dictate.

dictate. turns speech into formatted, ready-to-send text through an iPhone keyboard and a Mac dictation app, with punctuation cleanup, translation, a personal dictionary and shared history across one account.

dictate. is a speech-to-text tool built around a simple premise: talking is faster than typing, but raw transcripts are usually too messy to send. The app runs on iPhone as a system keyboard and on Mac as a dictation utility, so voice input lands directly in Messages, Mail, Notes, documents and the other apps already in daily use rather than in a separate transcription window that has to be copied and pasted from. The formatting layer is the differentiator. Instead of returning a literal word dump, dictate. adds punctuation, structure and layout to the result, which shortens the editing pass before text is ready to send. A personal dictionary holds custom terms so names, jargon and product words survive transcription intact, and a searchable history keeps past dictations available for reuse later. Multi-language support covers Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and others, with an option to speak in one language and have the final text rendered in another. One account links the iPhone and Mac versions, so Pro access, history and settings stay consistent across devices. Billing is split by platform: an App Store subscription on iPhone or Stripe on Mac, and the homepage states a single Pro subscription covers both. The free tier allows 70 transcriptions per week with the core transcription features, which suits occasional use and lets people test whether the formatting quality justifies paying. The obvious comparison is Apple's built-in dictation, which is free and system-level but offers no AI formatting, translation, tone adjustment or shared cross-device history. dictate. sits in the same habit as Apple Dictation but prices itself on the cleanup and the extras. It is aimed at people who write for a living or write a lot in a second language, not at users who dictate the occasional text message.