Draft at the speed of thought. Dictately turns your voice into clean, formatted prose in whatever app you write in.
Every writer knows the gap between how fast ideas arrive and how slowly they reach the page. Dictation closes it. Speak your first draft, capture an idea before it escapes, and let your hands rest — then edit at your leisure.
The keyboard tempts you to fix every sentence as you write it, which is the surest way to stall. Dictating a draft separates the two: get the words out by voice, messy and fast, then put your editor's hat on afterwards.
Because Dictately adds punctuation and tidies filler as you speak, what lands on the page already reads like prose, not a raw transcript — so there's less to clean up before the real editing begins.
There's no new editor to migrate to. Hold a key and dictate straight into Scrivener, Ulysses, Word, Google Docs, Notion, or wherever your manuscript lives — the text appears at your cursor.
Add character names, places and invented words to your personal dictionary so they're always spelled your way, and switch between languages automatically if your work crosses them.
Drafts are sensitive. On Apple Silicon, English dictation runs entirely on-device, so your manuscript never leaves your Mac. Other languages use the cloud, where audio is processed and discarded, never stored.
2,000 words a month, no card required. Hold a key, talk, and clean text appears in any Mac app.
Yes. Dictately works system-wide — it types into whatever app has your cursor, including Scrivener, Ulysses, Word, Google Docs and Notion. There's nothing to import or export.
Add them to your personal dictionary once and Dictately will spell them your way every time, which is ideal for invented names, places and terminology.
On Apple Silicon, English dictation runs fully on-device, so your audio never leaves your Mac. Other languages are processed in the cloud and discarded immediately, never stored.
It produces clean, punctuated prose well suited to drafting. Most writers dictate a fast first draft and then edit on the keyboard — the two together are quicker than typing alone.