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Email Support@eddie.mediaOpen Preferences with ⌘, and select your AI provider from the tabs at the top: Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, or Custom. For cloud providers, enter your API key in the inline field that appears; a green dot confirms it is valid. For the Custom option, enter your local server URL and model name instead. AI features become available as soon as your configuration is valid.
AI Eddie supports Anthropic (Claude models), Google (Gemini models), Meta (Llama models via Together AI), OpenAI (GPT models), and Custom: any OpenAI-compatible local model server such as Ollama or LM Studio running on your Mac. The Custom option requires no API key and keeps all your writing completely on-device.
API keys are obtained directly from your chosen provider: Anthropic, Google AI Studio, Together AI for Meta Llama, or OpenAI. Each provider has their own pricing.
No API key needed for local models: Download Ollama: free, open-source, and runs entirely on your Mac. After installing, pull a model with ollama pull llama3.2 and point Eddie's Custom provider to http://localhost:11434/v1.
Your API keys are stored in the macOS Keychain. If you have iCloud Keychain enabled, they will sync to your other Macs automatically. If not, you will need to enter them separately on each Mac.
Open a draft document and show the Advisory panel with ⌘⇧A. Select the advisors you want to evaluate your draft, then click Run. Each advisor will return feedback from their unique perspective. Use the Insights panel (⌘⇧G) to review their responses.
After your advisors have evaluated your draft, the Editor-in-Chief synthesizes their feedback into a single set of edits. Before running it, you can adjust how much weight each advisor's input carries. The result is a revised draft that reflects your priorities.
Open the Advisors panel and click the + button to create a new advisor. Give it a name, define its evaluation focus, and describe what excellent writing looks like from its perspective. You can model it on the included Starter Pack advisors or build from scratch.
Yes. Eddie automatically stores your Advisor library in iCloud Drive so it stays in sync across all your Macs. No setup is required. If you are signed into iCloud and iCloud Drive is enabled, Eddie uses it by default.
The first time you run an iCloud-enabled version of Eddie, your existing Advisors are copied to iCloud automatically. After that, any Advisor you create, edit, or delete on one Mac will appear on your other Macs the next time you open the app.
If iCloud is not available (because you are not signed in, or because you have turned off Eddie under System Settings → Apple ID → iCloud → iCloud Drive → Apps syncing to iCloud Drive), Eddie falls back to local storage and your library continues to work normally.
Community Advisors is a free sharing platform built into AI Eddie. Browse advisors created and rated by other Eddie users, import the ones that fit your work, and share your own. A free eddie.media account is required to access Community Advisors.
AI Eddie currently runs on macOS. We plan to bring Eddie to iPad and iPhone in the future.
To delete your eddie.media Community Exchange account and all associated data, email us at support@eddie.media with the subject "Delete my account." We will process your request within 7 days.
No. Your documents stay on your Mac. AI Eddie never stores or transmits your content to our servers. When you submit a draft for AI feedback using a cloud provider, it is sent directly to that provider and governed by their privacy policy. You control what gets submitted and when.
For complete privacy, use the Custom provider option with a local model such as Ollama. In this configuration, nothing leaves your Mac at all. Not even to an AI provider. Read our Privacy Policy.
A voiceprint is an editable portrait of how you write: your persona and tone, your sentence shapes, your diction, your punctuation habits, and a few of your own passages as examples. Eddie's Editor-in-Chief can use it to keep your voice recognizable when it revises a draft, so the edits sound like you rather than like a generic AI.
Choose New Voiceprint, then add a few writing samples that you feel represent your voice and label each one's genre (an email, an essay, a blog post). Eddie sends those samples to your chosen AI provider, which derives the voiceprint and returns it. You then review the result, edit any part of it, give it a name, and save. You are the final judge of what it says about your writing.
Your samples are sent to the AI provider you have chosen to derive the voiceprint, then dropped from memory. Eddie does not save them to disk or send them anywhere else, and they are never stored on a What How server. The finished voiceprint is kept as a file in your own iCloud, not on our servers, and under the providers' API terms your samples are not used to train their models. If you build your voiceprint with a local model using the Custom provider, your samples never leave your Mac at all, the same as your drafts. See our Privacy Policy for the full detail.
You decide, with a fidelity dial in the Editor-in-Chief. At the highest setting Eddie preserves your voice as faithfully as possible and applies the advisors only where they do not alter it. At the lowest, your voice is treated as a light hint and the advisors lead. The middle keeps your voice recognizable while freely applying the advisors' improvements. The dial is a floor: it governs how much of the advisors' reshaping is allowed to touch your voice.
