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Draft into your tool
Dettivo dictates directly into the focused app. Scrivener, Ulysses, iA Writer, Drafts, Bear, Obsidian, wherever you draft, your voice goes there.
→ Direct insertion
§ For writersAll use cases
First drafts at the speed you talk.
Quotes captured cleanly.
Most writers know what they want to say before they want to type. Dettivo turns the Mac into a fast private speech layer for Scrivener, Ulysses, iA Writer, Drafts, Bear, interviews, and voice notes.
Tools you already useScrivenerUlyssesiA WriterDraftsBearObsidianNotionGoogle Docs
§ The current circuit
The writer’s usual circuit
macOS native dictation gives up after 30 seconds and never gets punctuation right. Otter charges you $17/month and asks the source to accept a meeting bot. Voice memos pile up untranscribed. You lose three days a year copying quotes from a phone recorder.
§ How Dettivo fits
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Three modes for three drafts
Raw keeps every "um" and false start so you can revise honestly. Polish fixes spelling and punctuation deterministically, no LLM, instant. Enhanced cleans up filler with a model that never invents content.
→ Polish modes
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Bot-free interviews
Capture an interview the same way you capture a meeting, system audio plus your mic. No bot guest. Your source doesn’t have to accept anything.
→ Meeting capture
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Quick Note for ideas
A separate hotkey for the thought you had walking to the car. Goes straight to your vault. Doesn’t break the focused app.
→ Quick Note
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Searchable history
Every dictation, every interview, kept locally. Search the line you remember saying in March; replay the audio.
→ History
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Custom dictionary
The names of your subjects, the spelling of the city you’re reporting on, your editor’s preferred AP-style quirks. Per-language.
→ Custom dictionary
§ Adjacent cost
Tools your role typically pays $204/year for. Dettivo is $45 once.
That number is a typical mix for writers (one transcription tool + one meeting service). Dettivo replaces the meeting service entirely and the dictation tool, paid once.
You write because typing is too slow. Stop letting the dictation tool be the bottleneck.