My understanding is that Apple Intelligence should work with all or most third-party apps.
Does anyone know if It will work with iA Writer and Scrivener?
I don’t know for certain, but from what I understand as long as these apps use native text it should just be there
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It works with iA Writer in the beta. Basically there is a new menu item in the context menu (writing tools) that is there. I have found it in several apps but not in other apps which customize the context menu a lot. I am assuming you can include that entry by setting some toggle to allow MacOS menu options in your app’s menu as a developer.
I haven’t tried with Scrivener yet but will check it out.
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Confirm, works with iA Writer, Scrivener, and other native (Swift-based?) apps. Does not work with electrons (Obsidian, Notion).
BTW, AppleInt appears really basic at this point (more like a simple language/grammar tool), nowhere close to ChatGPT or Claude. And maybe it’s only my impression, but with the new “intelligence” Siri seems even more lost, confused and miserable than before 
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Well, at least half of your response was encouraging. 
My hope is that over the next 12 months Apple Intelligence will be good enough for me to replace Grammarly. Only time will tell.
Based on the apps that I have, it works with:
- iA Writer
- Day One
- Tot
- BBEdit
- Scrivener
- Agenda
Does not work with:
- Scrivener (works with icon)
- Agenda (works with icon)
- Obsidian
- Standard Notes
It does work in Scrivener. After selecting text, an icon appears in the margin:
Click on the icon and a menu appears:
This is with the latest Scrivener and Beta Sequoia.
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Thanks, you are correct. The icon works, though I always have to wait a few seconds for it to appear. I have checked the other apps again and the icon shows up in Agenda too.
Updated my list from before. I thought the icon would only show for apps that have the menu option but looks like it isn’t the case and some apps get the icon but no menu entry. I could not get the icon to show in Tot at all even though the menu option is there.
If my memory serves (and it frequently does not!) originally it was in the menu but then in a more recent beta it moved to having the icon.
I also see the icon in Eazydraw and Nisus Writer.
I’m hoping third parties don’t rely entirely on Apple’s AI just because it’s easy, and there will be ways to easily embed other tools. If Siri is anything to go by there will be better third party AI alternatives.
A bit of a sidenote: If anyone wants to play with Apple’s on-device ML framework for running ML engines on Apple Silicon, MLX, support is now available in LM Studio (free).
Are the writing tools working on iPad OS for apps like Scrivener? That could add a lot of value, I’m not a fan of the Grammarly implementation on ipad OS and my writing tool of choice (ProWritingAid) has nothing at all for iPad OS.
I was also hoping that Apple Intelligence would replace my Grammarly subscription. However, based on the beta versions of Apple Intelligence, I’m not holding my breath.
Apple Intelligence is not nearly aggressive enough. It may be better with the public release, but it may not if it continues to follow the beta approach.
My hope is that it will improve significantly over the next 12 months. I plan to keep Grammarly for one more year and then decide what to do. My employer pays for it, so I have little time, but I want to be a good steward of the school’s resources.
My guess is that this will be more common with Apple-only apps than cross-platform ones.
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There already is, it’s called “Services”. Been around forever. It just looks like Apple has more aesthetically integrated Apple Intelligence, but there is no reason it couldn’t have been in the Services menu. Sadly the Services menu, at least on my system, looks overgrown with trash.
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