Cofactor

Everything in Cofactor.

42 features, with where each one runs and which plan includes it. Anything marked Pro or Team needs that plan. The rest is free.

Private, free and always working

Your voice stays on your device, and the core of the app costs nothing.

  • Dictation with no signaliPhone and Mac

    Talk in a tunnel or a cabin. After a one-time language download, everything runs on your device.

    Free
  • No word capiPhone and Mac

    Dictate all day. There's no weekly limit and no trial clock.

    Free
  • Your voice stays putiPhone and Mac

    Your audio is never uploaded for transcription. Text leaves your device only if you opt into sync, the Automation API or your own polish server.

    Free
  • Saved before it's transcribediPhone and Mac

    Your audio is stored first, so a failed take waits in History with a Retry button.

    Free
  • Original or PolishediPhone

    Open a History entry to compare what you said with what Cofactor wrote, then keep the version you like.

    Free
  • Backup, export and optional synciPhone and Mac

    Back up and export your data. Encrypted sync across your devices is opt-in with a free account.

    Free

Dictation that reads like you wrote it

Say it the messy way. The words that land are the ones you meant.

  • Course correctioniPhone

    Say “meet at 5, actually 6” and get “Meet at 6.” It is built to keep the words you meant.

    Free
  • Spoken commandsiPhone

    Say “new paragraph”, “new line”, “bullet point” or “scratch that” and it happens, instead of being typed out.

    Free
  • Numerals on demandiPhone

    Say “numeral 2” when you want the digit 2, even if the recognizer wrote the word.

    Free
  • Auto language, including SpanglishiPhone

    Auto detects English and Spanish in the same dictation. Or pick English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Japanese or Korean.

    Free
  • Punctuation in the right placesiPhone

    Commas, periods and question marks go where they belong, and a long list of items stays one sentence.

    Free
  • Polish leveliPhone

    Light fixes punctuation and typos. Normal cleans up phrasing. Aggressive rewrites for clarity. Maximum polish, a separate setting, is Pro.

    FreeMaximum polish: Pro
  • Text first, polish secondiPhone

    Your words appear right away. A moment later the polished version swaps in, only where it changed.

    Free
  • Your vocabularyiPhone and Mac

    Teach it your names, brands and jargon once, and it spells them right from then on.

    Free
  • Most accurate speech modeliPhone and Mac

    Balanced is free. Best, our most accurate speech model, comes with Pro.

    Balanced: FreeBest: Pro

A keyboard that does more than listen

Talk when it's faster. Type when it isn't. Same keyboard, every app.

  • Layouts that fit the fieldiPhone

    Email, web address, number and phone fields get the keys they need.

    Free
  • Redo chipiPhone

    After a dictation, tap Redo to run it again at another polish level or style. Undo brings the first version back.

    Free
  • Partial redoiPhone

    Select any text and make it Bullets, Paragraph, Shorter or More formal, without redoing the rest.

    Free
  • Saved phrasesiPhone

    Your address, your bio, your “thanks, talk soon.” Insert by tap, by typing a trigger, or by saying it. Organize with tags.

    Free
  • Emoji paneliPhone

    A one-tap emoji panel built into the keyboard.

    Free
  • Swipe typing (Beta)iPhone

    Glide one-handed when you can't talk out loud. Off until you turn it on.

    Free
  • Make it yoursiPhone

    Bigger keys, your number style, accents, cursor control on the space bar, and next-word suggestions.

    Free
  • Insert last sentenceiPhone

    Hold the control to drop your last dictated sentence back into the field.

    Free

Match the app

Email sounds like email. A text sounds like a text. You don't switch anything.

  • Per-app stylesiPhone and Mac

    Cofactor spots the app you're dictating into and formats for it: email, chat or notes.

    Free
  • Email formattingiPhone

    A greeting, short paragraphs and a sign-off. Add your name under “Sign emails as.”

    Free
  • Chat and notesiPhone

    Chat gets short, casual lines with no greeting. Notes keep paragraphs and turn spoken lists into bullets.

    Free
  • Writing tonesiPhone and Mac

    Casual, Formal, Concise, Email or Bullets. Same words, right voice.

    Free
  • Your own per-app rulesMac

    Set the exact style for any Mac app, instead of relying on the automatic match.

    Pro
  • Custom writing modesiPhone

    Write your own instructions and save them as a mode.

    Pro

Notes and voice notes

Catch a thought now. Sort it out later.

  • NotesiPhone and Mac

    Offline notes that autosave every edit and keep a recovery copy.

    Free
  • Voice notesiPhone

    Your spoken words go into the body, with paragraphs. The title is a short summary.

    Free
  • Audio and video filesiPhone

    Share an audio or video file to Cofactor and get a transcript saved in History.

    Free

Mic handling

The right mic, without digging through Settings.

  • Auto miciPhone

    Auto uses a worn headset mic, wired or earbuds, when you have one. Car kits and Bluetooth speakers never take over.

    Free
  • Stay readyiPhone

    Choose how long the mic stays warm after you stop talking, so the next tap starts instantly.

    Free
  • When another app has the miciPhone

    If another app is holding the mic, Cofactor says so and retries for you.

    Free

Shortcuts, widgets and the Automation API

Start Cofactor from anywhere, or wire it into your own tools.

  • Shortcuts actionsiPhone

    Nine actions: start dictation, open History, Dictionary or Notes, get your last dictation, create a private note, polish text, add a saved phrase, and transcribe an audio file.

    Free
  • Control Center and Lock ScreeniPhone

    Dictation and Voice Note controls, one swipe away.

    Free
  • WidgetsiPhone

    A Home Screen widget with a record button and a link to Notes, plus a Lock Screen widget.

    Free
  • Automation APIiPhone

    Create scoped tokens to read your history or send in notes, and get signed webhooks when a dictation or note is created. Off until you turn it on; needs a free account.

    Free

On the Mac

The same engine, from your keyboard.

  • Hold a key to talkMac

    Hold Fn, talk, and the text lands in whatever app you're in. A separate hands-free shortcut keeps it listening.

    Free
  • Notes window and updatesMac

    A notes window for quick capture, and the app updates itself.

    Free

For teams

Shared words for everyone on the team.

  • Shared vocabulary and phrasesiPhone and Mac

    Teams share one set of names, jargon and saved phrases, with seats and admin controls. Nobody's words are shown in usage insights.

    Team

Start with the free version.

Dictation, cleanup and the full keyboard are free on iPhone and Mac. Pro starts with a 30-day free trial.

Launching soon on the App Store.