Dictate
MaciPhone
Hold a hotkey or hit record. Speak. Get clean, formatted text — anywhere. Optional Claude or ChatGPT polish.
Quill for Mac & iPhone
Dictate. Edit. Act.
Voice-first AI for your Mac and iPhone. Speak to write. Highlight to transform. Talk to act.
The loop
One voice. Three superpowers.
Quill turns the way you already talk into the way you work — capture, transform, and route, without leaving the app you're in.
Edit
Mac
Highlight any text in any app. Translate, shorten, expand, reformat — Quill rewrites it in place.
Act
MaciPhone
Speak naturally. Quill detects your intent and routes it — Reminders, Calendar, Mail, Todoist. You confirm before anything fires.
Things you can say to Quill
Try a prompt.
Quill
Apple Reminders
Call Mom · Friday at 3:00 PM
See it in motion
Twenty-one seconds, end to end.
heyquill.ai
Live capture — Quill on macOS, recorded April 2026.
How Quill compares
Voice tools, end to end.
Most tools stop at transcription. Quill keeps going — into edits, into actions, into your other apps.
| Feature | Quill | Apple Dictation |
Wispr Flow |
Super Whisper |
ChatGPT Voice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-device transcription | ✓ | ✓ | ● | ✓ | – |
| AI cleanup & rewriting | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit any selected text, in any app | ✓ | – | – | – | – |
| Auto-route to Reminders, Calendar, Mail, Todoist | ✓ | – | – | – | – |
| Mac & iPhone | ✓ | ✓ | ● | ● | ✓ |
| Free | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ● |
✓ Yes ● Partial – No
Capabilities
What Quill actually does.
Dictate
MaciPhone- On-device transcription via Parakeet (Mac) or Whisper (Mac + iPhone), Core ML accelerated.
- Hold a hotkey on Mac, hit record on iPhone — text pastes into whatever app you're in.
- Optional Claude or ChatGPT polish: clean prose, email tone, structured notes, code comments.
- Inline voice commands ("new paragraph", "period", "question mark").
Edit
Mac- Highlight any text in any app, trigger Quill, transform it in place.
- Translate, shorten, expand, reformat as bullets, switch tone, fix grammar.
- Use a preset or speak your own instruction.
- Works in Messages, Mail, code editors, browsers, anywhere selectable text lives.
Act
MaciPhone- Quill detects your intent and proposes an action across your apps.
- "Remind me to…" → Apple Reminders. "Add to my calendar…" → Calendar.
- "Email…" → drafted in Mail. Action items → Todoist.
- Always confirm before anything fires. No silent sends.
Privacy
Your audio never leaves your device.
Transcription runs locally on Mac and iPhone via Core ML. Edit and Action use your own Anthropic or OpenAI key — stored in Keychain — and only fire after you confirm. No telemetry, no analytics, no audio in the cloud.
Download
Pick your platform.
Both are free. Mac is generally available, iPhone is in public TestFlight beta.
macOS
Quill for Mac
Menu bar app. Hold a hotkey, speak — text pastes into the app you're already using. Edit and Act ship with the Mac build.
iOS · TestFlight beta
Quill for iPhone
Voice notes plus Action — capture and route in one motion. On-device Whisper, optional AI cleanup.