Content stays on your Mac
Dictation, transcripts, meeting audio and local indexes are processed and stored on your machine.
Included at launchWhy it works
The first draft of a document is the slowest part. Penwright lets you talk it out, start to finish, and have the cleaned version land in the doc, ready to edit. Faster than typing, less painful than dictation tools that need you to say "comma."
You say
in this proposal we lay out the three things we want to ship in q3 a new pricing page a redesigned onboarding and a self serve trial
Penwright writes
This proposal lays out the three things we want to ship in Q3: 1. A new pricing page 2. A redesigned onboarding flow 3. A self-serve trial
In the wild
Three moments in Google Docs where Penwright pays for itself.
The quick one
Click into a Google Docs text field, hit the hotkey, speak. The clean text is in before you would have typed it.
The long one
Three minutes of speaking become structured text with paragraphs and punctuation. No typing cramp, no reformatting.
The recurring one
Standard replies live as snippets and expand from a spoken trigger. The dictionary keeps names, companies and acronyms spelled right.
Day one: setting Penwright up for Google Docs.
- Install Penwright
Grab the .dmg from the download page, drop it in Applications, open.
- Pick your hotkey
Default is ⌘⇧Space. If Spotlight is in the way, set a conflict-free shortcut right away.
- Seed your dictionary
Drop in the names, companies and codenames you use every day. Penwright will get them right from day one.
- Dictate your first Google Docs message
Open Google Docs, click into a text field, hold the hotkey, speak. Release. The cleaned version lands in the field.
Frequently asked
- Does Penwright work in Google Docs?
- Yes. Penwright types wherever your cursor lands in a text field, including Google Docs. There's no separate Google Docs integration; Penwright uses macOS' standard text insertion.
- Are my Google Docs messages sent to the cloud?
- No. Transcription and cleanup run locally on your Mac, Metal-accelerated. If you add your own Claude or OpenAI key in Settings, then yes, but only when you explicitly activate it, and a visible CLOUD badge stays on while it is.
- Does Penwright understand Google Docs-specific jargon?
- Decent out of the box, perfect with your own dictionary. Add company names, people names, codenames once in Settings. Penwright will type them correctly into Google Docs from that moment on.
- Do I need a fast internet connection?
- No. Once the models are installed, Penwright works offline. Ideal for travel, airports, long calls.
In Google Docs, typing is the real tax.
Three to four times faster with voice. The math gets uncomfortable fast.
Typing40WPM
Average typing speed for a confident keyboard user.
Voice with Penwright150WPM
Sustainable speech rate. No cloud round-trip.
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.
Data minimisation by default
Penwright's servers handle accounts, licences and billing, not the audio or transcripts you create on your Mac.
Included at launchNo 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 launchVerify every claim
Use any network monitor you trust. The security page documents the traffic you should, and should not, see.
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