About QuickSay

Why QuickSay exists

I got tired of paying $15/month to rent software. Not just the money — the principle. You pay forever, and the moment you stop, it's gone. For something I use every single day, that felt wrong.

I looked at the alternatives. Wispr Flow: $180/year. Aqua Voice: $120/year. Good tools, but I'd be paying rent indefinitely for something that should just work. The free options were either inaccurate or came with privacy trade-offs I wasn't comfortable with — screen capture, telemetry, data collection.

So I built QuickSay. You pay once. You own it. No telemetry, no screen capture, no subscription tax. That's the deal.

I use QuickSay to build QuickSay

About 95% of my day-to-day typing goes through QuickSay. Emails, documentation, code comments, commit messages, feature planning — I dictate most of it. When the transcription is off, I feel it immediately. When the AI cleanup gets punctuation wrong, I see it in my own work.

That tight feedback loop made the product better, faster. When you use your own tool every day, you notice the rough edges. You fix them because they annoy you, not because a user filed a ticket.

It also validated the core premise: voice typing isn't just for accessibility or dictating emails. It's legitimately faster for most writing tasks once you trust the transcription quality.

The pricing philosophy

QuickSay is free during the open beta. No credit card required. When the beta ends, it will be a one-time purchase — no subscription.

But here's the thing: QuickSay doesn't host the AI. You bring your own Groq API key. Groq's free tier gives you roughly 8 hours of transcription per day. If you somehow exceed that, their paid tier is a few dollars per month for unlimited. You pay Groq directly. No markup. No middleman tax.

This keeps QuickSay's incentives aligned with yours. I'm not trying to maximize your usage to justify a subscription. I'm trying to build software that works well and stays out of your way. You pay once, I keep improving it, and we both benefit from Groq's competitive pricing.

All updates are free. Check the changelog to see what's shipped. If you bought v1.0, you get v1.4, v2.0, and beyond at no extra cost.

What's next

I'm one person, so updates won't be daily. But I use QuickSay constantly, which means I'm constantly finding small improvements. Faster startup, better dictionary learning, smarter punctuation handling, tighter integrations.

The changelog is the source of truth. If something breaks or you have feedback, email me at [email protected]. I read everything.

QuickSay will stay a one-time purchase. No pivots, no "we're adding a Pro tier," no bait-and-switch. The business model is simple: build something people want, charge a fair price once, keep improving it.