Amical

AI Dictation for Founders

Get investor updates, customer emails, and async leadership out the door faster. The writing tax of running a company is huge — voice cuts it in half.

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Why typing is slowing founders down

Investor updates eat a whole day

The monthly update has to be sharp, transparent, and well-structured — but writing it from scratch takes most of a working day. By the time it ships, you have lost a full block of building or selling.

Customer emails need real care

A short reply burns the relationship; a real reply takes ten minutes of typing. Multiply by twenty customers a week and the inbox starts costing you the time you should be spending on the product itself.

Async leadership is mostly writing

The team needs your direction in writing — in Slack, in Notion, in Linear comments. Each one is short alone but adds up to hours of typing every day that compete directly with shipping and selling work.

A day with Amical

  1. 8 a.m.

    Clear the overnight inbox before the day starts: two investor replies, four customer threads, one board-member intro — all dictated in the time it would take to type the first reply.

  2. 11 a.m.

    Between investor meetings, dictate the monthly update directly into Notion. Numbers, narrative, asks, lowlights, highlights — what would be a half-day write-up lands in under an hour.

  3. 3 p.m.

    Async leadership block: speak through priorities in Slack, leave nuanced Linear comments on three tickets, drop a hiring-rubric edit into Notion — the team is unblocked without a single sync.

  4. Evening

    Quick founder-voice LinkedIn post about today's customer call insight, plus a thoughtful reply to a warm intro email. Both shipped before dinner instead of slipping to tomorrow.

What Amical does for founders

Built for the founder writing load

Investor updates, customer emails, board memos, async leadership notes, fundraise narratives — the writing tax of running a company is brutal and invisible. Dictation cuts it roughly in half, which over a quarter is a whole week of building or selling time you get back.

Faster than typing, sharper than templates

Speed without sounding canned. Voice-first replies sound like you — warm, direct, specific to the person — instead of like a templated SaaS auto-reply. Customers and investors can feel the difference, and it compounds into trust over months of real-feeling communication.

Works wherever you write

Gmail, Outlook, Notion, Slack, Linear, Google Docs, LinkedIn, Twitter — Amical drops into any focused text field at the OS layer. No per-tool integration, no copy-paste step between apps, no breaking the rhythm as you move from inbox to docs to messaging.

What you'd dictate

Investor update intro: solid month, ARR up twenty percent, two key hires.
Reply to the customer asking about SOC 2 — yes, here is the timeline.
Slack to the team: ship the pricing change Tuesday, here is the rollout.

Experience the future of dictation

Local and Cloud Models

Choose from powerful cloud-based AI models or run everything locally for maximum privacy and control. Switch seamlessly between providers to find the perfect balance of speed, accuracy, and security.

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Custom Vocabulary

Customize the AI to recognize your specific terminology, jargon, and proper nouns for industry-specific accuracy and personalized transcription results.

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Custom Shortcuts

Create personalized voice commands and shortcuts to streamline your workflow and boost productivity with hands-free operation.

Multi Language Support

Transcribe and dictate in 100+ languages with native-level accuracy. Switch between languages seamlessly or use mixed-language dictation.

Frequently asked questions

Loved by builders

From San Francisco to Tokyo — what real users are saying about Amical.

ごめん、勝間さん。 ScribesよりAmicalだわ
This is really an amazing app, and I'm super impressed with how smooth it works, and their amazing support. It's just fast and accurate, and it formats the text depending on what application I'm using. This is really my go-to blathering app, and it makes my day so sweet and easy. Read on AppSumo →
【音声入力】 現状Windowsでも使えるおすすめはこの3つ。 ・Amical ・Aqua Voice ・Typeless 個人的には慣れもあるけどAqua Voiceが好き。Typelessは整形キツめなのが難点だけどUIUXが良い。Amicalはローカル完結で無料なのがデカい。 音声入力は移り変わりが激しいので年払いはしない方がいいです。
[Free] Amical for voice input is way too convenient. Reviewing the good and bad of Amical — and walking through installation too.

