Select the draft, right-click, choose Fix my text. Prose polishes or rewrites the email right where you typed it: no new tab, no prompt, no account. Free in Chrome.
That is the whole workflow. No copying the draft into another tab, no writing a prompt, no pasting the answer back and fixing the formatting.
Polishing an email means fixing the grammar, spelling, and awkward phrasing of a draft while keeping the writer's words, structure, and intent. A polished email says exactly what the original said, without the mistakes. It is different from rewriting, which produces a new message, and from generating, which produces someone else's message.
Sometimes a polish is not enough: the draft is blunt where it should be careful, or tangled where it should be simple. That is a rewrite job, and it is where most email rewriters overshoot. They hand back a message that is longer, stiffer, and unmistakably not yours.
A good email rewriter changes only what stops the message from working:
| Your draft | hey, the invoice from march is still unpaid, can you check whats going on, we need this sorted |
|---|---|
| Rewritten, voice kept | Hey, the invoice from March is still unpaid. Could you check what's going on? We need this sorted this week. |
| Rewritten by an overeager tool | I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to follow up regarding the outstanding invoice from March and would appreciate your assistance in resolving this matter at your earliest convenience. |
The middle version is what Prose aims for: the fix is real, the ask is intact, and the sender is still recognizably you. If you want the theory behind that choice, read fix, don't rewrite.
Gmail has a Polish shortcut powered by Gemini. When it works, it is genuinely useful. It also has three limits. It only exists inside Gmail. It appears only on drafts of 12 words or more, as Google's own announcement explains. And its availability varies by account, which is why "polish feature not showing" threads keep appearing on Google's support forums.
Prose does the same one-click polish on any selected text, in Gmail and everywhere else you write in Chrome: Slack, LinkedIn, Notion, support consoles, web forms. If the button is not there, or you are not in Gmail at all, the right-click still is. And if you want to get, use, or disable the native feature itself, here is the complete Gmail Polish guide.
ChatGPT polishes email drafts well. The problem is everything around the polish: switch tab, paste the draft, explain what you want, wait, copy the answer, switch back, paste, fix the formatting. For a three-line email, the detour costs more than the fix.
There is also a quieter cost: a chat assistant defaults to rewriting. Unless you constrain it carefully, you get a new email instead of your email, corrected. Prose is constrained by design: it fixes the text you selected and stops there.
| Prose | Gmail Polish | ChatGPT | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where it works | Any text field in Chrome | Gmail only | Its own tab or app |
| How you trigger it | Select text, right-click | Shortcut on drafts of 12+ words (Google, Oct 2024) | Paste the draft, write a prompt |
| Availability | Free, no account required | Varies by account; "not showing" threads on Google's own forums | Free tier with usage limits |
| What you get back | Your text, corrected: one paste to apply | A polished draft inside Gmail | A new version to copy and paste back |
| Steps for one sentence | 3 (select, click, paste) | 2, when the shortcut appears | 6+ (switch, paste, prompt, wait, copy, paste back) |
Table checked: August 17, 2026. If any cell is no longer accurate, tell us and we will fix it.
| Situation | Before | After Prose |
|---|---|---|
| Client follow-up | just checking if you had time to look the proposal | Just checking if you had time to look at the proposal. |
| Payment reminder | the payement for invoice 204 didnt arrive yet | The payment for invoice 204 hasn't arrived yet. |
| Apology for a delay | sorry for late answer, i was out of office monday | Sorry for the late answer, I was out of the office on Monday. |
| Asking for time off | would it be posible to take friday of next week | Would it be possible to take Friday off next week? |
| LinkedIn message | thanks for connecting, i seen your talk about onboarding | Thanks for connecting. I saw your talk about onboarding. |
| Support reply | we have fix the issue, can you confirm its work on you're side | We have fixed the issue. Can you confirm it works on your side? |
| Declining politely | thanks but we wont go forward with the offer at this moment | Thanks, but we won't go forward with the offer at this moment. |
| Asking for an extension | we need few more days for the delivery, is thursday ok for you | We need a few more days for the delivery. Is Thursday OK for you? |
| Negotiating a quote | the price is more high than we expect, can you do something on it | The price is higher than we expected. Can you do something about it? |
| Cold first contact | i am writing you because i think our tool can be interesting for you're team | I'm writing because I think our tool could be interesting for your team. |
| Escalating an issue | this is the third time we report this bug, we realy need a solution now | This is the third time we've reported this bug. We really need a solution now. |
| Correcting yourself | small mistake in my last mail, the meeting is at 3pm not 2pm, sorry for confusion | Small mistake in my last email: the meeting is at 3 p.m., not 2 p.m. Sorry for the confusion. |
None of these needed a new email. They needed the same email, made safe to send.
Prose only ever works on the text you select, and only when you ask. The corrected text is placed on your clipboard, replacing whatever was there, and one paste puts it over your draft. With your own API key, the selected text goes straight from your browser to the AI provider you chose: it never touches Prose servers, and anyone can verify that in the extension's published code. With Prose credits, it passes through the Prose server, which forwards it to the model and returns your fix. The extension has no background access to your pages and contains no telemetry.
Polishing fixes grammar, spelling, and awkward phrasing while keeping your words and structure. Rewriting produces a new version of the message, which can change tone and length. Prose does the first by default: it corrects the text you selected and leaves the rest of your voice alone. More on that distinction here.
Yes. Select the draft, right-click, choose Fix my text, and the corrected version reads clean and professional while keeping your original ask and tone. It works in Gmail, Slack, LinkedIn, and any text field in Chrome. See the workflow in action.
Yes. Prose is a free Chrome extension with no account required. Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google API key, so your text goes straight from your browser to your provider, or buy one-time credits. There is no subscription either way. Both options are detailed here.
Gmail has a built-in Polish shortcut powered by Gemini, but it only appears on some accounts and only inside Gmail. With Prose, you select the draft, right-click, and choose Fix my text: the same one-click polish, in Gmail and everywhere else you write in Chrome.
It should not. A polish keeps your meaning, your names and numbers, and your level of formality, and only repairs errors and awkward phrasing. If a result reads like a different person wrote it, the tool rewrote instead of polishing. Here is what happens to your text along the way.
Last updated: August 17, 2026
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