Roar for everyone who types for a living

Forty boxes a day.
Say them.

Slack, email, the doc, the prompt, the PR, the ticket. Every box you type into on your Mac, Roar types for you. Hold a key, talk, let go.

  1. Hold a key
  2. Talk
  3. Let go. It’s typed.

Demonstration: a floating panel shows Roar listening, then a release note is typed into a document page at about 150 words a minute while a counter shows the rate.

In the app you’re in

150wpm
ProductRelease notes, draft

Release notes, draft

The pricing table now shows what each term saves against paying monthly, and the checkout redirect no longer sends slow clients to the login page.

25 words in 10 seconds. Typed, the same words take about 30.

Write at the speed you talk

Downloads Roar for Mac. macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon (M1 and newer). Five dictations to try, no card.

The seven places ↓

The arithmetic

Forty messages a day is an hour of typing. Or twenty minutes of talking.

A message is about fifty words. At fifty words a minute typed, forty of them is an hour. Said, at 150, it's twenty minutes. Watch one of them land both ways.

Demonstration: the same fifty-word paragraph is revealed twice, at about 50 words a minute as typing and about 150 words a minute as talking. Talking finishes at twenty seconds, typing at one minute.

Same paragraph, both ways

1:00.0

Typing

Done at 1:00

Yesterday I shipped the pricing table and fixed the checkout redirect that sent slow clients back to the login page. Today is the annual plan email and the release notes. Nothing is blocking me, but I would like ten minutes with design before the notes go out, because the screenshots still show the old prices.

Talking

Done at 0:20

Yesterday I shipped the pricing table and fixed the checkout redirect that sent slow clients back to the login page. Today is the annual plan email and the release notes. Nothing is blocking me, but I would like ten minutes with design before the notes go out, because the screenshots still show the old prices.

Same update. A third of the time.

Forty minutes a day, back. Two hundred minutes a week. That's the whole afternoon on Friday.

Write at the speed you talk

Mac, Apple silicon. Five dictations to try, no card.

Seven places you type every day

Watch each one land.

Each window below runs once as you reach it, at the speed you talk. The arithmetic under each one is the words counted against a typist at fifty a minute.

  1. 01Slack

    The standup update, said while the coffee pours.

    Three lines, every morning, for the rest of your career. Hold the key, say what you did and what is next, let go. It is in the channel before you sit down.

    Demonstration: a standup update is typed into a chat channel at about 150 words a minute after Roar listens.

    Slack

    150wpm
    product-launch

    Mara Okafor10:42 AM

    Yesterday: shipped the pricing table and fixed the checkout redirect. Today: the annual plan email and the release notes. Nothing blocking me.

    Message #product-launch

    22 words in 8 seconds. Typed, the same words take about 26.

  2. 02Email

    The reply you've been putting off for three days.

    The one you know the answer to and still have not written. Say it the way you would say it on the phone. Roar adds the greeting, the sentences and the sign-off.

    Demonstration: a short reply is typed into an email compose window at about 150 words a minute.

    Email

    150wpm
    New Message

    Todana@northwind.com

    SubjectRe: the draft

    Hi Dana, yes to Thursday at 2. I'll send the revised scope beforehand so we spend the call on the open questions rather than the recap.

    26 words in 10 seconds. Typed, the same words take about 31.

  3. 03Docs and notes

    The spec paragraph, while the idea is still whole.

    Ideas arrive whole and leave in pieces while you type them. Say the paragraph at the speed you thought it. Edit it later, with your hands, if you want.

    Demonstration: a paragraph of a product spec is typed into a document page at about 150 words a minute.

    Docs and notes

    150wpm
    ProductPricing change, spec

    Pricing change, spec

    Annual subscribers keep their current rate until the next renewal. The change applies to new subscriptions from Monday and to monthly plans at their next billing date.

    27 words in 10 seconds. Typed, the same words take about 32.

  4. 04AI prompts

    The prompt with all the context, because saying it is cheap.

    A good prompt is long. Nobody types long. Say the whole brief, the constraints and the tone, and the model gets what it needed the first time.

    Demonstration: a detailed prompt is typed into a chat window at about 150 words a minute.

    AI prompts

    150wpm
    ChatGPTNew chat

    Rewrite this announcement for customers on the annual plan. Keep it under 80 words, lead with the fact that their rate does not change until renewal, and end with where to send questions.

