
Loqua is a Mac and Windows app that types what you say into whatever field you have open. Press one shortcut and talk in Slack, Mail, Notion or your browser. Clean text appears at the cursor with the filler removed, and it adds lists and headings based on how you spoke. You finish the email or Slack reply right where you are, with nothing to copy over from a notes app. The same shortcut can rewrite selected text by voice, translate into more than 100 languages as you speak, or take a screenshot of a chart or error and answer questions about it. It needs the internet to process speech, but your history stays on your device. After a 14-day Pro trial, the free plan gives you 5,000 words and 10 screenshot questions a week. It doesn't work offline and there's no phone app yet.
AudioPen works like a recording booth. You ramble and it gives you a draft in another tab. Loqua does a different job. It lets you finish the email, the Slack reply or the Notion doc without leaving it. The test is simple. If clean text lands where your cursor is, the tool earns a keyboard shortcut. If you still have to copy it back, it's just another notes app.
The extras are useful but easy to oversell. Asking about a screenshot helps when a spreadsheet or an error is already on screen. Translating as you speak helps if you draft in one language and send in another. Neither is why you'd install it. You install it because the dictation built into your computer leaves the ums in and gives you one long wall of text.
Best for people who spend their day in Mail, Slack and Docs and hate typing. If AudioPen's record-then-edit approach is all you need, if you need it to work offline, or if you're waiting for an iPhone app, skip it. The 14-day Pro trial answers the only question that matters: after a week, are you still reaching for the shortcut, or are you back to typing?