Rewrite, dictate, and keep moving
Rewrite what you just wrote. Or just talk and watch it turn to text. History you can search. Tone you can tune. Echo Flow AI lives on your Mac after one quick setup. Nothing leaves.
“I kept hitting ⌥-Space just to fix old Slack drafts, like... I don’t even dictate that much? But the rewrite thing, I use it maybe 20 times a day now,” says Priya, who runs ops for a small studio in bristol. She was sure she’d only use dictation.
She still types most of her work. Says that’s fine.
Feature overview
Core capabilities, built to work together.
Smart Context
Say it once, in the tone each app expects. Mail reads professional, Slack reads casual, code stays exact, and your per-app overrides stick.
Rewrite Palette
Clean up something you already wrote, without leaving the window it's in. 9 actions on any selected text: Fix Writing, Make It Shorter, Smooth Out, Sound Pro, Sound Friendly, Sound Confident, Bullet Points, Key Takeaways, Keep Original.
Preview Before Paste
Nothing lands until you say so. Read the polished text in a frosted-glass popup, then Paste, Edit, or Discard. No auto-paste timer.
Searchable History
Find what you said last month. Every transcription is saved with word counts, timestamps, and polish status. Search it, copy from it, refine it, or add a term to your dictionary.
Personal Dictionary
Your names, acronyms, and product terms come through every polish pass exactly as you wrote them. Protect words from alteration, or build a custom vocabulary.
Audio Feedback
Know it heard you without looking up. Subtle start and stop chimes, 5 selectable sound profiles, and full respect for your system UI sound settings.
Local Writing Privacy
Your voice, transcripts, and rewritten text stay on your Mac. Echo Flow AI runs locally after a one-time setup download.
Reliable Capture
Your first and last words don't get eaten. Streaming recognition is cross-checked against the recorded file so opening and closing words survive before anything pastes.
Echo Flow Speech Engine
Accurate from the first launch, with nothing extra to download. Bundled on-device recognition on Apple Neural Engine, and no waiting on macOS system models.
Undo Last Paste
Pasted into the wrong window? Undo puts your clipboard back the way it was. A safety net under every dictation and rewrite.
Clinical Note
Speak a 2–10 minute summary, get a structured SOAP, DAP, BIRP, GIRP, Progress, or Intake note. On-device, and you review it before it pastes.
A structured note, straight from your summary
Press ⌥⌘N and speak your 2–10 minute post-session summary. Echo Flow organizes it into a SOAP, DAP, BIRP, GIRP, Progress, or Intake note, or a template you design for your own practice. Works with any web-based practice-management system: focus the text field you already use.
- ✓Organized, not invented. Echo Flow sorts your dictated sentences into template sections and omits what you didn't cover. It never writes clinical content for you.
- ✓Review before it lands. Every note opens in a full editor, edit, paste into the field you were using, copy, or discard. Notes never auto-paste.
- ✓Built for long dictation. A dedicated toggle shortcut, an 8-minute warning, and a 10-minute cap keep long recordings reliable.
- ✓PHI stays local. Organization runs on-device. Recordings are deleted as soon as they're transcribed; only the raw transcript is stored, for a retention period you choose.
Subjective
Client reported anxiety around upcoming finals. Sleep has improved since last week, roughly seven hours a night.
Objective
Appeared calm and engaged throughout. Completed worry log for three of seven days.
Assessment
Continued cognitive behavioral therapy; worry log introduced and accepted.
Plan, accepted ✓
Practice breathing exercise before exams. Meet again next Thursday.
Mail →
"Could you send me the report by end of day? I'd appreciate your review before the board meeting."
Slack →
"can you send over the report today? want it in before the board sync 👍"
Code →
// fix: retry fetch_user on timeout, verbatim as spoken
The app that reads the room
Echo Flow detects which app you're in and adapts its tone automatically. Mail → professional emails. Slack → casual and concise. Code → verbatim, no polish. Notes → structured and bullet-friendly. You can override once, it remembers per app.
