Every feature,
top to bottom.
Eight categories. Thirty-two capabilities. Free comes loaded; Pro unlocks BYOK and on-device. Here's the whole map.
Voice in
From sound to text, end-to-end under a second.
Whisper-grade transcription
Punctuation, casing, and capitalisation handled out of the box. Streaming partial results show up as you talk.
99+ languages, mixed-language utterances
Code-switch mid-sentence. Set a preferred language list and InkSpoke picks the closest match for each segment.
Smart silence detection
Built-in VAD with calibrated gain. Auto-trims dead air, pauses, and reverb so transcripts stay clean.
Streaming partial results
See your sentence appear word-by-word as you speak. Useful for long-form dictation when you want to catch yourself mid-thought.
Refinement
From transcript to a sentence you'd actually send.
Tone presets + custom prompts
Professional · Casual · Technical · Creative — or write your own refinement instructions per workspace.
Live streaming refinement
Refined tokens appear in the overlay as they're generated. See the polished version build itself in real time.
Show-the-diff preview
Optional overlay shows raw transcript vs. refined output side-by-side before injection.
Per-workspace vocabulary
Teach internal product names, acronyms, codenames, people. Applied at both transcription and refinement passes.
Workspaces
The same words mean different things in different apps.
Auto-detect by active app
Watches the foreground window. Switches workspace automatically — fuzzy-matched against app name and window title.
Compose your own
Domain context, output style, tone, and free-form custom instructions. Stack global vocab on top of per-workspace overrides.
Workspace library
Curated starter templates: Slack, Gmail, Cursor, Notion, Linear, Figma comments, and more.
Unlimited workspaces
Free includes 5. Pro is unlimited. Sync across devices, with optional end-to-end encryption for entry content.
Voice commands
Don't just dictate — operate.
Hands-free wake-word
Pick from ten wake names, with an optional "hey" prefix. Detection runs on a local model — audio never leaves the device for wake-word detection.
Commands with parameters
Write one command that takes a slot: "open {app}", "type {text}". InkSpoke fills it from your speech and matches {app} against your favourites.
Ten command actions
Type a snippet · press a shortcut · open an app, a URL or a file · focus, hide or quit a window. Insert your last dictation with {last}.
Configurable hotkey
Press ⌥+Space, or rebind any of six actions to your own combination. Press to start, press again to finish.
Models & providers
Use ours, use yours, run on-device.
Platform-hosted models
Free and Pro come with curated voice + text models hosted on the InkSpoke platform. No setup required.
BYOK voice
Point transcription at OpenAI, Groq, Azure OpenAI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint using your own key.
BYOK text
OpenAI, Groq, Azure OpenAI, or a self-hosted server — anything speaking the OpenAI chat format. Zero markup on usage.
On-device models
Whisper Small runs on your machine free forever. Pro unlocks the larger speech models and on-device refinement. Metal on Apple Silicon, CUDA on Windows; Linux is CPU-only.
Privacy & control
You decide what leaves the machine.
A pipeline that can stay local
Choose on-device models and your audio and text never leave the machine — dictation keeps working with the network unplugged. Device registration and update checks still reach us; block them at the firewall if you need silence on the wire.
API keys kept out of config
Provider keys are encrypted and held by the OS — Keychain on macOS, the data-protection API on Windows, Secret Service on Linux. Never in plaintext config files.
Optional end-to-end encryption
Standard sync stores entry content on our servers, where we can read it. Turn on Private sync and entry content plus dictionary terms are encrypted on your device with a recovery key only you hold. Workspace names, tags, and titles stay readable plain metadata in both modes.
Configurable history retention
Keep a searchable log for a day, a week, a month, or up to a year, then let it prune itself. SQLite, local-only, never synced — and a one-click wipe whenever you want.
Text injection
Refined text lands where the cursor is.
Works in any text field
Native apps, web text inputs, Electron, remote desktops, terminals. Auto-picks the right injection strategy.
Clipboard-safe
Backs up and restores your clipboard around each injection — never clobbers what you'd copied before.
IDE & terminal awareness
Knows when you're in VS Code, Cursor, iTerm, or a remote shell — uses SendKeys to avoid breaking selections.
Remote desktop bridging
Detects RDP/Citrix windows and forwards via Ctrl+V into the remote session.
Team & cross-device
One InkSpoke across every machine you sit at.
Cross-device sync
Workspaces, vocabulary, commands, history — synced across all your installs. macOS + Windows + Linux.
LAN-only device sync
A local server on your desktop, discovered over your own network and paired with an encrypted QR handshake. No cloud roundtrip. The mobile client that pairs with it is still to come.
Usage statistics
Words dictated, time saved, top apps, daily streak. SQLite-backed, local-only, exportable.
Searchable history
Every dictation, indexed and re-injectable. Filter by app, language, or workspace. Disable retention any time.
What's free, what's Pro.
You spoke. Now ink it.
Free with platform-hosted voice + text models. Pro unlocks BYOK, on-device models, and unlimited workspaces.