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Keep has voice notes on mobile and nothing on desktop, which is where people plan. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Google Keep accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Google Keep's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.The mobile app records voice notes and transcribes them. The desktop web version has no equivalent — it is a plain note-taking page.
Keep is for the thought you will lose in thirty seconds. On a phone that is covered; at a desk it is not, and the desk is where most of the planning actually happens.
In practice people use it for: Quick captures, checklists, meeting scraps, reminders with context, and the note that becomes a document.
There is no Google Keep extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
Grab the build for your platform and create an account.
Click first. Typally types into Google Keep wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.
Keep's notes are small cards and long text gets truncated in the grid view. Fine for capture, poor for anything you will reread often.
Typally puts a full, comprehensible thought into a Keep note in about ten seconds, which is the gap between a note that still makes sense next week and 'ask Dan about the invoice'. On desktop Keep has no voice feature at all, so this is the only way to capture at speaking speed there.
Halfway through writing a report someone remembers three unrelated things they must not forget. Ten seconds of speech into a Keep note captures all three with enough context to act on, and the report is back underway before the train of thought is lost.
Dictate the whole thought rather than a keyword. 'Ask Dan about the invoice' is useless in a week; the two-sentence version still makes sense.
Keep's notes are small cards and long text gets truncated in the grid view. Fine for capture, poor for anything you will reread often.
On mobile, yes — it records and transcribes. The desktop web version has no voice feature at all.
Yes, though each item needs its own line, so dictate the items and add the list structure afterwards.
The resulting text is ordinary note content, so it syncs like anything else.
Start on the free plan (100 minutes a month, no card). Pro lifts the cap and adds meeting notes for $7.99/month.
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