Talk the messy version.
Pace around, talk it through, get a first draft out while the thought is still fresh. Edit a real piece instead of a blank page.
Epilude turns spoken ideas into publish-ready posts, captions, scripts, show notes, and chapters, inside every writing app on your Mac.
Free for 14 days or 1,000 words, no credit card required.
The quiet case for shipping ugly
Talk the rough draft. Auto-Edit makes it publish-ready.
Most of what a creator means to write never survives the trip from their head to the keyboard. The idea is fully formed; what lands on the page is the compressed version your fingers could keep up with. First drafts get put off. Newsletters slip a week. The blank page is mostly a typing problem dressed up as a creative one, a friction that has nothing to do with whether the writer has anything to say.
Pace around, talk it through, get a first draft out while the thought is still fresh. Edit a real piece instead of a blank page.
So basically the thing nobody tells you about like going freelance is that you know your calendar kind of becomes your whole personality.
Tone Match keeps your phrasing intact. AI Smart Edits clears the filler without ironing your voice out.
Works in every app you publish to.
Works in Substack, Medium, Ghost, Google Docs, Notion, iA Writer, Ulysses, and any other text box on your Mac.
Move between languages inside a single sentence. Useful for bilingual creators, scripts with foreign-language quotes, and translated drafts. 30+ languages.
Writing something personal? Turn on Local Mode and your voice never leaves your Mac, so a private essay or an unpublished draft stays yours alone.
Epilude lives inside the apps where your audience is — the post lands in the editor you publish from.
…and every other app you write in on your Mac. In any app you already write in, on your Mac.
I used to sit on a post for a week, polishing sentences nobody asked me to polish. Here's what changed when I started publishing the version that was good enough on Tuesday instead of the perfect one that never shipped: the readers showed up for the
“Post: three things nobody tells you about running a newsletter from a kitchen table. Section one, the best paragraphs happen between the first coffee and the second. Section two, the worst happen at the end of the day. Section three, you’ll start replying to comments out loud.”
Epilude suits writers and creators: speak a draft and get publish-ready text in any writing app on your Mac, with cleanup and Tone Match applied as you talk. It removes the friction between an idea and a finished post, caption, or script.
Yes. Epilude is built for long-form drafting: hold a hotkey, talk through the piece, and clean text lands in your editor. Many writers dictate several times faster than they type.
Free for 14 days or 1,000 words. No credit card required. Works in every writing app on your Mac.