Yes. Every element of a voiceprint is editable: open it, change or delete any line, and swap the example passages. If a voiceprint does not feel right, Remake re-runs it from fresh samples in one step. You can also delete a voiceprint at any time.
Yes. You keep a single writing voice, but you can build more than one voiceprint of it: think of them as portraits of the same voice, each derived through a different AI model's lens. That makes it easy to compare how different models capture your voice, or to keep distinct voiceprints for different kinds of writing. Eddie shows the model that built each one, so you can tell them apart.
Exactly one voiceprint is active at a time, and the Editor-in-Chief uses whichever is active. Choose it with Voice → Select, which lists your voiceprints as "name and creation model" with a checkmark on the active one. Creating a new voiceprint activates it. If you delete the active voiceprint and others remain, Eddie activates one of them; delete the last and you are back to none.
Voice-matching works best on the kinds of writing you do most often, and on samples with some length and variety. It is naturally weaker on short, casual, or highly personal writing, which is an honest limit of the technology rather than something we hide. Adding more samples across a wider range of genres makes a voiceprint stronger.
Open Settings with ⌘, and scroll to the Accessibility section at the bottom. Use the +/− stepper next to Editor Text Size to choose any size from 12pt to 28pt. A live preview line shows exactly how your text will look before you commit. The setting applies only to the draft editor; all other text in the app follows the system font size. Your choice is saved automatically and persists across launches.
Yes. When Reduce Motion is turned on, Eddie replaces all sliding and expanding animations with simple fades, including advisory session expand/collapse, the "Session saved" indicator, category headers in the Community Advisor Exchange, and row-selection animations. To enable it: System Settings → Accessibility → Motion → Reduce motion. The change takes effect immediately with no need to restart Eddie.
Yes. With Keyboard Navigation enabled in System Settings → Keyboard, all interactive controls are reachable by Tab. Tag filter pills in the Community Advisor Exchange each take a single Tab press and toggle with Space. The star rating control accepts Tab focus and responds to arrow keys (up/right to increment, down/left to decrement) as well as number keys 1–5 to set a rating directly. Focused controls display an accent-color focus ring. To enable keyboard navigation: System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Navigation.
Yes. Eddie adapts automatically to macOS light and dark appearance. No setting required. All interface colors are system-adaptive, so switching appearance in System Settings → Appearance takes effect immediately. Eddie does not override or lock the system appearance.
Yes. Eddie provides structural VoiceOver support throughout the app.
In the Community Advisor Exchange, advisor rows announce the author and community rating as a single combined label. Category headers announce their expanded or collapsed state and respond to VO+Space to toggle. The star rating control is fully adjustable: navigate to it, then press VO+Up Arrow to increment and VO+Down Arrow to decrement; each step is announced. You can also Tab to the stars and use arrow keys or number keys 1–5.
Within advisory session cards, the five section headings (Overall Impression, Strengths, Concerns, Suggestions, and Questions) are exposed as navigable headings. Open the VoiceOver Item Chooser with VO+U, arrow to Headings, and jump between sections across all advisor cards.
To enable VoiceOver: press ⌘F5, or open System Settings → Accessibility → VoiceOver → Enable VoiceOver. VoiceOver modifier = Ctrl+Option (VO).
Yes. All buttons and interactive controls in Eddie have accessibility labels that Voice Control recognises. You can say "click [label]" to activate any control. For example: "click Run Advisory Session", "click Invoke Editor-in-Chief", "click Refresh Advisors", or "click Increase Editor Text Size".
If a control name isn't obvious, say "show numbers". Voice Control overlays a number on every interactive element and you can say "click 3" (or the relevant number) to activate it.
Note: when a text field has keyboard focus, Voice Control is in dictation mode and will type what you say. Click or Tab away from the text field first to issue navigation commands.
To enable Voice Control: System Settings → Accessibility → Voice Control → Enable Voice Control.
Yes. When Increase Contrast is turned on, Eddie raises the opacity of low-contrast surfaces across the app — star rating tracks, model badges, status pills, text-editor borders, tag pill backgrounds, selection highlights, and configuration-error chrome — so they remain comfortably above WCAG 2.1 AA contrast minimums (4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for UI controls). The change is automatic; no Eddie setting required. The normal-mode design is preserved unchanged when the system setting is off.
One surface goes a step further: the Configuration Error Banner (shown if Eddie is misconfigured) swaps its text color from orange to the standard label color when Increase Contrast is on, so the message stays clearly readable on the orange tint.
To enable: System Settings → Accessibility → Display → Increase contrast. The change takes effect immediately with no need to restart Eddie.