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Show HN: Charm – on-device spelling, grammar, and prediction for macOS

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I've spent the last year building Charm, a native macOS menu bar app that corrects spelling, fixes grammar, and predicts your next word.Three features:- Spells: NSSpellChecker plus a local LLM for context-aware corrections (catches "definately" -> "definitely" without the false positives macOS autocorrect is known for). - Polish: sentence-level grammar fixes triggered at punctuation boundaries. - Oracle: next-word prediction, Tab to accept.100% local. Choose Gemma 2 2B or Qwen 2.5 3B; the model downloads once from HuggingFace on first use, then everything runs on your Mac. No cloud option exists, no accounts, no API keys, no telemetry. The model auto-unloads after 5 minutes idle so the RAM c

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Website: www.theodorehq.com/charm