AudioPen for writers
Write your first draft by talking.
Your best lines rarely show up at the keyboard. They show up on a walk, in the shower, halfway through a sentence you said out loud. AudioPen catches them and turns them into a draft you can actually edit.
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The slow part
The blank page was never the problem.
You usually know what you want to say. Getting it down is the slow part. Typing makes you edit before the thought is finished. The draft dies before it starts.
Talk instead. Ramble, circle back, follow the tangent. AudioPen transcribes everything, then reshapes it into a clean draft with your points in order. From a head full of ideas to a page of text in the time it takes to walk around the block.
How writers use it
Get the words out of your head.
Draft on the move
Dictate the rough version of an article or a chapter while you walk. The structured draft is waiting when you sit down.
Beat the blank page
Talk through what you want to say first. Editing a real draft is far easier than starting from nothing.
Catch the idea before it goes
The line that arrives mid sentence rarely survives until you find a keyboard. Speak it into AudioPen and keep it.
It still sounds like you
Your voice, not a robot.
Upload a sample of your own writing and AudioPen learns how you put words together. Your phrasing, your rhythm, your habits. The draft comes back sounding like you wrote it on a good day.
You decide how far it goes. Ask it to fix the grammar and leave your prose alone. Ask it to restructure a messy note so it flows. Your words, just organized.
One recording
Turn a voice note into anything.
Take the same recording and shape it into an article, a newsletter, a chapter draft, or a set of posts for LinkedIn or X. Restyle a note you saved last month into something new.
Speak in one language and write in another, with 58 languages in and more than 100 out. It lives where you write: on the web, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android, with a Chrome extension.
FAQ
Common questions
- Can AudioPen write in my style?
- Yes. Upload a sample of your own writing and it learns your phrasing and rhythm, then drafts in your voice. You also set how heavy the edit is, from a light grammar fix to a full restructure.
- Can I dictate a long article or a book?
- Yes. Record in chunks, pause to think, and keep going. AudioPen stitches the segments together. On Prime each recording runs up to 15 minutes, and you can combine saved notes into one summary.
- Will it sound like AI wrote it?
- Only if you let it. Keep the intensity low and it fixes the mess while leaving your words and tone intact, so the draft still reads like you.
- What formats can I get from one recording?
- You can shape a single recording into a blog post, a newsletter, an email draft, a Twitter thread, a LinkedIn post, a chapter outline, or a plain summary. Pick a style before or after you record, and restyle the same note as many times as you want.
- Can I upload a recording I already have?
- Yes. Upload any audio file and AudioPen transcribes it and optionally rewrites it in your chosen style. Useful for processing old voice memos or audio you captured elsewhere. This is a Prime feature.
- Can I combine multiple recordings into one piece?
- Yes. Record across several sessions, then use SuperSummaries to merge them into one document. Useful for long-form work you build across days. Prime only.
- Can I dictate in one language and write in another?
- Yes. AudioPen understands 58 spoken languages and writes in more than 100. Speak your draft in French, get the article back in English. Useful for multilingual writers or anyone who thinks more naturally in one language but publishes in another.
- Does it just transcribe, or edit too?
- Both, and you choose. Keep the plain transcript, or have AudioPen reshape it into a clean draft.
- Is my writing private?
- Yes. Your notes are encrypted and never shared. AudioPen never uses your writing to train AI models. On Mac and iPhone, transcription can run fully on-device when you enable offline mode, so audio is processed locally.
- What does it cost?
- There is a free tier. Prime is a one time payment from $99 a year, with no subscription and no auto renewal.