The best dictation app for fiction authors.
Speak your story and get accurate transcripts ready to drop into your manuscript, so the words keep flowing as fast as you can imagine them.
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Fictate™ keeps your first session simple. Three taps, and your words are on the page:
Open Fictate™ and tap Record.
Write your story by voice. A scene, a sketch, an idea.
Your words are saved instantly. Tap Transcribe to see them appear.
That's it. You can get fancy later, adding character names to your dictionary, creating a story outline, even dictating straight into your writing software with Fictate™ Anywhere. But this is where you start.
“Wow! This is the only dictation app I've ever tried that coped completely with my northern British accent! It's WONDERFUL! Every word I said, spelt correctly too. It worked out of the box! Well done!”
—Sharon, historical fiction author, UK“As someone with a thick Southern accent, I've struggled with dictation because cleaning up the transcription can be difficult when it mishears my words. I love that this app lets me teach it words so it can better understand me.”
—Jennifer, historical romance author“Wow! I'm impressed. It was able to pick up French names and words (spoken with French pronunciation) such as Mademoiselle and Archambault. I thought I'd need to add those to the dictionary.”
—Méline Goulet, historical fiction authorMany fiction authors have, and most have given up on it. The transcript came back a mess. It mangled your character names. It had no idea what to do with dialogue. You spent longer cleaning up than you would have spent typing.
Enter: Fictate™
It understands how you write as a fiction author. Rather than fidgeting with an app made for business people and meeting notes, you dictate your fictional world and watch it come to life accurately.
“I have tried dictating into Google Docs, Word, email, Google Keep, the recording app on my Google Pixel, and Dragon, and none of them were this accurate and effortless.”
—Trisha Tuttle, romance author“It's so good. I've been dictating for more than ten years and I haven't seen anything like this for fiction. It's blowing my mind.”
—Maisey Yates, contemporary romance author
Your character names, your places, your invented spellings. Fix a word once, and Fictate™ gets it right from then on.
Add one word at a time, or better yet, paste in a chapter or your whole manuscript and let Fictate™ find your words all at once.
“Added my first dictionary word, and the entire transcript was INSTANTLY updated perfectly. I just about swooned.”
—Elena Grout, romantasy author“The only difficulty it had was with Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) character and place names, but that was easily solved by adding the correct spelling to my custom dictionary.”
—Tracy Wilson, historical romance authorFictate is designed around one thing: a reliable, effortless path from your voice to your manuscript. Recording, transcription, cleanup, word counts, and a session timer. One app instead of five.
“This is the greatest dictation app of all time. I'm so grateful to have the chance to use it. I started using it a week ago… and deleted my other dictation apps/tools within 24 hours. 😂 I'm hooked. HOOKED I tell you!”
—Laura Cheever, Christian fantasy romance authorAdd your characters and invented words, or paste in a chapter or your entire manuscript and let Fictate learn them, so they’re spelled your way every single time. Add a new word right inside a transcript, and the transcript updates to match.
Your words become clear, readable text you can copy, email, or keep polishing.
Optional AI-powered cleanup. Teach it your formatting and style, and it tidies transcripts the way you would, or turn it off entirely. It never rewrites your sentences into what a machine thinks you meant. Your voice stays yours.
Keep your story structure in front of you while you dictate, scene after scene.
iPhone, Android, and your browser on Mac or Windows, all on the same account. Dictate a scene on your phone, open your laptop, and it is already there.
Record with no signal at all, and everything syncs when you're back online. Authors have turned daily walks and backyard afternoons into written words.
“I've dictated about 700 words today and the quality of transcription is truly amazing... I am in love with this app already!”
—Claire, author“What I'm loving about Fictate is having everything in one place. I could be using up to three different apps to track my word count, timer and clean up.”
—Emily Trudeau, historical Christian romance authorFictate™ transcribes 99 languages. Choose yours in Account Settings.
Scrivener, Word, Google Docs, wherever your story already lives. No copying, no pasting, no switching apps. Your words appear right where your cursor is.
1. Install the Fictate™ app from inside your Account Settings. Open your writing app and tap Start.
2. Speak your scene. Tap the check when you're finished.
3. Your words land in the document, formatted and ready.
Advanced, powerful, and effortless. It works on your computer too.
“This app has given me the confidence to use dictation as a regular part of my writing routine. I love the app.”
—Jane Bettany, crime author“I am able to upload the beats for the next chapter into the app and go for a walk while dictating. Then the app will transcribe and clean up the chapter so I can download into Scrivener. I'm very excited at how this is freeing up my writing. I can narrate 2000 words in under 30 minutes.”
—Kathy Brasby, sci-fi authorMost dictation tools are made for email and to-do lists. Fictate is designed for fiction, for the novelist ready to speak their story onto the page.
“It just works. Rather than fidgeting with the app, I'm able to just login and start dictating and transcribing. It's great for beginners like me.”
—Cliff Hamrick, LPC-S, fantasy and LitRPG authorNovelists, short story writers, anyone drafting fiction. Some authors dictate because it's faster than typing. Some dictate because typing hurts, or is simply no longer possible. Fictate™ is designed to help you build a sustainable author career.
Your writing is never used to train AI models. We do not read your work. You hold every right to everything you dictate. Read our privacy promise →
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Get Fictate™ on your phone or right in your browser, and get your first dictation win today.
Available on iPhone, Android, and any browser on Mac or Windows.
Want to write on your computer? Create your account and subscribe right in your browser at app.fictateapp.com — or in the iPhone or Android app. One subscription covers all of your devices.
Billing runs through the App Store, Google Play, or secure browser checkout (handled by Paddle), and you can cancel anytime from Account & Settings.