Your emails get rephrased by colleagues
You send a clear message. A teammate quietly rewrites it before it goes to the client. The edits aren't grammar — they're phrasing.
English drafting & coaching for expat professionals
Sound Like a Local, Write Like a Pro
Local Tone fixes the awkward phrasing that flags you as non-native in professional writing — emails, reviews, client updates — and adapts your drafts for the Australian, Canadian, Irish, UK, US, or Global market. Your voice stays. Only the wording that hurts your credibility changes.
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Draft
Just following up to kindly request if you might be able to provide the Q3 deck by Friday, sorry for the trouble.
- Passive-aggressive 'kindly'
- Weak, wordy hedging
- Unnecessary apology
Local Tone · AU
Could you send through the Q3 deck by Friday?
- Natural 'send through' idiom
- Direct & egalitarian
- Removes subservience
The silent credibility tax
Your English works. The phrasing is what slows you down.
Reviews hint at “communication”
Mid-year feedback mentions clarity or tone without specifics. You suspect your writing is flagging you as non-native, but nobody says it directly.
Client replies feel subtly off
Your draft is technically correct, but the response you get back is terse or confused. Somewhere in the phrasing, the room has shifted.
Local Tone fixes the exact phrasing that flags you as non-native — without rewriting your voice or stripping the personal signals that make you sound like you.
How it works
Three steps. One loop. No theory.
- 01
Paste your draft
An email, a Slack message, a report section, or a tenancy note. Works for anything from one sentence to a full page.
- 02
Get a polished rewrite with plain-English notes
You see a cleaner version in your chosen region’s English, plus short notes explaining what the engine changed and why — no grammar theory required.
- 03
Track the habits that keep repeating
The dashboard groups your recurring phrasing habits so you can watch them shrink week over week, instead of fixing the same mistake forever.
Two modes. Zero guesswork.
Switch the rewrite style to match the moment. Local Tone adapts the same core coaching for work writing and everyday life.
Professional
For emails, reports, reviews, and client-facing writing. It tightens phrasing, softens awkward edges, and keeps you credible without sounding stiff.
Daily Life
For tenancy notes, service requests, school messages, and everyday admin. It keeps things natural, clear, and locally appropriate without over-formalising the draft.
Proof · pattern tracking
You don't fix sentences. You fix habits.
Every draft you analyse feeds a private dashboard of your recurring phrasing habits. Watch over-polite hedging or redundant filler words shrink week over week, instead of correcting the same mistake forever.
Dashboard preview · last 30 days
Recurring phrasing habits
Pattern
30-day trend
Change
Count
Over-polite hedging
40%
12
Missing article (a / the)
flat
18
Redundant “actually / basically”
62%
7
Conditional stacking
25%
9
Passive voice in asks
71%
4
Region presets
One draft. Six regions. No compromise.
A request that sounds confident in Sydney can sound blunt in London and cautious in San Francisco. Pick a region and Local Tone adapts vocabulary, tone, and spelling to match the audience actually reading it.
Input
Kindly revert back with the revised figures ASAP.
Local Tone output
Could you flick through the revised figures when you have a sec?
Australian offices reject hierarchy and panic. 'Flick through' is a native idiom that gets results without sounding bossy.
Pricing
Free forever. Paid when you need more.
MonthlyAnnuallySave 20%
Start in under 60 seconds — no card required
Free
$0
Everything you need to evaluate the engine. Bring your own API key and keep using it as long as you like.
- Bring your own API key (BYOK)
- 15 analyses per month
- Top 3 corrections per draft
- Pattern tracking — last 7 days
- Professional tone · Global region
- Last 10 entries in history
- Supported by ads
Managed billing · higher limit
Starter
$5/ month
Skip the BYOK setup. Full corrections, every region, monthly coaching report.
- Managed API (no setup)
- 60 analyses per month
- All corrections shown
- Pattern tracking — last 30 days
- Professional + Daily Life tone
- All 6 regions (AU / CA / IE / UK / US / Global)
- Monthly coaching report
- Pattern history for last 6 months
- Ad-free
For heavy daily writers
Pro
$15/ month
Unlimited analyses, deeper history, on-demand coaching reports, and practice exercises.
- Everything in Starter
- Unlimited analyses
- Pattern tracking — up to 90 days
- On-demand coaching reports
- Practice exercises
- Full pattern history + JSON export
Free tier is supported by ads. Starter and Pro plans are ad-free.
BYOK in 30 seconds
Why “Bring Your Own Key” is the reason this is free.
Local Tone doesn't mark up AI usage. You connect your own provider key from Claude, Gemini, or GPT-4o, pay the provider directly (around $0.01 per analysis), and we keep Free actually free. Setup is two visible steps. Play with it here before you sign up.
Step 1 of 2Pick your AI provider
Step 2 of 2Paste your API key
Waiting for a key…
Typical cost: ~$0.01 per analysis. 15 analyses ≈ $0.15 / month. You pay your provider directly — Local Tone never marks up usage.
In the real app, your key is stored encrypted and never logged or shared. You can rotate or remove it anytime.
FAQ
Questions people ask before they start.
Do I need to be an advanced English speaker?
No. Local Tone is designed for working professionals whose English is already functional — it focuses on the last 10% of phrasing that shapes how you’re perceived, not grammar basics.
What is Bring Your Own API Key (BYOK)?
Instead of paying Local Tone for AI usage, you connect your own key from Claude, Gemini, or GPT-4o. You pay the provider directly — usually around $0.01 per analysis — and we never mark it up. Free tier includes 15 analyses per month via BYOK.
How is this different from Grammarly?
Grammarly catches spelling, grammar, and surface-level style. Local Tone targets the specific phrasing habits that make a draft sound non-local to an AU / CA / IE / UK / US reader — and tracks them over time so the same mistake stops recurring.
What regions are supported?
Australian, Canadian, Irish, British, American, and Global English. Vocabulary, idiom, and tone shift depending on which region you select, so your writing fits the audience actually reading it.
Is my writing stored or used to train AI?
No. Your drafts are sent to your chosen provider for analysis and are not used to train Local Tone or any model. Full details are in the Privacy Policy.
Can I stay on Free forever?
Yes. Free is a permanent tier — 15 analyses per month, BYOK, top-3 corrections per draft, 7-day pattern tracking, and ads. Upgrade only if you want more volume or managed billing.
Sound like a local,
Write like a pro.
Start free in under a minute. Keep your voice. Fix the phrasing that holds it back.
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