Translated

有益なアプリをありがとうございます☺️
r/LocalLLMu/todokanai_koi
There's also github.com/amicalhq/amical Switched to it a couple of weeks back, sleek UI and decent feature set. Works offline and on both windows and mac.
Amical - Open-source AI dictation app (@amical_app) Cossmology Profile: dub.sh/Vk7tPkn Key People: Haritabh Singh, Naomi Chopra (@NaomiChopra) #SpeechRecognition #OpenSource #OSS #COSS
ごめん、勝間さん。 ScribesよりAmicalだわ
This is really an amazing app, and I'm super impressed with how smooth it works, and their amazing support. It's just fast and accurate, and it formats the text depending on what application I'm using. This is really my go-to blathering app, and it makes my day so sweet and easy. Read on AppSumo →
【音声入力】 現状Windowsでも使えるおすすめはこの3つ。 ・Amical ・Aqua Voice ・Typeless 個人的には慣れもあるけどAqua Voiceが好き。Typelessは整形キツめなのが難点だけどUIUXが良い。Amicalはローカル完結で無料なのがデカい。 音声入力は移り変わりが激しいので年払いはしない方がいいです。
[Free] Amical for voice input is way too convenient. Reviewing the good and bad of Amical — and walking through installation too.

Translated

有益なアプリをありがとうございます☺️
r/LocalLLMu/todokanai_koi
There's also github.com/amicalhq/amical Switched to it a couple of weeks back, sleek UI and decent feature set. Works offline and on both windows and mac.
Amical - Open-source AI dictation app (@amical_app) Cossmology Profile: dub.sh/Vk7tPkn Key People: Haritabh Singh, Naomi Chopra (@NaomiChopra) #SpeechRecognition #OpenSource #OSS #COSS
ごめん、勝間さん。 ScribesよりAmicalだわ
This is really an amazing app, and I'm super impressed with how smooth it works, and their amazing support. It's just fast and accurate, and it formats the text depending on what application I'm using. This is really my go-to blathering app, and it makes my day so sweet and easy. Read on AppSumo →
【音声入力】 現状Windowsでも使えるおすすめはこの3つ。 ・Amical ・Aqua Voice ・Typeless 個人的には慣れもあるけどAqua Voiceが好き。Typelessは整形キツめなのが難点だけどUIUXが良い。Amicalはローカル完結で無料なのがデカい。 音声入力は移り変わりが激しいので年払いはしない方がいいです。
[Free] Amical for voice input is way too convenient. Reviewing the good and bad of Amical — and walking through installation too.

Translated

有益なアプリをありがとうございます☺️
r/LocalLLMu/todokanai_koi
There's also github.com/amicalhq/amical Switched to it a couple of weeks back, sleek UI and decent feature set. Works offline and on both windows and mac.
Amical - Open-source AI dictation app (@amical_app) Cossmology Profile: dub.sh/Vk7tPkn Key People: Haritabh Singh, Naomi Chopra (@NaomiChopra) #SpeechRecognition #OpenSource #OSS #COSS
ごめん、勝間さん。 ScribesよりAmicalだわ
This is really an amazing app, and I'm super impressed with how smooth it works, and their amazing support. It's just fast and accurate, and it formats the text depending on what application I'm using. This is really my go-to blathering app, and it makes my day so sweet and easy. Read on AppSumo →
【音声入力】 現状Windowsでも使えるおすすめはこの3つ。 ・Amical ・Aqua Voice ・Typeless 個人的には慣れもあるけどAqua Voiceが好き。Typelessは整形キツめなのが難点だけどUIUXが良い。Amicalはローカル完結で無料なのがデカい。 音声入力は移り変わりが激しいので年払いはしない方がいいです。
[Free] Amical for voice input is way too convenient. Reviewing the good and bad of Amical — and walking through installation too.

Translated

有益なアプリをありがとうございます☺️
r/LocalLLMu/todokanai_koi
There's also github.com/amicalhq/amical Switched to it a couple of weeks back, sleek UI and decent feature set. Works offline and on both windows and mac.
Amical - Open-source AI dictation app (@amical_app) Cossmology Profile: dub.sh/Vk7tPkn Key People: Haritabh Singh, Naomi Chopra (@NaomiChopra) #SpeechRecognition #OpenSource #OSS #COSS
Not sure why nobody's talking about it, but there's a free AI voice input app that's incredibly usable. It's called Amical — I use it daily.

