Author Love

"Love this app!! I'm having so much fun! :)"

— Alyssa Eash, historical fiction author

"Today I was transcribing while I was walking and we have really windy conditions, wind gusts sometimes like 12 miles an hour, and it transcribed perfectly. So I'm really pleased with the transcription. With less than great microphones, on my headphones it's just a pair of cheap earbuds from Walmart, and it did a good job. This app is solid gold."

"I just transcribed almost 1700 words in about… I think it said seven minutes when I stopped recording and the cleanup was amazing. This app is a game changer for me because I walk home every day and that gives me an hour that I can dictate my story while I'm walking."

"It is taking the fear of dictating. I have practiced dictating when I chart for my job but still had fear for writing but when I used this app it was a total game changer."

"Sarah I'm thankful you have created this app."

— Angela Hernandez, romance author

"I absolutely love the elegant style of the dark theme!"

"I've always dreamed of this type of program/app to be developed since I started back in the day with Dragon Naturally Speaking… So I'm immensely happy to see this now! Thank you!!"

— Angelina Werner, cozy romance and sci-fi author

"So far I love how clean the dictation is. It picks up every word dictating straight into my phone and held 10 to 12 inches away from my mouth."

"I'm too focused on what I'm saying to think about punctuation so I said Quote. Then I found the place where you can write instructions for cleanup and asked to have quotation marks whenever I say quote and voila it did on my clean up."

— Ann, fantasy and thriller author

"I went from 300 to 900 words in my writing sprints! Seriously loving it."

— Annah Wyatt

"I downloaded the app today and was blown away by how well it transcribed in Danish! And I'm so, so happy about the privacy measures."

— Camilla, writing from Copenhagen, Denmark

"Love that it keeps using the microphone when I flip out of the app…so I can look up notes/outline for the scene I'm working on as I dictate. Love the accuracy of the transcription."

"Love being able to add fantasy character names to the dictionary!"

"I'm so excited to be testing this out (and it works so much better than just using the microphone on my iPhone)!"

"Overall, this is really amazing and I can't wait to start using it regularly."

— Christine, fantasy author

"I've dictated about 700 words today and the quality of transcription is truly amazing… I am in love with this app already!"

— Claire

"I tried free speech to text and nearly threw my computer thru the window. With nerve damage in my arms and down to 400 words a day max, this will help."

— Claire O'Sullivan, historical fiction author

"The simplicity. 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 author

"Added my first dictionary word, and the entire transcript was INSTANTLY updated perfectly. I just about swooned."

— Elena Grout, romantasy author

"I love everything about Fictate™. It's stunning."

— Elizabeth Clack, literary historical fiction author

"How cleanly it recorded and transcribed my words, even before clean up. I usually dictate directly into Scrivener… but Fictate put down the words way more clearly."

"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. This keeps it all in one place!"

"I love the ease of use and the simplicity. You just hit the big button and go!"

— Emily Trudeau, historical Christian romance author

"The other day I was saying I couldn't dictate. I tried this app and I'm hooked! Turns out I just needed one that ACTUALLY WORKED."

"I was struggling so much with it, used this app ONCE, and was hooked!"

"I tried out cleanup and it's so smooth. Added in quotation marks for me which is my biggest annoyance with other dictation software."

— Winnifred "Fred" Fritz, sci-fantasy and paranormal romance author

"Fictate™ was the first time I've ever tried dictating and I was talking and pausing so much — no eloquence in sight. I wrote 2300 words in less than 20 minutes dictating, I was SHOCKED!! I love the app :)"

— Hailey Holmes

"I got all set up in the app this morning and WOW. You've literally thought of everything!! The dictionary, the outline available on the screen, how it pauses with a phone call, how nothing is deleted unless I do it, two punctuation options…I've never tried dictation but this is hands down the only tool I'll use to learn!"

— Jacqueline Orosco

"I've been very pleased with the ease of dictating and how accurate the app is… everything I've needed has been added before I got a chance to respond… I'm so excited about using it."

