PilcrowTalking to a coding agent
Claude Code, Cursor, Codex. The prompt that works is long, rambling and full of context — and it is faster to say than to type.
Terminals and Electron editors hand macOS nothing useful about what is focused. Pilcrow pastes into them anyway.
The reply you keep putting off
Three sentences in Slack or Mail that have been sitting there an hour, because starting them costs more than finishing them.
Tap, say it, it lands in the composer. No window opens, so you never leave the thread you were reading.
A first draft you already know
You can explain the thing out loud without stopping. Writing it down is where it stalls.
Dictation runs as long as you keep talking, and the text arrives whole rather than assembling itself a word at a time in front of you.
Search boxes and address bars
A query is the shortest thing you type all day and the most annoying to get right on a laptop keyboard.
Apple’s own Dictation covers general text on-device but not search fields — those go to Siri servers. Pilcrow has no servers to send them to.
Notes before they evaporate
Something worth keeping arrives while your hands are busy, and the twenty seconds of typing is exactly twenty seconds too many.
One key, from anywhere, into whatever is already open — Notes, Obsidian, Reminders, a scratch file.
When typing is the painful part
A wrist in a splint. A hand that aches by mid-afternoon. An arm holding a sleeping child.
The trigger is a single tap on a key you already rest a finger on, and it works in every field rather than a supported handful.
Price
Nothing here is metered.
There is no paid tier, so there is nothing to count against you. No word allowance, no trial that expires, no feature that switches off later, and no account to hold any of it.
Free is a decision that has to survive, not a launch price. How Pilcrow stays free explains what pays for it and what happens if that stops being true.