You write more prose than you think — commits, PRs, docs, tickets, Slack, AI prompts. Dictate all of it, in any app.
Writing code is the fun part. The slow part is everything around it: commit messages, pull-request descriptions, documentation, tickets, Slack threads, and increasingly the long prompts you feed an AI assistant. Dictately lets you say those instead of typing them.
Let's be honest about what this is: Dictately dictates natural language, not syntax. It won't type your brackets and semicolons for you. What it does is demolish the prose half of your day — the part that's slowest on a keyboard and easiest by voice.
That turns a two-paragraph PR description into ten seconds of talking, and a thoughtful AI prompt into something you actually bother to write in full.
Library names, frameworks, your service names and acronyms usually get mangled by generic dictation. Add them to your personal dictionary and Dictately gets them right — Kubernetes, Postgres, your internal tool names, all of it.
It works wherever you already are: VS Code, the terminal, GitHub, Linear, Slack, ChatGPT, Claude. Hold a key and the text lands at your cursor.
Plenty of new developer tools are Apple-Silicon-only. Dictately runs on both. On Apple Silicon, English dictation is on-device, so discussions about proprietary code never leave your machine; other languages use the cloud and are discarded, never stored.
2,000 words a month, no card required. Hold a key, talk, and clean text appears in any Mac app.
Not literally — Dictately dictates prose, not syntax, so it won't type your brackets and operators. It's built for the large amount of English developers write: commit messages, PR descriptions, docs, tickets, Slack and AI prompts.
Add your stack to the personal dictionary — library names, frameworks, internal tools, acronyms — and Dictately spells them correctly every time.
Yes. It types into any app at your cursor, including VS Code, the terminal, browsers, Linear and GitHub.
On Apple Silicon, English runs on-device so your audio never leaves your Mac. Other languages use the cloud and are discarded after transcription, never stored.