# ParrotPad

> ParrotPad is a cross-platform voice dictation desktop app for macOS and Windows. Hold a global hotkey, speak, release - a clean, punctuated transcript is pasted at your cursor in any app (Slack, Gmail, ChatGPT, Cursor, Notion, anywhere). Built on best-in-class speech-to-text. No LLM rewriting your words. Free tier 5,000 words/week; Parrot Pro at $10/month or $96/year ($8/month effective); Parrot Teams from $9/seat/month for 3+ seats.

ParrotPad is the smallest desktop dictation tool that feels good to use daily. Latency target is under 1 second from hotkey release to pasted text for 5-10 second utterances. Audio is never retained by default. The personal dictionary boosts accuracy on the terms your job depends on - stack words, customer names, jargon - so they land right every time.

## Product
- [Home](/index.md): What ParrotPad is, who it's for, and the 30-second pitch
- [Features](/features.md): Hotkeys, floating mic indicator, personal dictionary, transcript history, snippets (coming soon), Mac + Windows
- [Pricing](/pricing.md): Free (5,000 words/wk, 30 transcripts of history, 50-term dictionary). Parrot Pro $10/mo or $96/yr unlimited. Parrot Teams from $9/seat/mo for 3+ seats
- [Download](/download.md): Direct installers for macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows; signed and notarized on Mac
- [Contact](/contact.md): Support and sales email and form

## Use cases (`for/*`)
- [For developers](/for/developers.md): Voice for PR descriptions, Linear tickets, Cursor/Claude Code prompts; personal dictionary for stack terms (useState, Kubernetes, GraphQL, OkLCH)
- [For writers](/for/writers.md): First drafts in Google Docs, Notion, Scrivener, Substack; no LLM rewriting your prose, just clean transcription
- [For customer support](/for/customer-support.md): Dictate replies into Zendesk, Intercom, Front, HelpScout, Freshdesk; reduces average handle time
- [For email triage](/for/email.md): Inbox-zero workflows in Gmail, Outlook, Superhuman, Apple Mail, HEY

## Works with AI tools (`voice-for/*`)
- [Voice for ChatGPT](/voice-for/chatgpt.md): Dictate prompts into chat.openai.com, the ChatGPT desktop app, Custom GPTs, the API playground
- [Voice for Claude & Claude Code](/voice-for/claude.md): Dictate into Claude.ai and the Claude Code CLI in the terminal; MCP brief writing
- [Voice for Cursor](/voice-for/cursor.md): Composer briefs, Chat questions, Cmd+K inline edits all at speaking pace
- [Voice for Gemini](/voice-for/gemini.md): Gemini app, AI Studio, NotebookLM, Google Workspace (Docs, Gmail, Sheets)

## Comparisons (`vs/*`)
- [vs Wispr Flow](/vs/wispr-flow.md): $48/year cheaper; no LLM rewriting your dictation ("Command Mode"); 2.5× more free-tier words; audio never retained by default
- [vs Superwhisper](/vs/superwhisper.md): No bring-your-own-API-keys; flat $10/mo total vs Superwhisper subscription + API spend; no model picking or config
- [vs MacWhisper](/vs/macwhisper.md): Cross-platform (Mac + Windows) vs MacWhisper Mac-only; cloud STT for accuracy vs local Whisper; no setup steps

## Why it's fast and private
- **Sub-second round trip** - hotkey release to pasted text is under a second for typical 5-10 second utterances
- **Audio never retained by default** - your speech is transcribed and discarded. Opt-in retention is available with a 30-day default TTL.
- **Your words, your voice** - no LLM rewriting. Filler words removed, punctuation added, then we get out of the way.
- **Personal dictionary** - your stack words, customer names and jargon are sent as keyword hints to boost accuracy where it matters
- **Engine-agnostic** - we keep adopting better speech models as they ship, no reinstall required
- **Signed and notarized on macOS, single installer on Windows**, auto-updates in the background

## Optional
- [Refer a friend](/refer.md): Both sides get one free month of Parrot Pro per successful referral
- [Privacy](/legal/privacy.md): Audio is not retained by default; transcripts encrypted at rest; GDPR-compliant
- [Terms](/legal/terms.md): Standard SaaS terms; cancel anytime; no auto-renewal beyond the billing period
- [Cookies](/legal/cookies.md): Functional cookies only; no third-party trackers
- [Acceptable use](/legal/acceptable-use.md): No covert recording, no recording without consent where required by law
- [Full corpus](/llms-full.txt): Every page above concatenated into a single Markdown file for ingestion