Can I use AI in a word processor with my own account?

Yes. Write by Zaweba has no AI of its own and nothing switched on by default, but you can connect an AI account you already have. Once connected, the AI menu and the Ask AI panel, opened with Ctrl+Alt+A, use that account to help with your writing. Without an account, Write is a complete word processor that works perfectly well on its own.

Why bring your own account

Many writing apps now come with their own AI, tied to their own subscription and their own servers. Write takes a different approach. You choose the provider, you hold the account, and the AI only runs when you ask for it. If you already pay for an AI service, or your workplace gives you one, you can use it in Write rather than signing up for something else. If you would rather not use AI at all, there is nothing to switch off.

Which providers you can connect

The choice is wide. Write can connect to Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Azure, Mistral, Grok, DeepSeek and others. It can also use a local model through Ollama, which runs on your own computer. And if you only use an AI chat website rather than a key for programs, Write can work with it by copy and paste.

Keys you enter are encrypted on your PC with Windows DPAPI, the protection Windows gives to stored secrets, rather than being kept as plain text.

What it can do once connected

The AI menu has a set of writing actions. Continue writing picks up where you left off. Rewrite offers Clearer, Shorter, Longer, More formal and Friendlier. Proofread checks the text in UK English. Summarise and Make bullet points condense a passage. Translate remembers the language you last chose. Write a title suggests one, Draft from a description writes a first draft from a short brief, and Explain makes sense of a difficult passage. With an account that can make pictures, Generate picture puts a PNG at the cursor, scaled to the width of the text.

The Ask AI panel, on Ctrl+Alt+A, is the other way in to the same help while you work on a document.

Staying in charge of the result

Every reply comes back to you before anything changes. You decide whether it replaces the selection, goes in at the cursor, goes below, opens in a new document, or is just copied. If the reply uses Markdown formatting, Write turns it into real headings, bold and lists. Each insertion is a single undo step, so Ctrl+Z removes it cleanly if it is not right.

AI writes plausible text, not always correct text. Read what it gives you, check facts, names and figures, and keep your own voice. For school work, follow your school's rules on AI.

What is sent, and when

Nothing goes anywhere until you ask. When you do, Write sends the selected text, or the whole document's text if nothing is selected (trimmed to 24,000 characters), plus Write's instructions for that action. The Context sent view shows exactly what went. Choose a local model through Ollama and the text stays on your computer.

AI in Write by Zaweba is an option you add on your own terms, not a feature that comes with strings. The word processor underneath stays free, offline and account free.