Mandatory Paywall - Incredible app but so expensive and limited
firstly, yeah, this app is amazing. best one ive used by a country mile. problem is you get x amount of usage (barely any, actually) and you are hit with a £49.99 per 6 months mandatory fee. As far as I can tell, none of the models work until you pay this, and I am not paying £100 a year for a bloody audio transcription app!!!!! modern apps are so upsetting :( just put ads in the thing!
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Great app
I use this app a lot. The most important thing for me is using local models for privacy reasons. This app lets me use Nvidia Parakeet and Apple Intelligence. Both transcribe the audio on the device, and nothing is sent to a third party.
Delightful Time Saver!
Once you get used to using it, Spokenly is a joy to use.
Dropped transcriptions, short trial period
The app repeatedly dropped 1-2 minute voice inputs, causing lost ideas and frustration. On the day I deleted the app, I tried to record a 1-minute voice input once, Spokenly lost it. I tried AGAIN, it lost it again, then took me to the ‘you are out of free use’ screen. So, goodbye.
Brilliant app held back by intrusive prompts
This app is fantastic, and being able to use your own API key is a massive plus. But despite using a third-party key, I am still forced to sit through irrelevant premium nag screens once or twice a day.
There is no reason to upgrade when using your own API, so these constant interruptions are just frustrating enough to make me consider deleting it.
I did email the developer suggesting a monthly option (say £3) to remove the pop-ups while keeping my own key - a win-win for their revenue and our user experience, but didn't hear back.
Currently, it's just too intrusive.
There is no reason to upgrade when using your own API, so these constant interruptions are just frustrating enough to make me consider deleting it.
I did email the developer suggesting a monthly option (say £3) to remove the pop-ups while keeping my own key - a win-win for their revenue and our user experience, but didn't hear back.
Currently, it's just too intrusive.
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Limited (not the song)
I’m using this to paste into an email. The speech to text is accurate and immediate.
Seems great!
I've been using Spokely for a way to write text that's alternative to typing. I find it more natural to simply speak and unfortunately the standard Mac dictation doesn’t really transcribe my voice well.
So Spokenly and some other apps have been a bit of a game changer. Spokenly has been working reliably and it's convenient. It offers multitude of models to choose from, and many of them were great. Therefore, I’m really happy about this app being accessible and allowing me to express myself through voice.
So Spokenly and some other apps have been a bit of a game changer. Spokenly has been working reliably and it's convenient. It offers multitude of models to choose from, and many of them were great. Therefore, I’m really happy about this app being accessible and allowing me to express myself through voice.
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Amazing Tool
One can really improve the productivity of working by using Spokenly, the amount of time it saves from typing to simple dictation is the killer, the accuracy is very good.
Perfekt für iPhone und MacBook
Ich benutze es auf meinem iPhone und MacBook und finde das Abo‑Paket fair, wenn ich die anderen Preise anschaue. Außerdem gilt das Abo für alle Geräte. Man zahlt 10 Euro im Monat für MacBook und iPhone, das finde ich extrem praktisch. Man wird nicht abgezockt. Bisher bin ich sehr zufrieden und gespannt, wie sich die App positiv entwickelt. Ich sehe viel Potenzial
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Awesome local Speech to Text app
I’m using it all the time with the combination of Nvidia Parakeet v3 and the results are awesome so far. Thank you for this great App! ❤️
A must-have for voice typing
Spokenly genuinely surprised me. It quickly became part of my daily workflow: I just speak naturally and get clean, well-formatted text back. The transcription is fast and accurate, punctuation works well, and local model support is a great plus for privacy. Perfect for notes, messages, emails, drafts, and capturing ideas on the go. The interface is polished, simple, and easy to use. You can tell a lot of care went into this app. Definitely 5 stars.
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Great
Really nice app, I like it because I can customize it to my needs/style, I hope there will be in the future a way to only pickup my voice and block out the background speech. Others also have the same issues which I guess is due to my hardware.
Great with some caveats
currently stress testing the app. love that it can work locally or online. i'm currently using a local parakeet model with an API to clean things up. however i'm running into some issues—the dictation itself is pretty good, especially with parakeet. but with the API i'm using, even with the AI prompt and system prompt, the model thinks i'm speaking directly to it.
so sometimes instead of transcribing what i'm dictating it gives me a response to what i've said, which is a little bit frustrating. i'm not sure if this is an issue with the spokenly app or with the API model i've chosen.
i'm currently using Anthropic's Haiku model.
so sometimes instead of transcribing what i'm dictating it gives me a response to what i've said, which is a little bit frustrating. i'm not sure if this is an issue with the spokenly app or with the API model i've chosen.
i'm currently using Anthropic's Haiku model.
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Missing language settings
No option to select language of the local voice models.
Extremely buggy
99% of the time when I try to activate it with a hotkey it doesn’t respond, so I have to reboot it and then it says the local model isn’t connected. Horrible software.
Keyboard dictation doesn't detect audio unless the app is open. And is considered the active app.
No speech detected.
Sehr tolle App macht genau was sie soll. Vielen Dank
Ich habe sehr lange gesucht, weil die meisten KI Tastaturen sich auf irgendwelche erweiterten LLM Features zentrieren, die ich nicht brauche. Ich brauche eine Tastatur, die meine Sprache zu Text umwandelt und diesen direkt im aktuellen Eingabefeld einfügt. Das macht die Tastatur sehr gut und sie funktioniert auch mit VoiceOver, vielen Dank weiter so
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Slow
Too slow and does not clean up grammar
Much better than Apple Voice Detection
I downloaded one of the Nvidia Parakeet local models and have this running in local mode and it works almost perfectly without needing a subscription plan. Although, some of the workflows like using prompts with the dictation, which is very useful, would need a subscription, and I may think about upgrading in the future for that use case.
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After trying multiple apps, this was the clear winner!
Spokenly was an easy choice for me. My bigger need was desktop dictation, and on my Mac, Spokenly was the clear winner. I love being able to choose different models and create custom prompts, which gives me much more control over the output.
What also sets Spokenly apart is that it’s more than just a keyboard. Some competing apps simply install a dictation keyboard, but Spokenly includes a full app with useful features that stand on their own, in addition to the keyboard. In short, it offers a lot more than many of its competitors, and I really like that.
It’s also priced extremely competitively — about a third less than many similar tools — and I personally like it better than the more expensive options. That made the decision simple.
Give Spokenly a shot!
What also sets Spokenly apart is that it’s more than just a keyboard. Some competing apps simply install a dictation keyboard, but Spokenly includes a full app with useful features that stand on their own, in addition to the keyboard. In short, it offers a lot more than many of its competitors, and I really like that.
It’s also priced extremely competitively — about a third less than many similar tools — and I personally like it better than the more expensive options. That made the decision simple.
Give Spokenly a shot!
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