Dictation for the Mac

Say it.
Roar types it.

Hold a key in any Mac app. Talk. A moment later it's typed where your cursor is, punctuated and spelled right. Three times faster than your hands.

  1. Hold a key
  2. Talk
  3. Let go. It’s typed.

Demonstration: a floating panel shows Roar listening while a waveform runs along the window, then a two-sentence reply is typed into an email compose window at about 150 words a minute while a counter shows the rate.

In the app you’re in

150wpm
New Message

Tomara@northwind.com

SubjectRe: the draft

Thanks for the notes on the draft. The fee section is back to this year's numbers, and the redraft is with you by Thursday.

24 words in 9 seconds. Typed, the same words take about 29.

Write at the speed you talk

Downloads Roar for Mac. macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon (M1 and newer). Five dictations to try, no card.

See how fast that is ↓

Talk against type

You talk three times faster than you type.

About 150 words a minute against about 50. Watch the same fifty words land both ways, on one stopwatch.

Demonstration: the same fifty-word paragraph is revealed twice, at about 50 words a minute as typing and about 150 words a minute as talking. Talking finishes at twenty seconds, typing at one minute.

Same paragraph, both ways

1:00.0

Typing

Done at 1:00

Thanks for the notes on the draft. I have taken the fee section back to this year's numbers and added the signature block for the Toronto entity. Two questions remain on the indemnity language and I would rather settle them on a call than in another round of tracked changes.

Talking

Done at 0:20

Thanks for the notes on the draft. I have taken the fee section back to this year's numbers and added the signature block for the Toronto entity. Two questions remain on the indemnity language and I would rather settle them on a call than in another round of tracked changes.

Same paragraph. A third of the time.

Every email, note and reply you write this afternoon, in a third of the minutes.

Write at the speed you talk

Mac, Apple silicon. Five dictations to try, no card.

Roar for you

Built for people whose working day is made of writing into boxes.

Three kinds of day. Pick yours and see exactly how Roar works for it.

Roar for Lawyers

Bill the 0.1 you used to forget.

Time entries, client email, notes to file, said into Outlook, Word, Gmail and Clio. Voir dire spelled voir dire.

Roar for Journalists

File from wherever you are standing.

The graf lands in the doc while the presser is still going. Names spelled right. Your sources' audio never touches it.

Roar for Everyone who types

Slack, email, docs, prompts. Said, not typed.

Seven places you type every day, each one shown landing. Forty messages before lunch, at a third of the time.

Context-based formatting

Say it once. Get an email, a post, or a prompt.

Roar knows which window you're in and shapes what you said to fit it. Watch the raw words land first, then take the shape of each tool, one at a time.

Demonstration: a sentence is transcribed as it was said, then the same words are shown shaped for an email, a post and a prompt, one window at a time.

Roar heardWhat you said

ok so the new pricing goes live monday annual plans keep the old rate until renewal and support already has the answers written up so send people there first

New Message

Toeveryone@northwind.com

SubjectRe: the draft

An email gets a greeting, one sentence a line, a sign-off

Hi all,

The new pricing goes live on Monday.

Annual plans keep the old rate until renewal.

Support already has the answers written up, so send people there first.

Thanks,

Mara

Create a post
Mara OkaforPost to Anyone ▾

A post gets a hook, short paragraphs, a closing question

Our new pricing goes live Monday.

On an annual plan? Nothing changes until renewal. You keep the old rate.

Questions? Support has the answers written up already. Start there.

What would you want to know first?

ChatGPTNew chat

A prompt gets the task, the facts as a list, the constraints

Draft a short announcement to customers about a pricing change.

• The new pricing goes live Monday

• Annual plans keep the old rate until renewal

• Support already has the answers written up, so point people there

Plain tone, no hype, under 80 words.

Message ChatGPT

Roar reads the name of the window. Never what’s on it.

Two modes. Clean transcription types exactly what you said. Smart formatting shapes it for where it's going.

Custom vocabulary

Your words, spelled the way you spell them.

Party names. Drug names. Framework names. The client you've spelled out loud four times today. Add a word once and Roar has it from then on.

  • war diaryvoir dire
  • rest Judi katares judicata
  • a firm of defenseaffirmative defense
  • Canberra explosionCambrian explosion
  • a tor vast at inatorvastatin
  • cooper nettiesKubernetes
  • Ober gefellObergefell
  • Ty shi keddyTshisekedi
  • Post grassPostgres
  • Sarah bainsSarbanes

Languages

Switches languages mid-sentence. No setting to change.

Switches languages mid-sentence, in any of 20+ languages.

  • English
  • Spanish
  • Chinese
  • French
  • German
  • Portuguese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Italian
  • Russian
  • and 10+ more

Where your words go

Your notes never leave your Mac.

Roar has a notepad for when you're not in another app. It stores to a database on your machine. There is nowhere on our server for a note to go.

Fact one

Your notes never leave your Mac. Not to our server, not to anyone. They live in a local database on your machine and nowhere else.

Fact two

Your voice, only while you hold the key, goes to Roar's server, is transcribed, and is deleted. It's never stored.

Never your keystrokes. Never your screen. Never your notes.

What each permission is forHow your data moves, hop by hop

Pricing

Download Roar. Your first five dictations are on us.

No card. No timer. Talk, watch it land, and decide with the evidence in front of you.

Write at the speed you talk

Mac, Apple silicon. Five dictations to try, no card.

Your first 5 dictations are free. No card.

A dictation is one press and release of the key, up to ten minutes. Five of them is an afternoon of email.

Monthly

$12a month

$12 billed monthly. $144 a year.

Cancel any time from inside the app.

Quarterly

$10a month

$30 billed every three months. $120 a year.

$144You save $24 a year

Best value, 33% off

Annual

$8a month

$96 billed once a year.

$144You save $48 a year

Every term includes the same 1,200 minutes a month. The longer terms are a discount, not a bigger bucket.

Everything the plan includes

A note from the person who built it

If it isn't faster than your hands, tell me why.

One more time

Your next email,
said not typed.

Hold the key. Say it. Let go. A moment later it's where your cursor was, punctuated and spelled right. Five dictations to see for yourself, no card.

Demonstration: a floating panel shows Roar listening, then a message is typed into a chat channel at about 150 words a minute.

Your next sentence

150wpm
product-launch

Mara Okafor10:42 AM

Pricing change ships Monday. Support has the answers written up, so send questions there first.

Message #product-launch

  • 3x

    Talking is three times faster than typing.

  • 5

    Your first 5 dictations are free. No card.

  • 0

    Notes that leave your Mac. None, ever.

Write at the speed you talk

Mac, Apple silicon. Five dictations to try, no card.