nowbie is now on Mac. 14 days free, no credit card.See pricing

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I talk the way I think. nowbie writes the way I need.

Say what’s on your mind, the way it comes. nowbie writes it for you: a polished email, a message to someone close, a clean list. In the right tone, without changing what you mean.

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macOS 14+ · Apple silicon and Intel

Your own

One dictation.Your way of writing it.

A persona is a way of writing. Pick it with a double press on fn, and it writes under your cursor, in the app you have open.

It finds the words, never the facts: nothing added to what you said.

The library, ready to use.

Personas for every day, and others cut for your job.

Double-tap fn to switch personas.

For everyone

  • Natural
  • Transcript
  • Professional
  • Email
  • Short message
  • Bullet notes
  • English translation

By role

  • Senior PO/PM
  • Dev & tech lead
  • AI prompt
  • Sales
  • Recruiting
  • Customer support
  • LinkedIn
  • Meeting notes

Your persona,in one sentence.

Describe it the way you’d tell a colleague. nowbie writes its instructions, you try it before saving, and you can edit them anytime.

One finger on fn.The rest follows.

  1. Hold fn

    Click into a text field and keep your finger on fn. nowbie listens for as long as the key is down.

  2. Talk naturally

    Hesitate, correct yourself, change your mind halfway. The “um”s and false starts go; your meaning stays.

  3. Let go: it’s pasted

    Your persona rewrites the dictation and drops it at your cursor. Read it, send it.

Say the idea.Your persona finds the tone.

At the keyboard you hunt for words, then for the right tone for each reader. Out loud you just say the idea: your persona turns it into a message, an email or a clear instruction, without making anything up.

At the keyboard

You hunt for words. Then the tone.

nowbie

Say the idea. The tone follows.

A persona for every kind of text.

  • A message to a friendNatural
  • A polished emailEmail
  • Your list for the weekBullet notes
  • A LinkedIn postLinkedIn
  • A reply to a customerCustomer support
  • A message in EnglishEnglish translation
  • A quick replyShort message
  • An email to the landlordEmail
  • A meeting summaryMeeting notes
  • A professional messageProfessional
  • A follow-up on a quoteSales

Designed aroundyour everyday.

  • Your dictionary, your words.

    Names, brands, jargon: add them once and nowbie spells them right.

  • Hands-free: “Hey Nowbie”.

    Say “Hey Nowbie”, then dictate. No need to touch the keyboard.

  • Double fn, new persona.

    fn always dictates with the active persona. A double tap moves to the next one, hands on the keyboard.

  • Never in the wrong place.

    nowbie never pastes into a different window than the one you started in, and never into a password field.

Your voice stays yours.

nowbie keeps no dictations on its servers; your history stays on your Mac. For rewriting, your dictation is sent to Google’s Gemini AI, which never uses it to train or improve its models, and keeps it only for the limited time needed to prevent abuse.

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  1. Your MacYour dictation history stays here.
  2. nowbie serversNo dictation kept.
  3. Gemini (Google)Rewrites your dictation, never uses it to train its models.

Try everything. Pay only if it changes how you write.

14 days to try everything, no credit card. After that, one plan: nowbie Pro.

  • Trial

    14 days free

    €0for 14 days

    Start the trial
    • All of nowbie, listed below
    • No credit card required
    • Starts when you sign up
    • One trial per Mac
    • Then nowbie Pro to keep going
  • Pro

    nowbie Pro

    €7.99/month

    or €69 a year on yearly billing (−28%)

    Download for Mac
    • All of nowbie, listed below
    • 1,000 dictations a month
    • Cancel anytime, in nowbie (Settings › Subscription) or on nowbie.app, in My account

Included in the trial and in nowbie Pro.

Dictate

  • Anywhere on your Mac: hold fn, speak, let go. The text appears at your cursor, in the app you’re writing in.
  • “Hey Nowbie” to start a dictation by voice. The wake phrase is heard on your Mac and works in English.
  • Up to 5 minutes per dictation.
  • 1,000 dictations a month. Only dictations that go through count.
  • Double-tap fn: next persona.

Personas

  • A library of 15 ready-made personas: email, short message, bullet notes, English translation, and more.
  • Create your own by describing it in one sentence, and try it before saving it.
  • Your dictionary: the names, brands and terms you use, spelled right.

Your Mac, your data

  • Your history stays on your Mac: text for 90 days, audio for 7 days. You can recover a dictation.
  • nowbie keeps no dictation on its servers.
  • macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon and Intel.

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Good questions.

Questions

  • And it does its job well: transcribing. nowbie does something else: it rewrites your dictation as you speak, with the persona you picked, and drops it at your cursor. You say your idea in a mess, you get a clean email or a message that sounds like you. If a raw transcript is enough, keep Apple.

  • Then you know the gesture: it’s the same, fn. The difference is the experience: in nowbie, everything starts from the persona. You pick who writes, or create your own in one sentence, and it finds the words without touching the facts. One tip if you try both: quit Wispr Flow while you try nowbie, otherwise both apps listen to fn at once. nowbie warns you at install.

  • Yes. Describe it in one sentence: nowbie writes its instructions, you try it before saving, and you can edit them anytime.

  • nowbie keeps no dictations on its servers; your history stays on your Mac. For rewriting, your dictation is sent to Google’s Gemini AI, which never uses it to train or improve its models, and keeps it only for the limited time needed to prevent abuse.

  • You get 14 days free, no credit card, with everything included. The trial starts when you sign up. One trial per Mac. After that, to keep going, there is one plan: nowbie Pro, €7.99 a month or €69 a year.

  • 1,000 dictations a month with nowbie Pro, about 45 per working day. Only dictations that go through count: a failed attempt never does.

  • Yes, anytime and free of charge, in nowbie (Settings › Subscription) or on nowbie.app, with the “Cancel your contract” link at the bottom of every page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period.

  • Yes: macOS 14 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel. We’d rather do one thing very well, where you write every day.

  • Yes. fn always dictates with the active persona; a double tap on fn moves to the next one. You can also create your own: a name, a color, instructions.

Answer

Apple dictation is free. Why nowbie?

And it does its job well: transcribing. nowbie does something else: it rewrites your dictation as you speak, with the persona you picked, and drops it at your cursor. You say your idea in a mess, you get a clean email or a message that sounds like you. If a raw transcript is enough, keep Apple.

Try nowbie for 14 days.No card needed.

Pick your persona, or create your own in one sentence.

Download for Mac

For Mac · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon and Intel