A rewriter that cleans the AI out of your writing.
In one line: RefineIQ is a Chrome extension that rewrites what you dictate or type so it stops reading like AI. The rewrite runs on a secure backend, and your text is never stored, logged, or used to train a model.
What RefineIQ does
You select a rough draft in any text field, on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any site with a text box, and RefineIQ rewrites it so it stops sounding like AI. Two modes set how hard it pushes: Sound Human (CEO Mode) is the flagship, short, direct, confident; Clean up is the lighter pass that keeps your wording and just fixes the slop. It preserves your intent, never invents facts, and returns plain text. You can trigger it from the in-page Refine pill, the keyboard shortcut Alt+Shift+R, the popup scratchpad, or by speaking a draft with Voice Draft (Alt+Shift+V).
Why we built it
A rewriter reads some of the most revealing text you produce: half-formed ideas, work fragments, client names, unshipped code. Most tools in this category hold onto that stream, log it, or feed it back into training. We took the other path. The RefineIQ backend rewrites your text and then drops it. We never store it, never log it, and never train on it. Privacy as a rule we enforce, not a promise that could drift.
How it works, briefly
- Rewriting runs on a secure backend. Your text is sent over HTTPS, rewritten, and returned. It is never stored, never logged, and never used to train any model.
- Account and credits. You sign in with a RefineIQ account and start with credits. Each cloud rewrite spends one, so you pay only for what you use.
- Voice stays local. Voice Draft transcribes your speech on your device with a small open model; audio is never stored and never uploaded. RefineIQ deliberately avoids the browser’s built-in speech recognition because Chrome implements it server-side.
Built to hold nothing
Not storing your text isn’t only a privacy choice. It changes the blast radius:
- Nothing to leak. Because the backend keeps no copy of what you rewrite, there is no archive of your drafts to breach, log, or subpoena. The text exists only for the moment it takes to rewrite.
- Not training fuel. Your drafts never become someone’s training data. What you write stays yours, whether it’s personal notes or work under an organization’s data-handling rules.
Who makes it
RefineIQ is built by oblivioX, a maker of privacy-first software. RefineIQ is free to install; rewrites run on a credit system tied to your account, so you pay only for the rewrites you use. There are no ads and no tracking. The privacy behavior described here is documented host-by-host in the privacy policy: your text is rewritten and dropped, never stored or trained on. You can follow oblivioX on X for release notes.
Learn more
- Examples: rough drafts rewritten side by side.
- How it works: the privacy posture, in detail.
- PromptPerfect alternative: migrate before the Sep 2026 shutdown.
- How to use RefineIQ: from install to your first clean rewrite in two minutes.
- Privacy: exactly what is (and isn’t) stored, host by host.
- Blog: notes on prompts and private AI.
- Contact: how to reach the project.