Fully open sourcePowered by Gemini

Intelligent
realtime dictation.

Hold one shortcut, speak naturally, and Quill puts polished text wherever your cursor is. No window. No copy and paste.

In Slack

Hey Sarah, can we move the meeting to Thursday at 3 PM?

Hold to speak
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One gesture, everywhere

Stay in the flow.

Quill is designed as a system capability, not another destination. Your hands and attention never leave the app you’re using.

Shortcut down

Hold

Recording starts in under 150 milliseconds.

While held

Speak

Talk naturally, even with pauses and corrections.

Shortcut up

Done

Polished text lands at your active cursor.

Smart transcription

Speak messily.
Write clearly.

You say

“So, um, can you send that to John? Actually, wait, send it to Alex tomorrow morning.”

Quill types

Can you send that to Alex tomorrow morning?

Removes filler wordsUnderstands correctionsAdds punctuationFormats dates & numbersSupports 85+ languages

Private by default

Your voice leaves no footprint.

Audio is streamed from memory directly to Gemini for transcription, then discarded. Quill stores no recordings or transcript history.

0audio retained
BYOKyour Gemini key
Localowner-only key file

Open source, by design

Your keyboard.
Your key.
Your code.

Inspect it, extend it, or run your own fork. Quill’s macOS client is open source under the Apache 2.0 license with no backend required.

Terminal · zsh
$ git clone https://github.com/skundu42/quill.git
$ cd quill && xcodegen generate

 Quill.xcodeproj is ready.

Less typing. More thinking.

Give your keyboard
a quiet day off.

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