Dictate
⌥leftGot time for a call this week?
Let's do tomorrow at 4:30
You said
Let's do tomorrow at 4:30
MessageLet's do tomorrow at 4:30
Filler dropped, correction applied, time written as digits. No period — it's a chat.
Animated demo. In a chat, replying to “Got time for a call this week?” by saying “um, let's do tomorrow at three, no wait, four thirty” types “Let's do tomorrow at 4:30”. In an email, selecting a sentence and saying “make it more polite” rewrites only that sentence.
Speak naturally. Send it as is.
Press a key, talk, and Dropline types clean, ready-to-send text in any app on your Mac — fillers gone, changes of mind applied, formatted for wherever you're typing.
01Demo
Edit
⌥left⇧leftTo: Sam LeeSubject: Deck for tomorrow
Hi Sam,
Could you send me the deck before tomorrow's meeting? I'd appreciate getting it as soon as possible. Thank you!
Best,
Alex
You saidmake it more polite
Select text, press the left ⌥ and ⇧ keys, and say what to change. Only the selection is rewritten.
02How it works
Two modes. One key.
Both start from the left Option key: tap or hold it to dictate, and add left Shift to edit.
Dictate
⌥Talk the way you talk. Dropline writes what you meant to type.
TapHands-free — tap again to finish
HoldPush to talk — let go to finish
EscCancel the recording
Edit
⌥ + ⇧Say what you want done to your text.
With text selected
- “Make it more formal”
- “Fix the typos”
- “Make it shorter”
With nothing selected
- “Write a quick thank-you to Tom for fixing the build”
You can change both shortcuts in Settings and add an alternate for each.
“Make it more formal”“Fix the typos”“Make it shorter”
“Write a quick thank-you to Tom for fixing the build”
Edit · ⌥ + ⇧With text selectedWith nothing selectedSay what to change
03Formats
Formatted for wherever you're typing.
Dropline sees which app you're in and lays out the same words to fit: relaxed in chat, punctuated in email, a numbered list in a doc.
You said
Three things before Friday: first ship the beta, second update the docs, and third tell the team
Formatted for wherever you're typing.
Dropline sees which app you're in and lays out the same words to fit: relaxed in chat, punctuated in email, a numbered list in a doc.
You said
Three things before Friday: first ship the beta, second update the docs, and third tell the team
- Terminal: always a single line — never a stray Return that runs a command.
- Code editors: only the fillers come out. Identifiers, paths and commands stay exactly as said.
01/03
To:Subject:
Chat
Three things before Friday: first ship the beta, second update the docs, and third tell the team
Email
Three things before Friday: first, ship the beta; second, update the docs; and third, tell the team.
Doc
Three things before Friday: 1. Ship the beta 2. Update the docs 3. Tell the team
04Features
Everything you'd fix by hand, already fixed.
Dropline makes the smallest edits that turn speech into writing. When it isn't sure, it leaves your words alone.
01
Fillers and stutters, gone
Um, uh, you know — and the words you said twice.
02
Changes of mind, applied
Say “no wait” or “I mean” and Dropline keeps only what you settled on.
03
Numbers that look like numbers
Times, prices, percentages and counts come out as digits.
04
Names spelled your way
Add names and jargon to your dictionary. While you dictate, Dropline also checks the names and terms on your screen.
05
Learns from your fixes
Fix a name or term right after dictating, and Dropline adds your spelling to your dictionary.
06
Any app, any input source
Works wherever there's a text field, whichever input source is selected.
05Privacy
Built to keep your words yours.
Dropline goes online only to process what you dictate or edit by voice, and to learn a word you fix right after.
01
Only when you speak
When you dictate or edit by voice, Dropline sends your recording, your dictionary, your name, and context from the app you're in: the text around your cursor, the window or page title, and words visible on screen. If you fix a word right after a dictation, that fix is sent too, so Dropline can learn it.
02
Password fields are off-limits
Dictation and context reading switch off in secure input fields.
03
Falls back to the transcript
If the cleanup fails, times out or comes back broken, Dropline types what it heard instead.
04
Your clipboard, put back
After pasting, Dropline puts back what you had copied, as long as macOS lets it read the clipboard. Passwords copied from a password manager are cleared instead.
06FAQ
Questions
macOS 15.4 or later, on a Mac with Apple silicon.
No. Dropline works with whatever input source is selected. It pastes the text in for you, then puts your clipboard back. Pasting needs the Accessibility permission.
English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish. English and Chinese can even be mixed in the same sentence. Dictate never translates: what you say in English stays in English.
Not in Dictate. Dropline only removes fillers, applies your corrections, fixes misheard words and punctuation, writes numbers as digits, and lays the text out for the app you're in. Rewording is what Edit is for.
Up to 3 minutes per recording.