Quill
Speak, and get polished writing back.
Record or upload audio and Quill transcribes it, then rewrites it into any style — an email, clean notes, a post. Fast, private, on-device first.
Quill offers an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your App Store or Google Play account; it renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel anytime in your account settings. Terms and Privacy Policy.
Quill
productivity
Speak, and get polished writing back
Account
Not required
Analytics
Opt-in & anonymous
Your data
Stays on device
Ads & trackers
Zero
What you get
Built for exactly this — and nothing you don't need.
Fast transcription
record or upload, get an accurate transcript.
Style rewrites
turn a transcript into an email, summary, or post.
Private by default
your recordings stay yours.
Your library
every note and transcript, searchable.
A look inside
See it in your hands.
How it works
Up and running in under two minutes.
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Record
Hit the mic and talk, or upload an existing file.
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Pick a style
Email, notes, a tweet — Quill rewrites it instantly.
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Copy & send
Polished text, ready to paste anywhere.
A note from the studio
“Talking is faster than typing. Quill turns a two-minute ramble into something you'd actually send.”
Questions
The honest answers.
Is Quill private — does my voice get sent to the cloud?
No. Quill transcribes your speech on-device using WhisperKit, so your audio never leaves your phone or Mac. There's no account, no sign-up, and nothing is uploaded. Optional analytics and crash reporting are opt-in, off by default, and only ever record event names — never your recordings or transcripts.
Does Quill work offline?
Yes. Because dictation and formatting run entirely on your device, Quill works the same on a plane or with no signal as it does on Wi-Fi. The on-device model downloads once during setup, and after that you don't need a connection to dictate.
How is Quill different from Wispr Flow?
Wispr Flow is cloud-based and runs on a $8–15/month subscription. Quill does the same system-wide dictation on-device for privacy, and because there's no cloud cost behind it, it's a flat price instead of a recurring one. You also get one-tap AI rewrite to reshape any transcript into the tone you need.
Why use Quill instead of free Apple Dictation?
Apple Dictation just turns speech into raw text. Quill adds the polish — automatic punctuation and formatting, plus one-tap rewrite into styles like formal, concise, email, or Slack. It also learns custom styles from your own writing and handles voice commands and a personal dictionary for names and jargon.
Can I dictate into any app, on iPhone and Mac?
Yes. Quill ships a system keyboard so you can dictate straight into any app on iOS with instant insert — no copy-paste — and a floating fn-key bar that does the same anywhere on macOS. One purchase covers both your iPhone and your Mac.
How much does Quill cost?
Basic on-device dictation is free and unlimited, with no word caps. Pro unlocks AI rewrite, custom styles, voice commands, your personal dictionary, and the premium themes — it's $4.99/month, $29.99/year (7-day trial), or $49.99 once for lifetime. India pricing is ₹149/₹999/₹1,499.
Who is Quill for?
It's built for people who think faster than they type — founders, managers, sales, and consultants clearing an inbox and Slack backlog. It also fits developers writing commit messages and docs, and anyone who finds typing painful and wants voice as their main input.
Launching soon
Be first to know when Quill ships.
It'll launch at $29.99/yr. Free tier: unlimited on-device dictation with basic auto-punctuation and system-keyboard insert — no word cap, no account..
One email when it lands on the store. No drip sequence, no spam.
No spam. No tracking. Email only — unsubscribe with one click.
Your dictation happens on your device — speech is transcribed to text locally and nothing is uploaded. Your transcripts, notes, and library are stored on your device.
From the journal
Notes on the practice.
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What to Write in a Sympathy Card: Why You Freeze — and Why Imperfect Words Beat Silence
What to write in a sympathy card when every phrase feels wrong: the psychology of why you freeze, and why imperfect, warm words beat careful silence.
2026-07-12
7 min read
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How to Write a Speech That Sounds Natural: Draft It With Your Mouth, Not Your Keyboard
How to write a speech that sounds natural: why drafts written at a keyboard die out loud, and the speak-first method that keeps your toast sounding like you.
2026-07-12
6 min read
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How to Write a Self-Evaluation Without Cringing: Why Praising Yourself in Writing Is So Hard
Learn how to write a self evaluation without cringing — the real psychology behind self-promotion discomfort, and a spoken-first method that finds the words.
2026-07-12
7 min read
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How to Prepare for a Difficult Conversation: Rehearse Out Loud, Not in Your Head
How to prepare for a difficult conversation: why rehearsing it in your head backfires, and what saying the words out loud — alone — actually does to your brain.
2026-07-11
7 min read
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How to Do a Brain Dump That Actually Quiets Your Mind
Learn how to do a brain dump that actually works: the Zeigarnik effect, why vague lists fail, and the plan-making trick that quiets racing thoughts at night.