— Jaden Terrell, mystery and thriller author

"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 was expecting a basic recording app, but this works way better. I love how it picks up my voice from farther away… I also love how many features are included in the same app."

— Janeen Ippolito, urban fantasy author

"It's so easy to upload my recordings to email! Seamless and intuitive!"

— Janet Burnett, romance and cozy mystery author

"During my dictation if a phrase is italicize, I will say italicize the word and it does on clean up. I love that because I don't have to do it manually when I edit it."

— Janet Zeliff, cozy mystery author

"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. I also like that the audio is available with the transcription so I can hear what I was saying to help me clean it up."

— Jennifer, historical romance author

"I'm using it for both my writing and even things for work. The accuracy and time savings offer significant value. The best example was Outlook — the speech to text ends up being a starting place and I have to rewrite. Not here."

— Joe

"This app is fantastic! 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. Thanks, Sarah, for designing an app aimed at fiction writers!"

— Kathy Brasby, sci-fi author

"I love the app. The mic is so sensitive, I love that I don't feel like I have to be louder than necessary. (I dictate early in the morning or when the house is empty as I don't want to wake my husband.) I have been surprised with how easy it is to work with."

— Kay Brooks, romantic thriller author

"Actually I love everything!!! … You fixed everything I felt was wrong with other dictation software. I'm about to dive in properly now. Thank you for doing this app."

— Khardine Gray, dark romance and romantasy author

"I absolutely LOVE this app! I've struggled writing due to health issues but this app simplifies everything!"

"Things I now cannot live without:"

"Picking up where I left off. This is a GAME-CHANGER! I have a smart (Plaud) recorder and it does not have this function. I NEED this when dictating my novel. You've ruined me for all other devices.😂"

"Readability: Seriously, I can see and read it without squinting! This alone makes me want to keep the app - and hug you!"

"It takes SECONDS to start dictating. No distractions at all. It's incredibly efficient."

— Kitty, cozy romantic suspense author

"Your app is BRILLIANT, Sarah! I took your Fictation class and had trouble making it a regular practice - for ALL the reasons your app corrects! Thank you so much! I'm eager to give it another try, and I have a feeling the step count on my walks will greatly improve, too!"

— Krista Santora

"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!"

"I've only used this app for about a day, but I'm already so impressed with it! …I previously had to use multiple apps/tools (with multiple subscriptions) to do what Fictate does — and Fictate does it better."

"*gasping* 😱 Obsessed with the new daily word count total. I usually dictate in 10 minute sessions with breaks between. It's cool to see that little chunks of progress are actually adding up!"

"Loving this app so much!!"

— Laura Cheever, Christian fantasy 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

"I know I'm not coming close to tapping into the power of this app, but it is already a game changer! I'm loving it!"

— Margaret

"I love how easy it is to email the transcript. Definitely made me feel like I helped make it better — it makes a difference to me that you listened."

— Martha Hutchens, inspirational historical romance author

"When it transcribed, I was pleasantly surprised to see it recognized my pauses as sentence endings, and added periods, capitalized the next letter… I've never had a VTT add periods automatically. Well done!"

— Mary, nonfiction and poetry author

"Learning dictating with Sarah was a game changer for me, dictating while walking, for example. This is a next level game changer."

— Mary Dezember, literary and speculative fiction author

"I love how clean the dictation results are when I use Fictate! I took the dictation Boot Camp a couple years ago… and I tried a variety of different tools for dictation and this blows them all just out of the water."

"I really love the way that Fictate operates… your decision to allow us to turn off AI when it comes to refining our text is delightful."

— Meg Stout, historical fiction author

"Fictate has changed my life. I was writing 10-15 books a year using Dragon to get the bulk of those words down and it was a never ending nightmare. I LOVE Fictate!!! It's truly transformative!"

"I've been fighting with Dragon for about 10 years. I've dealt with it crashing, deleting words, garbling everything. I had to buy a PC I hated just to get better connectivity and it was still terrible. Plus: forget about customer support. There was none."

