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Plume is a floating typing assistant for Windows, published by b7s and currently available at version 0.1.0, which is the only release listed to date. Designed to run as a transparent overlay positioned above the user's active window, Plume provides intelligent text assistance without interrupting the normal typing workflow. It relies on Windows UI Automation, specifically the UIAutomation TextPattern and ValuePattern interfaces, to monitor and interpret what is being typed in the focused text field of virtually any application. When the user pauses typing, Plume reads the last word entered in the active field and processes it through several assistive pipelines: it runs the word through Hunspell to generate spelling corrections, and it sends the surrounding textual context to the user's chosen large language model to produce AI-driven next-word predictions. In addition to spelling corrections and next-word suggestions, the software also offers translation capabilities and a set of text actions, making it useful for writers, multilingual users, and anyone seeking to reduce typing errors or accelerate text entry. The results are presented as selectable chips within the floating overlay, and clicking a chip allows the user to copy the suggestion or insert it directly into the document. Because it operates as an overlay rather than as an extension or plugin for a specific application, Plume fits into the category of system-wide productivity and accessibility utilities for the Windows desktop. Its use cases span general writing assistance, real-time spell checking in applications that lack it, predictive text input powered by external LLM services, and on-the-fly translation, all delivered through a lightweight, always-on-top interface that stays out of the way until suggestions become relevant. As an initial 0.1.0 release, Plume represents an early-stage tool in the typing assistance and text productivity category.
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