2026-07-11
6 min read
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How to Stop Over-Explaining in Emails: The Nod You Never Get Back
Learn how to stop over-explaining in emails and messages. The real cause isn't insecurity — it's the missing nod. Here's the psychology, and how to fix it today.
2026-07-10
7 min read
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How to Listen and Take Notes at the Same Time — Why You Can't, and What Works Instead
You can't listen and take notes at the same time: both run through one verbal channel. Here's the 90-second recall habit that captures more than any transcript.
2026-07-10
6 min read
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Why You Can't Reply to Texts and Emails From the People You Care About Most
Why can't I reply to texts and emails from people I love? The psychology of avoidance, reply debt, and the escalating standard — plus how to break the silence today.
2026-07-09
7 min read
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How to Stop Saying "Um": What Filler Words Are Actually Doing for You
Most advice on how to stop saying um treats it as a flaw. Research says it's a signal — and suppressing it costs you the very fluency you're chasing.
2026-07-09
7 min read
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How to Overcome Writing Anxiety: Why the Blank Document Makes Your Chest Tight
Writing anxiety isn't laziness or lack of ideas. Here's the research on why the blank page triggers dread, and how speaking your first draft disarms it.
2026-07-09
7 min read
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Why Your Thoughts Feel Tangled the Moment You Try to Write Them Down
Learn how to organize your thoughts into writing by understanding why thought is nonlinear and language isn't — and why speaking untangles the knot faster than a blinking cursor.
2026-07-08
6 min read
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Why You Talk With Your Hands — and Why Your Words Dry Up When You Can't
Why talking with your hands helps you think: the science of gesture and word-finding, and why typing traps the hands that help you speak. A quiet fix.
2026-07-08
6 min read
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Why Your Writing Sounds Flat — and the Sentence Rhythm You Lose When You Type
Wondering why your writing sounds flat? The problem is often rhythm, not word choice — and speaking your sentences aloud is how you get the music back.
2026-07-07
6 min read
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Why You Understand Something Until You Try to Explain It: The Illusion of Explanatory Depth
Why is it hard to explain something you know well? The illusion of explanatory depth means you understand less than you feel — and explaining it out loud is how you find the gaps.
2026-07-07
6 min read
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Why It's Easier to Write a Text Than an Essay: The Missing Reader Problem
Ever wonder why it's easier to write a text than an essay? The difference isn't discipline — it's the missing reader. Here's the psychology, and how to bring one back.
2026-07-06
6 min read
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Why Ideas Sound Better in Your Head Than on Paper — and How to Close the Gap
Why do ideas sound better in your head than on paper? Because your thoughts are far more compressed than you realize — and saying them out loud is what unpacks them.
2026-07-06
6 min read
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Why You Never Listen to Your Voice Memos — and How to Turn Them Into Text You'll Actually Use
Voice memos pile up unheard because audio resists review. Here's the psychology of the recording graveyard — and how to turn voice memos into text you'll actually use.
2026-07-04
6 min read
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Speech to Text for ADHD: Why You Can Say It but Can't Type It
Speech to text for ADHD works because it routes around task initiation and working memory — the real reasons writing stalls. Here's the science, and how to use it well.
2026-07-04
7 min read
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Speech to Text for Dyslexia: Writing With the Vocabulary You Actually Have
Speech to text for dyslexia does more than fix spelling — it removes the transcription bottleneck so your real vocabulary and ideas finally reach the page.
2026-07-03
7 min read
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How to Punctuate When Dictating: When to Say the Commas, and When to Let Them Find You
Learn how to punctuate when dictating — when to speak commands, when to trust auto-punctuation, and why punctuation began as marks for the human voice.
2026-07-03
6 min read
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Famous Authors Who Dictated Their Books: What Milton, Dostoevsky, and Henry James Knew About Writing by Voice
Famous authors who dictated their books — Milton, Dostoevsky, Henry James — treated speaking as serious composition. Here's what their habits teach anyone writing by voice.
2026-07-03
6 min read
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Why Does Saying Things Out Loud Help You Remember? The Production Effect, Explained
Why does saying things out loud help you remember? The production effect, explained — and how to use your voice to make names, ideas, and plans stick.
2026-07-02
6 min read
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Why Reading Your Writing Out Loud Catches Mistakes Your Eyes Miss
Reading your writing out loud catches the typos and clumsy sentences your eyes skim straight past. Here's why your ear turns out to be a sharper editor than your eyes.
2026-06-27
6 min read
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Why English Feels Easier to Speak Than to Write — and What Second-Language Learners Can Do About It
Writing in English as a second language feels harder than speaking it for real reasons. Here's the cognitive science behind the gap — and a gentler way to close it.
