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Instagram captions are written on a phone by habit, but they are far easier to dictate on a desktop. Typally types what you say straight into Instagram — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Instagram lets you type.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Instagram's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.Nothing on the web version. The mobile app relies on the phone keyboard's microphone.
Captions carry most of the work on Instagram now, and long captions perform. Typing a two-hundred-word caption with thumbs is miserable, which is why so many captions are three words and an emoji.
In practice people use it for: Captions, replies to comments, DMs, and the story text that needs to say something specific.
There is no Instagram extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.
Click first. Typally types into Instagram wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Instagram's web composer handles line breaks awkwardly. Dictate the text, then add spacing manually before posting.
Typally types into the web composer, so a two-hundred-word caption is spoken rather than thumbed. The cleanup pass removes the spoken filler that makes dictated captions obvious. Add the line breaks by hand afterwards — Instagram's web composer handles spacing unpredictably.
A small bakery owner sits down once a week and talks through seven captions in eleven minutes — what is baking, why the sourdough changed, what is sold out. The captions read like the person who runs the shop, because they are what she actually said.
Say the caption as a story out loud, then cut it down. The spoken version has a natural first line, which is the part that decides whether anyone reads the rest.
Instagram's web composer handles line breaks awkwardly. Dictate the text, then add spacing manually before posting.
Yes, through the web version, which is where dictation helps most — no thumbs involved.
Not on the web. On mobile it is the phone keyboard's microphone, not an Instagram feature.
Yes. The reply box is a normal text field on the web version.
Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.
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