Loqua
Loqua
Freemium
Loqua is a Mac and Windows app that types into the field you already have open. Hit one shortcut, speak in Slack, Mail, Notion, or a browser, and cleaned-up text lands at the cursor — filler gone, lists and headings inferred from how you talked. You stay in the document. It finishes the email or Slack reply where you already are, not a notes page you then copy back from. The same shortcut rewrites selected text by voice, translates while you speak into more than 100 languages, or lets you screenshot a chart or error and ask about it without leaving the window. Speech processing needs the internet; your history stays on the device. After a 14-day Pro trial, the free plan is 5,000 words and 10 screenshot questions a week. There is no offline mode and no phone app yet.
Freemium
Keywords
dictation, voice typing, speech to text, mac, windows, writing, voice
- Types into the current app: One global shortcut; cleaned text lands at the cursor in Slack, Mail, Notion, or a browser field.
- Cleanup and structure: Removes filler and abandoned phrases, then infers lists, headings, and hierarchy from how you spoke.
- Speak to edit: Highlight a draft and rewrite, rephrase, or change tone by voice.
- Capture to ask: Screenshot a chart, table, or error and ask about it without leaving the window. Free plan: 10 per week.
- Needs the internet: Speech processing is online. History stays on the device. Mac and Windows; mobile is not shipping yet.
TMRW VERDICT
Dictation that stays in the document
by TMRW Team·Sep 19, 2026
AudioPen — a different listing, already on this site — is a booth: you ramble, it hands you a draft in another tab. Loqua is the other job: finish the email, the Slack reply, the Notion doc without leaving it. The live demo on the site is the product: a ramble about a slipped landing page on the left, a speak box on the right, Ctrl to start. That is the test. If cleaned text lands where the cursor is, the tool earns a shortcut. If you still have to copy it back, it is just another notes app.
The extras are real and easy to oversell. Capture-to-ask is useful when a spreadsheet or an error is already on screen. Translation while speaking is useful if you draft in one language and send in another. Neither is why you install it. You install it because built-in dictation leaves the ums in and dumps a wall of text.
Best for people who already live in Mail, Slack, and Docs and hate typing. Skip it if AudioPen's capture-then-edit loop is the whole job, if you need the machine offline, or if you are waiting for iPhone. We opened the site and the live demo; we have not run it all day in a shared inbox. No stars until we have.