your saved actions: no switching to a browser, no pasting your text into a chat thread, no copying the answer back out.
Run Correct for grammar, Rephrase for flow
Khint ships with Correct and Rephrase already saved. Correct fixes the grammar and keeps your sentence; Rephrase rewrites it into natural English when the original reads translated. The result is pasted back in place of your selection. Your comment box now holds the clean version, cursor still where you left it.
Save the rewrites you need every day
The generic pass is rarely the whole job. Create your own Actionsfor the rewrites you repeat: “expand my shorthand into a full acceptance-criteria comment”, “make this pushback diplomatic”, “formal tone for the steering committee”. Describe the instruction in one line and Generate drafts the prompt for you. Pin your top rewrites and they launch from number keys 1–9.
Keep your product's vocabulary straight with Memory
The hardest part of second-language product writing is consistency: is it “workspace” or “project” this quarter? With a Memory session active, every Action also reads a compacted summary of what you have been working on, so the polish that comes back uses the ticket names and feature terms from your actual work session, not a generic synonym.
Polish is the floor, your voice is the point
Grammar checkers stop at correct. The reason to put a saved prompt behind the shortcut instead is that your recurring rewrites are yours: the diplomatic-pushback rewrite, the expand-my-shorthand rewrite, the one that keeps your product's exact terminology because a Memory session is feeding it context. The same mechanics carry the bigger jobs too: when the document itself needs restructuring, see PRD polish or Jira ticket quality, and when the deliverable is an email to stakeholders, the stakeholder update page picks up from here.
Common questions
Which apps does the English polish work in?
Any app where you can select text: the Jira comment box, a Confluence page, Slack, your email client, a plain text editor. Khint is a menu-bar app for macOS and Windows. You select what you wrote, press the palette shortcut, pick an action, and the corrected version is pasted back exactly where the draft was. There is no Khint window to write in and no chatbot tab to copy from; the fix happens inside the tool you were already using.
What is the difference between Correct and Rephrase?
Correct fixes without rewriting: grammar, articles, prepositions, spelling. Your sentence, made right. Rephrase goes further and restates the idea in more natural English, which is what you want when a sentence is technically correct but reads translated. Both ship as saved Actions on a fresh install, so the day-one experience is select, shortcut, done. When neither fits, you write your own Action with the exact instruction you need.
Does my draft leave my machine?
Only the text you selected is sent for processing: not your screen, not the rest of the document, not your clipboard history. Memory sessions, if you use them, stay in a local database on your machine and are never synced to the cloud. And each Action has an opt-in Redact PII switch that replaces emails, phone numbers and similar identifiers with placeholders before the text is sent, which matters when the paragraph you are fixing quotes a customer.
Can I teach it my team's tone instead of generic business English?
Yes, that is what custom Actions are for. Describe the rewrite you keep needing ("make this direct but polite, keep my technical terms, British spelling") and the editor's Generate button drafts the prompt for you; Improve refines it in place later. Save the ones you use daily into a pack and pin your favorites, so your two or three house-style rewrites sit at the top of the palette with number keys 1–9 to launch them instantly.
Stop paying the second-language tax on every message
Free with 10 AI actions and 5 captures per day. No credit card. Correct and Rephrase are ready on first launch. Your own rewrites take a minute to add.