2026-06-27
7 min read
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Why Spelling Slows Down Your Writing — and How Dictation Removes the Hidden Tax
Why spelling slows down your writing: the transcription tax explained, plus how voice dictation frees the working memory you need to actually compose.
2026-06-26
7 min read
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How to Dictate in Public Without Feeling Self-Conscious
Wonder how to dictate in public without feeling awkward? The spotlight effect explains why talking to your phone feels exposing — and why almost no one's watching.
2026-06-26
6 min read
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How to Get the Tone Right in Writing — and Why Speaking Makes It Easier
Getting the tone right in writing is hard because your reader isn't in the room. Here's the psychology of the absent audience — and why saying it out loud fixes the tone.
2026-06-24
7 min read
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Why You Can't Find the Right Words When You Write — but They Come Easily When You Talk
Stuck searching for the right word while writing, then it surfaces the second you speak? Here's the word-retrieval science behind it — and how to write the way you talk.
2026-06-23
7 min read
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Why Writing Feels So Mentally Exhausting — and How Speaking Eases the Load
Why writing is mentally exhausting comes down to one thing: your brain runs two competing jobs at once. Here's the cognitive science, and a gentler way to draft.
2026-06-23
6 min read
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Why You Forget Your Best Ideas Before You Can Write Them Down
Wondering why you forget your ideas before writing them down? It isn't a memory flaw — it's working memory colliding with a slow keyboard. Here's the real fix.
2026-06-22
6 min read
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Why It's Easier to Talk Than to Write — and How to Borrow Speech's Fluency
Why is it easier to talk than write? The answer lives in how working memory handles speech versus text — and how to get clean drafts down without the strain.
2026-06-22
6 min read
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How Much Faster Is Talking Than Typing? The Real Speed Gap
Curious how much faster talking is than typing? Research puts speech near 150 words a minute against typing's 40 — here's why the gap is real and how to use it.
2026-06-22
7 min read
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How to Stop Editing While You Write: The Real Reason Your Drafts Stall
Learn how to stop editing while you write by separating drafting from revising. The cognitive science of why composing and editing at once stalls your work.
2026-06-21
6 min read
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Voice Journaling: Why Talking Through Your Day Beats Staring at a Blank Page
Voice journaling lowers the bar to reflection by letting you speak instead of write. Here's the psychology of affect labeling and expressive writing—and how to start.
2026-06-20
7 min read
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Voice Dictation When Typing Hurts: A Gentler Way to Get Words Down
If your hands ache by mid-afternoon, voice dictation when typing hurts can change the load instead of stopping work. Here's the science of strain, and a gentler way to write.
2026-06-17
7 min read
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Why Talking Through a Problem Out Loud Helps You Think Clearly
Talking through a problem out loud isn't a quirk — it's how the mind untangles itself. Here's the science of why saying a thing makes it clearer, and how to keep the insight.
2026-06-16
6 min read
- 37
Building a Voice Capture Habit That Lasts
Trying dictation once is easy; building a voice capture habit is the hard part. Here's how to tune the tool and the routine so it actually sticks.
2026-06-11
7 min read
- 38
On-Device vs Cloud Dictation: What the Difference Actually Means
On-device vs cloud dictation isn't just a privacy slogan. It changes what happens to your voice, whether it works offline, and how fast text comes back.
2026-06-08
7 min read
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Capturing Ideas While You Walk, So They Don't Get Lost
The best thoughts arrive when your hands are busy. Capturing ideas while walking by voice turns a vanished thought into a note you'll actually have later.
2026-06-04
6 min read
- 40
A Beginner's Guide to Voice Dictation, Starting From Zero
A plain beginner's guide to voice dictation: what it actually is, what to expect on your first try, and how to get usable text out of your own voice.
2026-06-01
6 min read
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Why People Quit Dictation in the First Week
Most people who abandon dictation do it within days, and almost always for the same few reasons. Here's why people quit dictation — and how to get past it.
2026-05-27
7 min read
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Why Speaking Lowers the Friction to Write
Voice dictation isn't faster only because your mouth moves quicker than your fingers. It works because speaking lowers the cognitive friction to write at the source.
2026-05-20
7 min read
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The Myths That Keep You From Talking to Your Computer
Most objections to voice dictation are based on tools from a decade ago. Here are the common myths about voice dictation, and what's actually true now.
2026-05-13
7 min read
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How to Write With Your Voice Without It Sounding Like You Talked
Learning how to write with your voice is a skill, not a switch. Here's the method for composing by speech so the result reads like writing, not a transcript.
2026-05-07
7 min read