Introducing Monologue: Effortless Voice Dictation

TLDR: Today, we’re introducing Monologue, an AI voice dictation app for Mac. It writes the way you talk so you can work 3x faster without breaking flow. Learn more in our video, and try it for free.

Monologue is available today as part of a paid Every subscription, along with all of our writing and the other AI apps, including Cora, Spiral, and Sparkle.

You talk faster than you type. But speech-to-text apps always leave words lost in translation—until now.

Today, I’m proud to introduce the fourth software product in the Every subscription, Monologue.

Monologue is a voice dictation app for Mac that writes the way you talk. It understands your vocabulary, your apps, and your style—so you can work 3x faster without breaking flow.

Here’s just some of what Monologue offers:

1. Smart formatting. Text comes out polished and structured for the app you’re in—no cleanup needed.
2. Personal dictionary. Proper nouns, acronyms, and slang are remembered automatically.
3. Deep context. With permission, Monologue sees your screen so it knows what you’re referencing.
4. Multilingual by default. Dictate in 100-plus languages and switch between them effortlessly.
5. Flexible modes. Use prebuilt workflows (email, docs, notes, code) or design your own.

Monologue has been in private beta for the last few months, and people love it. It’s already being used about 7,000 times a day to write over 1 million words a week. Here’s what a few of them had to say:

If you're already a paid Every subscriber, you have access to Monologue. Otherwise, you can try Monologue for free for up to 1,000 words or buy it as a standalone app for early-bird pricing of $10 per month.

Or you can get it as part of your Every subscription for $30 per month.

Why we built it

Monologue was built by a single developer, Every entrepreneur in residence (EIR) Naveen Naidu. He built the first version in one weekend because he wanted a better voice dictation app that could automatically send his dictated messages. He demoed it for the other Every EIRs, and soon the entire team switched to it from their other voice-to-text apps. That’s when we knew we had something great.

What makes Monologue special is it speaks every language you do. Our users don’t talk in neat, uniform sentences. They weave together startup metrics and poetry, code snippets and slang, English, Spanish, and Urdu—sometimes all in the same paragraph.

Unlike other dictation apps, Monologue doesn’t force you into a template or flatten your voice. Instead, it listens, learns, and translates across disciplines and languages—so you can move from thought to publish without breaking flow.

Whether you’re speaking the language of your craft, culture, or context, Monologue can speak it too.

What comes next

At Every, we’ve unlocked a new way of building: highly crafted AI apps that can stand toe-to-toe with companies backed by $50 million and teams of 100. Here’s how we do it:

We live in the future together. We write about what we see. We build what’s missing.

Our ecosystem already includes four apps—Monologue, Cora, Spiral, and Sparkle—plus our daily newsletter and live events. But this is just the start. Every step of the journey, we’ll share what we’re learning and ship what we wish existed.

If you’re a high-taste AI early adopter, Every is the only subscription you need other than ChatGPT. Paid subscribers get access to our entire ecosystem of ideas and apps that keep you at the edge of AI.

Dan Shipper is the cofounder and CEO of Every, where he writes the Chain of Thought column and hosts the podcast AI & I. You can follow him on X at @danshipper and on LinkedIn, and Every on X at @every and on LinkedIn.

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