Apps and languages

Where Lyra works

Lyra works in standard text boxes across macOS, including:

• Email: Apple Mail, Outlook, Gmail and other webmail in Safari or Chrome
• Chat: Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Messages, Discord, LinkedIn
• Documents and notes: Word, Pages, Notes, Notion
• AI apps: Claude, and the Claude Code chat box in VS Code

If an app isn't listed, try it. Most apps work without any setup.

Where Lyra stays quiet on purpose

• Password fields. Lyra never reads or writes them.
• Terminals and code editors: Terminal, iTerm2, Warp, VS Code, Cursor, Xcode and Sublime Text. Code isn't prose, and “fixing” it would break it. In VS Code, Lyra still works in the Claude Code chat box.
• Browser address bars.
• Lyra's own windows.

To switch Lyra off in any other app or website, see Turn Lyra off in one app.

App notes

Slack, Teams, Discord, Notion and Claude

These apps don't accept typed edits the usual way, so Lyra accepts a suggestion by selecting your text and pasting the new version over it. Your clipboard is put back as it was straight afterwards.

Outlook

Lyra only rewrites what you typed. Your signature and the quoted email thread below are left alone. Pasting text into Outlook doesn't trigger a suggestion.

Gmail and Outlook tone changes

Select the text before pressing ⌘⌘. With nothing selected, Lyra leaves the email alone instead of guessing which part you meant.

Long replies in Chrome

When your cursor is far above the end of the text, as when you're typing above a long quoted reply, Lyra holds back rather than risk editing the wrong part.

Languages

English runs entirely on your Mac, in British or American spelling (choose which). Romanised Hinglish also stays on your Mac, and Lyra keeps it as Hinglish.

Every other language, including French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Hindi and Polish, needs Lyra Cloud. Without it, text in another language gets no suggestion at all. That's on purpose: a small on-device model can translate your writing into English by accident, so Lyra leaves it alone instead.

Right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew are supported: the marker appears on the correct side of your cursor.

To translate a selection into English, select it and press ⌘⌘, then choose English.

An app that doesn't work?

Tell us which app and what happened, via Chat to founder in Lyra's menu bar panel or by email to founder@heylyra.co.uk. Fixes for specific apps ship regularly in the release notes.