- ✓Auto-detects 30+ apps and maps the right tone
- ✓Remembers your per-app preferences
- ✓Shows context indicator in the recording overlay
A speech engine built in, not rented
Echo Flow ships with its own on-device speech engine, bundled in the app and tuned for the way people actually dictate. It runs on Apple Neural Engine, so transcription stays on your Mac with the same accuracy on every supported Mac.
- ✓100% on-device, no cloud transcription, no audio ever leaves your Mac
- ✓First-run ready, bundled, so you dictate accurately the first time you open the app
- ✓Tuned for dictation, strong on proper nouns, acronyms, and the function words real speech drops
- ✓Switch any time, pick Echo Flow Speech Engine or Apple's built-in recognizer in Settings
Echo Flow Speech Engine
Bundled, on-device, tuned for dictation. Runs on Apple Neural Engine.
Apple's built-in recognizer
Apple's own on-device speech recognition. Available as an alternative in Settings.
Rewrite anything, anywhere.
Select any text in any app and press ⌥⇧Space. Nine practical actions plus custom styles, powered by Echo Flow AI locally after setup. No copy-pasting into ChatGPT. No browser tabs.
- ✓Works on selected text in any app
- ✓Fix Writing · Make It Shorter · Smooth Out · Sound Pro · Sound Friendly · Sound Confident · Bullet Points · Key Takeaways · Keep Original
Review before it lands.
Enable Preview Before Paste and see your polished text in a frosted-glass popup before it goes anywhere. Build trust with AI-polished output, no more "oh no" moments.
- ✓Preview popup with Paste / Edit / Discard
- ✓No auto-paste timer, you stay in control
- ✓Optional, toggle on or off in Settings
Searchable history.
Every transcription is saved with word counts, timestamps, and polish tracking. Search your archive anytime. Revisit past dictations, copy text, or refine again.
- ✓Full transcription archive with search
- ✓Copy, open, or refine again with one click
Fine-grained control.
Shape how Echo Flow understands and writes for you. Choose your default tone, set conciseness level, protect words from alteration, and build a custom vocabulary.
- ✓Adjustable tone and conciseness
- ✓Protected words that never change
- ✓Custom vocabulary for consistent phrasing
Your writing stays
on your Mac
Your dictated audio, transcripts, and rewritten text stay on your Mac. Operational network calls are limited to setup downloads, updates, licensing, purchase redirects, and optional email signup.
- ✓On-device speech recognition via Apple
- ✓Echo Flow AI runs locally after setup
- ✓No cloud sync, no app account, no training on your content
Ready in 30 seconds
Three permissions. One shortcut. Start dictating immediately. No accounts to create, no cloud to configure, no tutorials to watch.
- ✓Grant microphone and accessibility access
- ✓Confirm your shortcut (⌥ + Space)
- ✓Start dictating in any app
How Echo Flow compares
See why users choose Echo Flow over built-in and cloud alternatives.
vs. Dragon
$69.99 vs. $500+. No training. On-device.
Compare →vs. Wispr Flow
One-time price vs. $15/mo. Mac-native and on-device.
Compare →vs. Aqua Voice
On-device vs. cloud processing. Pick your tradeoff.
Compare →vs. macOS Dictation
Built into macOS vs. built around your writing.
Compare →vs. Whisper / Cloud AI
Comparable accuracy, zero cloud risk. One price.
Compare →Master Comparison
All competitors, one table. See everything.
Open the table →Keyboard shortcuts
Every command you need, at your fingertips.
| Start dictation | ⌥ Space |
| Cancel dictation | Esc |
| Rewrite selected text | ⌥ ⇧ Space |
| Paste from preview | Return |
| Edit from preview | E |
| Discard from preview | Esc |
| New clinical note | ⌥ ⌘ N |
| Undo last paste | ⌥ ⌘ Z |
Type less. Say more
14-day free trial for dictation. No credit card required. Rewrite palette stays available after trial expiry. One-time purchase unlocks lifetime dictation access. There is no month 13 invoice.