    Message ChatGPT

    33 words in 13 seconds. Typed, the same words take about 40.

  5. 05Code review

    The review comment that explains the why.

    The fix is one line. The reason it matters is three sentences nobody types. Say them, and the next person to touch the file knows what you knew.

    Demonstration: a pull request comment is typed into a code review box at about 150 words a minute.

    Code review

    150wpm
    Fix checkout redirect #412
    WritePreview

    This works, but the redirect fires before the session cookie is written, so a slow client lands on the login page. Move it after the await on line 42 and add the regression test.

    Close pull request

    34 words in 13 seconds. Typed, the same words take about 41.

  6. 06CRM and hiring notes

    The call notes, thirty seconds after the call.

    The notes you write tonight from memory say "good call". The notes you say now, with the candidate still in your head, say what actually happened.

    Demonstration: call notes are typed into a contact record at about 150 words a minute.

    CRM and hiring notes

    150wpm
    Dana WhitfieldSenior engineer · Screening call

    Log a call

    Strong on distributed systems, led the migration off the monolith. Wants remote, open to quarterly travel. Salary band fits. Move to the technical round this week.

    Cancel

    26 words in 10 seconds. Typed, the same words take about 31.

  7. 07Support replies

    The support reply, in the customer's own words.

    Forty tickets is forty small essays. Say each answer as you would say it across a counter. Roar punctuates it; the macros can wait.

    Demonstration: a reply to a customer is typed into a support conversation at about 150 words a minute.

    Support replies

    150wpm
    Ticket #8841Open · 4 min
    Hi, I was charged twice this month and I can only see one invoice. Can you check?

    Sorry about that. I can see the duplicate charge on the 14th and I've refunded it. It will show in three to five days, and the invoice you can see is the correct one.

    34 words in 13 seconds. Typed, the same words take about 41.

Seven boxes. One key. Nothing to learn.

Write at the speed you talk

Mac, Apple silicon. Five dictations to try, no card.

Who this is

If your job is mostly typing what you already know, this page is yours.

Verified in Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Gmail, Clio, Google Docs and Slack. Most text boxes are text boxes; try yours in your first 5 dictations.

  • Product managers
  • Developers
  • Founders
  • Recruiters
  • Sales
  • Support leads
  • Writers
  • Consultants
  • Anyone with forty boxes to fill

Lawyers and journalists have a page of their own, because their day has its own shape.

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Pricing

Download Roar. The first five are on us.

No card. No timer. Say five things, watch them land, and decide with the evidence in front of you.

Write at the speed you talk

Mac, Apple silicon. Five dictations to try, no card.

Your first 5 dictations are free. No card.

Monthly

$12a month

$12 billed monthly. $144 a year.

Cancel any time from inside the app.

Quarterly

$10a month

$30 billed every three months. $120 a year.

$144You save $24 a year

Best value, 33% off

Annual

$8a month

$96 billed once a year.

$144You save $48 a year

Questions

Answered as statements.

Does it work in my app
It's verified in Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Gmail, Clio, Google Docs and Slack. Anything with a text field is worth a try, and where an app refuses direct typing Roar pastes instead and puts your clipboard back. Try yours in your first 5 dictations.
Does it read my screen
No. Roar reads the key you chose as a trigger and, for formatting, the name of the window you're in. It never reads the contents of your screen.
Is my audio kept
No. It's transcribed and discarded. There is no audio store.
Do I have to say the punctuation
No. Roar punctuates from how you spoke. Say the sentence; the full stop is there when it lands.
Is there a Windows version
No, and none is planned.

One more time

Say it.
It’s in the box.

The next message you'd have typed, said instead. Hold the key, talk, let go. Five dictations to see for yourself, no card.

Demonstration: a prompt is typed into a chat window at about 150 words a minute.

Your next sentence

150wpm
ChatGPTNew chat

Summarize this thread in three bullets for someone who missed it, and end with the one decision they need to make today.

Message ChatGPT

  • 3x

    Talking is three times faster than typing.

  • 5

    Your first 5 dictations are free. No card.

  • 0

    Notes that leave your Mac. None, ever.

Write at the speed you talk

Mac, Apple silicon. Five dictations to try, no card.

Roar also has pages for lawyers and journalists