Bilingual writing is not two separate jobs. You draft a greeting in Arabic, drop an English term of art, switch back. You quote a professor in English and answer in Arabic. The field is one box. The thought is one thread.
Most writing products still assume a monolingual document. Paste here to check English. Open another site to translate. A third window if the keyboard went wrong. By the time you return, the tone of the message has cooled.
The cost of leaving the page
Every extra surface is a chance to over-edit. You polish a paragraph in a grammar box until it sounds like a press release, then paste it into a WhatsApp chat where it does not belong. Or you translate a whole block when you only needed one clause.
Flowlary is built as a Chrome companion for the page you already use. Suggestions appear on the text you typed. Translation runs when you ask. Live translation stays off unless you turn it on. The field does not get replaced by a dashboard.
Mixed script is normal
A line can hold an Arabic verb and an English product name. Repair and review have to respect that mix. Blind “make this English” is the wrong default. So is stripping Latin letters from an Arabic message because a detector got nervous.
You remain the editor. Accept a suggestion, skip it, or close the card. The companion should not flatten your bilingual voice into one language because that is easier to score.
Where it actually runs
Flowlary works in most web text fields through the Chrome extension: Gmail, Google Docs, WhatsApp Web, LinkedIn, and many university portals. It does not run in the Chrome address bar, browser settings pages, or desktop apps outside the browser. That limit is real. We would rather say it than pretend we are a system-wide keyboard.
If you write in those web fields all day, staying there is the feature. The languages can share the box. The help should too.
One mind, one field
The writing life between Arabic and English is already enough work. The tool’s job is not to split it into products. It is to sit still while you switch scripts, then offer a repair or a suggestion you can still refuse.
When that holds, the field feels like yours again. Not a pipeline. A place to finish the sentence.
