Questions, answered.

You press a shortcut and speak. Rubil turns what you said into text, takes out the ums and false starts, adds punctuation, and puts it in the field you were typing in.

Rubil removes fillers and words you started over, and adds punctuation. Every other word stays. Turn on Keep my exact words to get every word as Rubil heard it.

Rubil works in the apps you type in. If it can't paste, your text waits in Rubil and stays on your clipboard, so you can paste it yourself.

Usually macOS has turned off Rubil's Accessibility permission. Here's how to fix it.

Rubil holds what you said and shows Retry.

Up to 15 minutes in one take. You can pause to think, and Rubil keeps listening until you stop.

You can start and stop a take either way. With the keyboard, tap Right Option or press Option and Space. With the mouse, click the Rubil pill, then click Stop. Two system permissions need a click during setup.

Yes. Tap Right Option or press Option and Space to start and stop, click the Rubil pill, or set a shortcut you choose. If a shortcut is already taken, Rubil tells you and keeps your old one.

Rubil has an Atkinson font option that keeps similar letters apart, and wider letter spacing.

Mac and Windows as desktop apps, and Chrome as an extension. One account covers all three. iPhone and Android are on the way.

Yes, a free one. You sign in with Google.

Rubil tells you before you start a new take. Your words come back as each day drops out of the rolling seven days, or you can switch to Pro.

On your computer, encrypted. You can search them, delete one, or clear them all. History is never sent to our servers.

To turn speech into text, your audio goes to our speech provider, and the text goes to be formatted. The privacy page names each service.

Rubil sends usage counts, like how many words you dictated. It never sends your words. You can turn usage counts off in Settings.

No. Rubil never asks about your health.

We haven't tested it with VoiceOver or any screen reader yet, so we don't claim it does. What we know.

For stuttering, Rubil takes out repeated sounds and words, and a pause doesn't end the take. If you stutter and would be kind enough to help us test Rubil, we'd be grateful. Write to [email protected] and tell us how it goes for you. We make no claim for other speech patterns, such as dysarthria. Research on the kind of speech recognition Rubil uses shows many more errors with them.

No. Rubil is a typing tool. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything.

Free for 1,000 words a week. Pro is $7 a month or $59 a year for unlimited words.

Yes, any time in Settings. You keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for.

Yes. Write within 30 days of a charge for a full refund.

Bernard Moussa, who started it for a personal reason. Read why.