"Fictate's accuracy is unbelievable, and means I get to edit my actual words instead of tearing my hair out trying to figure out what on earth Dragon decided I said. It's giving me back hours and hours. I find it miraculous!"

"I honestly can't believe how much this app has changed my life for the better. Thank you!!!!"

— Megan Crane, also writing as Caitlin Crews, 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. Thanks for creating a much-needed dictation tool!"

— Méline Goulet, historical fiction author

"It's beautiful! I think it's the most eye pleasing, aesthetically pleasing app I've ever seen for this service and I'm really impressed with it."

— Nancy Sulaiman, novelist

"It is picking up my character names really well. This is something I usually have a lot of trouble with."

— Nicole

"When I tried to dictate in word it struggled with my kiwi talk which almost caused me to stop trying. This makes it so easy for learners."

— Rulan Oosthoek

"Wow! This is the only dictation app I've ever tried, that coped completely with my northern british accent! Its WONDERFUL! …every word I said… spelt correctly too… it worked out of the box! Well done!"

— Sharon, historical fiction author, UK

"I'm mesmerized by the accuracy of this app's transcription and clean up features. In addition, I have now done ten days of Morning Pages fictation to practice dictating more fluidly. Today's count, 958 words in 7 minutes. The process led to a major breakthrough with a troublesome plot point with which I have been wrestling in novel revision. I will use the notes to make the changes. Even if I don't conquer fictation fluency well for writing, the process of speaking out loud about my creative projects adds tremendous value to efficiency. THANK YOU for engaging me in the dictation world and for this app."

— Stacey Millett, flash-fiction and nonfiction author

"I've been trying to shift to dictation but struggled with several tools not worth a bean. I thought I'd try Fictate after I saw your post on AuthorMedia Social. And what a surprise. Fictate understands me. A game changer. Thank you so much."

— Stephen Frost, crime fiction author

"In my first test recording the app transcribed correctly into German, which is the language I use for my novel. I was very thrilled about that, and it transcribed correctly! Many thanks from Susanne"

— Susanne, writing her novel in German

"I just dictated something I'd handwritten, and first of all: everything went perfectly. But the CLEANUP TOOL. I LOVE IT. It saved me so much time. I am a big fan, and this is already the cleanest transcription that I've ever gotten from any app."

— Thea, contemporary romance author

"As a writer who depends on speech recognition due to quadriplegia, I love your program. I've struggled with dictation software for years, often facing misunderstandings and needing many corrections. Recently, I tried other recording and transcription tools, but they produce large blocks of text that I have to manually divide into paragraphs or use chat GPT to do it for me. Your program naturally handles this, saving me a step. As a fiction writer, it also improves dialogue formatting significantly. I believe this will be a game changer and a big time saver."

— Tiffany Tharpe, Christian romance author

"I've already told two people about this app!"

— Tracie Heskett, historical and fantasy author

"Wow! The Fictate app transcribed my words beautifully. I was a little concerned that it might struggle with my South African accent, but it handled it remarkably well. I'm very impressed and my experience has been extremely positive."

"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 author

"I have tried dictating into Google Docs, Word, email, Google Keep, the recording app on my Google Pixel, and Dragon (that was while working at my last job), and none of them were this accurate and effortless. It was what I was most worried about when I began to make a move toward dictating instead of typing, but because of my disability, dictating became integral if I was to continue writing."

— Trisha Tuttle, romance author

"50 headed hydras, AKA 500 words in 5 minutes! I can't type that fast, but I've managed to do it in Fictate, which helps with the word crawls I do!"

"I love the pause button! It's so handy if I need to have a drink…"

— Trudy Goold, fantasy and sci-fi author

"I have an accent and today, a scratchy throat, but it got every word perfectly. It is so clear, it is not necessary to project my voice… Several times, I mispronounced a word, then I said it again correctly. I was expecting to have to clean up manually that part of the transcript, but to my surprise, with the clean up button, it transcribed only the correct word."

— Wilma, nonfiction author