Translated

tried amical (free & open source) alternative to whispr flow, aquavoice because they both charged me over $10 and the fact that it lets me run everything locally so nothing leaves my machine is crazyyy🤯
r/macappsu/IAM-rooted
nice comparison. been using amical lately and surprised it's not mentioned more. it's open source, runs locally or with cloud models, and actually formats stuff based on what app you're in. feels way more usable than just whisper or vosk on their own.
I was using VoiceDash, currently I'm using Blip AI, and now I'm testing Amical. So far, Amical is really, really good in recognizing my language and fantastic in recognizing the English language. I'm really impressed in this short period of time of using it. Read on AppSumo →
Amical for voice input is great — runs locally so it's super fast. I was on Aqua Voice but the 0.5s lag between speaking and seeing text was stressful every time. Local model accuracy is slightly lower but well within acceptable.

Translated

🎊 Big news! Amical @amical_app reached 1,000 stars on GitHub! High five! 🙌 Type 10x faster with AI-powered voice dictation openalternative.co/amical
Not sure why nobody's talking about it, but there's a free AI voice input app that's incredibly usable. It's called Amical — I use it daily.

Translated

tried amical (free & open source) alternative to whispr flow, aquavoice because they both charged me over $10 and the fact that it lets me run everything locally so nothing leaves my machine is crazyyy🤯
r/macappsu/IAM-rooted
nice comparison. been using amical lately and surprised it's not mentioned more. it's open source, runs locally or with cloud models, and actually formats stuff based on what app you're in. feels way more usable than just whisper or vosk on their own.
I was using VoiceDash, currently I'm using Blip AI, and now I'm testing Amical. So far, Amical is really, really good in recognizing my language and fantastic in recognizing the English language. I'm really impressed in this short period of time of using it. Read on AppSumo →
Amical for voice input is great — runs locally so it's super fast. I was on Aqua Voice but the 0.5s lag between speaking and seeing text was stressful every time. Local model accuracy is slightly lower but well within acceptable.

Translated

🎊 Big news! Amical @amical_app reached 1,000 stars on GitHub! High five! 🙌 Type 10x faster with AI-powered voice dictation openalternative.co/amical
Not sure why nobody's talking about it, but there's a free AI voice input app that's incredibly usable. It's called Amical — I use it daily.

Translated

tried amical (free & open source) alternative to whispr flow, aquavoice because they both charged me over $10 and the fact that it lets me run everything locally so nothing leaves my machine is crazyyy🤯
r/macappsu/IAM-rooted
nice comparison. been using amical lately and surprised it's not mentioned more. it's open source, runs locally or with cloud models, and actually formats stuff based on what app you're in. feels way more usable than just whisper or vosk on their own.
I was using VoiceDash, currently I'm using Blip AI, and now I'm testing Amical. So far, Amical is really, really good in recognizing my language and fantastic in recognizing the English language. I'm really impressed in this short period of time of using it. Read on AppSumo →
Amical for voice input is great — runs locally so it's super fast. I was on Aqua Voice but the 0.5s lag between speaking and seeing text was stressful every time. Local model accuracy is slightly lower but well within acceptable.

Translated

🎊 Big news! Amical @amical_app reached 1,000 stars on GitHub! High five! 🙌 Type 10x faster with AI-powered voice dictation openalternative.co/amical
Not sure why nobody's talking about it, but there's a free AI voice input app that's incredibly usable. It's called Amical — I use it daily.

Translated

tried amical (free & open source) alternative to whispr flow, aquavoice because they both charged me over $10 and the fact that it lets me run everything locally so nothing leaves my machine is crazyyy🤯
r/macappsu/IAM-rooted
nice comparison. been using amical lately and surprised it's not mentioned more. it's open source, runs locally or with cloud models, and actually formats stuff based on what app you're in. feels way more usable than just whisper or vosk on their own.
I was using VoiceDash, currently I'm using Blip AI, and now I'm testing Amical. So far, Amical is really, really good in recognizing my language and fantastic in recognizing the English language. I'm really impressed in this short period of time of using it. Read on AppSumo →
Amical for voice input is great — runs locally so it's super fast. I was on Aqua Voice but the 0.5s lag between speaking and seeing text was stressful every time. Local model accuracy is slightly lower but well within acceptable.

Translated

🎊 Big news! Amical @amical_app reached 1,000 stars on GitHub! High five! 🙌 Type 10x faster with AI-powered voice dictation openalternative.co/amical

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