For writers
Draft at the speed you think.
Voice typing for bloggers, copywriters, novelists, and journalists. Your manuscript stays on your machine.
No account needed. Works offline.
The blank page
The first draft is the hard one.
You know what you want to say. The sentence is half-formed in your head before your fingers catch up. By the time it is typed, the next thought has already moved on.
That is the gap voice closes. Speaking is faster than typing — about 220 words per minute against 45 on a keyboard. But more importantly, speaking matches the rhythm of thought.
You stop where you would pause. You restart sentences when they are going wrong. You get the messy-but-right first draft on the page in one pass. Edit later, by hand. That part doesn't change.
Your tool
Drafts in the tool you already use.
SnailText doesn't have a writing app. It doesn't have its own document editor. It pastes text into whatever you already write in.
Notes & long-form
Documents
Publishing & social
Your draft lives where it always has. SnailText is just the keyboard alternative.
Privacy
Your manuscript stays on your machine.
Cloud dictation tools send your audio to their servers to transcribe. That is the deal: speed for surveillance.
For a tweet, it doesn't matter. For a book chapter, an unannounced product launch, a sensitive interview transcript, a client's draft brief — it does. Your unfinished work shouldn't sit on a third party's logs.
SnailText runs Whisper locally. Audio is processed in RAM and discarded the moment we have your text. There's no upload, no recording history on a server, no AI-training corpus your draft might end up in.
You keep the words. We never see them.
Accuracy
Accuracy that scales with the model.
For short pieces — tweets, captions, comments — the compact models are plenty. They run on a regular CPU, transcribe in a few seconds, and handle punctuation reasonably well.
For long-form — chapters, longer essays, in-depth articles — the larger Pro models help. They tend to do better on rarer vocabulary, name-heavy passages, complex sentence structure, and non-English text.
The custom dictionary handles the names. Add the spelling you want for your characters, your sources, your colleagues — SnailText swaps them in on the way to the page.
Pricing
Free for short-form. Pro for long-form.
The compact models are plenty for tweets, blog comments, short emails, drafts under 500 words. Pro adds the larger models for chapter-length work, multilingual drafts, and name-heavy passages — three devices, no per-seat fees.
Free
$0 always
Compact local models. Unlimited dictation. No account.
Pro
$7.49 / month or $89/yr
Advanced local models. Up to 3 devices. 30-day refund.
FAQ
Common questions from writers.
Yes. Whisper handles commas, periods, question marks, paragraph breaks based on how you speak. You don't dictate punctuation. Long pauses become paragraph breaks; falling intonation becomes a period; rising becomes a question mark.
The custom dictionary handles them. Add the exact spelling you want and SnailText swaps it in on the way to the text field. Word-boundary aware, so common substrings don't trigger inside other words.
Yes. Whisper recognises 100+ spoken languages out of the box. Pro adds Parakeet TDT v3 — faster and very accurate on European languages. Set the language per mode so you can switch between English and Russian without changing settings.
No. What you said is what gets pasted. There's no AI cleanup layer between you and the page. If you want AI editing, do it in your usual tool — we don't impose ours.
Try it
Speak the first draft. Edit the second.
Free to start. About thirty seconds to install.
⌘ Shift Space — that's the only thing you need to remember.