# Dictation app for writers on Mac

Canonical page: https://flit.fyi/use-cases/writers

**Speak your draft. Get finished prose.** A first draft is a race between your thinking and your hands, and your hands lose. You speak at over 120 words a minute and compose at a keyboard at about 31. Flit closes that gap without handing you a transcript to clean up afterwards.

## What slows writers down

- The blank page wins because typing is slower than thinking.
- Dictation gives you an unpunctuated wall you have to rewrite.
- Cloud tools want a subscription and your manuscript.
- Reading back a wall of unpunctuated text kills the flow you had.

## What Flit does for writers

### Finished prose, not a transcript

Fillers and false starts removed, punctuation and capitalization fixed, numbers and dates written properly. Say “new paragraph” and you get one.

### Your names, spelled your way

Add characters, places, and invented words to your personal dictionary and they are spelled exactly right every time. Correct a word twice and Flit offers to remember it.

### Read it before it lands

Turn on review mode and the text parks in the HUD so you can edit or discard before a single word reaches your document.

### Your manuscript stays yours

No account, no telemetry, and no server ever sees your voice or your words. They never leave your Mac, and you can verify that with a network monitor.

## Finished text, not a transcript

Said: "um so the chapter opens with her uh leaving the house scratch that leaving the city"

Flit wrote, in Notes: The chapter opens with her leaving the city.

“Scratch that” cancels the statement before it. Only the correction survives.

## Why choose Flit over Wispr Flow

An unpublished draft is your work. Flit formats every sentence on your Mac, so a manuscript never passes through anyone else’s servers on its way to the page.

## Questions

**Can I dictate for an hour straight?**

Yes. Double-tap your activation key, or tap a custom shortcut once, to lock recording on and talk as long as you want. Press once more to finish. Flit transcribes while you speak, so there is no long wait at the end.

**Will it change my voice or style?**

It cleans up speech, it does not rewrite you. Fillers and repeats go, your words and phrasing stay. Tone controls let you set how formal the output reads.

**Does it work in Scrivener, Ulysses, or Word?**

Yes. Flit types wherever you can put a cursor, including the Electron and Chrome apps that most dictation tools struggle with.

Every persona: [who Flit is for](https://flit.fyi/use-cases). Flit: [flit.fyi](https://flit.fyi/).