Penwright
For journalists & long-form writers

Catch the story while it's still moving.

Interview note-taking, off-the-record source recall, first-draft monologues, op-ed dictation, all on-device. Quote integrity preserved. No cloud transcription that doubles as an evidence file.

Penwright for For journalists & long-form writers

Why Penwright fits

Four things that matter for your role.

Quote accuracy preserved

Penwright cleans punctuation and filler. It doesn't paraphrase. What you said is what lands.

    Quote accuracy preserved in Penwright for Mac

    Source protection by design

    Local-first means a court order can't subpoena what we don't have. There's no transcript in our cloud.

      Source protection by design in Penwright for Mac

      Custom dictionary for names

      Add interview subjects, place names, official titles, acronyms once. Penwright spells them right every time.

        Kestral→KestrelLearned
        react→ReactLearned
        post gres→PostgresLearned
        penwright→PenwrightLearned

        Reasoning model when you need it

        For the final pass on a 4,000-word feature, flip cleanup over to Claude with your own key. Warning badge stays visible while active.

          Reasoning model when you need it in Penwright for Mac

          The small stuff that makes voice actually usable.

          Dictionary, snippets, multilingual, all local.

          Personal dictionary

          Add your team's vocabulary once. Penwright gets it right every time after that, codenames, last names, library names, internal acronyms.

          Add: 'Kestrel' • Replace: 'Kestral' with 'Kestrel'

          Voice snippets

          Trigger a saved block of text by saying a phrase. The expanded version comes out polished, and the variables stay yours to fill.

          'sig' → 'Best, Daniel, Penwright founder'

          99 languages

          Whisper transcribes 99 languages, auto-detected while you speak. English and German get first-class cleanup. All of it runs on your Mac.

          EN · DE · ES · FR · PT · JA · ZH · …
          Privacy

          Privacy by architecture, not by policy.

          Penwright does not need your spoken content to provide the product. Audio, transcripts and local indexes stay on your Mac, and you can verify the network traffic yourself.

          Content stays on your Mac

          Dictation, transcripts, meeting audio and local indexes are processed and stored on your machine.

          Included at launch

          Data minimisation by default

          Penwright's servers handle accounts, licences and billing, not the audio or transcripts you create on your Mac.

          Included at launch

          No audio or text upload endpoint

          The Penwright API has no route for your dictation audio or transcripts. A server cannot leak content it never receives.

          Included at launch

          Verify every claim

          Use any network monitor you trust. The security page documents the traffic you should, and should not, see.

          Included at launch
          A day on Penwright

          Three moments where it pays for itself

          • 01

            Walking out of the interview

            Speak the impressions and standout quotes the moment you're alone. Penwright files them straight into the story doc.

          • 02

            Source-protection by being offline

            Field notes that name a confidential source never need to leave the device. No transcript on a third-party server.

          • 03

            Op-ed drafted in one walk

            800 words spoken in 8 minutes turn into a real first draft, cleaned, structured, ready to edit.

          What is typing costing you?

          Drop your numbers in and see what voice gives back.

          h

          Emails, docs, prompts, chats. All of it counts.

          €/h

          If you don't bill hourly, use a fair estimate.

          Monthly savings
          €2,829
          Around 47 hours of writing per month
          Yearly savings
          €33,943
          Penwright Pro is €9.00/month

          Try it with your voice.

          7-day trial, then €9/month. Local, private, in every Mac app.