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Detailed guides, practical examples, and clear explanations for writing better replies in Apple Mail.
Your first five minutes
Install and set up LittleDraft
Install the Mac app, connect your account, grant the permissions you need, and prepare your first reply.
Draft your first reply
Go from an open email to a complete reply while keeping control of recipients, wording, signatures, and sending.
Private AI and offline drafting
Use Apple Intelligence on your Mac with Pro, understand setup and language requirements, and keep AI processing local.
Cloud AI uses an online service. Pro Private Mode drafts on a compatible Mac after activation, with English and German currently supported. Every workflow leaves sending in your hands.
Start here
Install and set up LittleDraft
Install the Mac app, connect your account, grant the permissions you need, and prepare your first reply.
Draft your first reply
Go from an open email to a complete reply while keeping control of recipients, wording, signatures, and sending.
Install updates and find release notes
Keep the app current, understand update checks, and use the changelog without confusing version numbers and billing status.
Writing replies
Quick actions and better instructions
Use accept, decline, and short custom directions to produce complete replies with the facts and decisions you actually intend.
Learn your writing style
Build separate local profiles from selected Sent folders and use them to shape greetings, phrasing, tone, and reply length.
Tone, length, and reply defaults
Choose a voice and amount of detail that fit the conversation without changing the underlying facts.
New emails, documents, and letters
Start a message from a brief or bring in a letter, scan, or document when there is no selected incoming Mail conversation.
Translation and reply language
Understand an incoming message, write in the conversation’s language, and review a translated reply before sending.
Context and knowledge
Capture Context from another app
Capture visible information once, recognize text locally, and make the saved facts available to relevant replies.
Reference Library and document import
Keep useful policies, product information, and captured text locally, then let relevant excerpts support your replies.
Inspect context and check accuracy
See the evidence used for a reply, separate style from facts, and review important claims before sending.
Little Engine online research
Use current public sources to inform a reply, inspect the evidence, and distinguish research from ordinary drafting.
AI and privacy
Private AI and offline drafting
Use Apple Intelligence on your Mac with Pro, understand setup and language requirements, and keep AI processing local.
Cloud AI and processing modes
Understand what is sent for cloud generation, how it differs from Private Mode, and what reply credits cover.
Privacy, permissions, and your choices
Understand which macOS permissions each feature needs and what happens locally, in the cloud, and when you send an email.
Automation
App controls
Menu bar and keyboard shortcuts
Open the right writing workflow quickly and configure shortcuts without clashing with Mail or other applications.
Overview, readiness, and time saved
Use the dashboard to check account allowances, Mail access, writing profiles, and the state of the assistant.
Account, plans, and credits
Understand the free trial, Basic and Pro Monthly, activation, cloud allowances, renewal, and cancellation.
Preferences and advanced controls
Understand automatic opening, insertion, shortcut drafting, learned choices, language defaults, and the advanced cloud engine.
Help
What’s changed
Every update, in one place.
Browse the published notes and past release history.