Dictate in any app · Clinical
TherapyNotes structures the note, and the narrative sections are still typed by a tired clinician. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere TherapyNotes accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where TherapyNotes has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.Structured note formats and templates. No dictation feature of its own.
Structured fields speed up the checkbox half of a note. The clinical narrative — what the client said, what you observed, what you did about it — is unavoidably prose, and it is the half that matters in an audit.
In practice people use it for: Progress note narratives, treatment plan goals, discharge summaries, and practice administration.
Setup happens once, outside TherapyNotes, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Grab the build for your platform and create an account.
Text goes wherever TherapyNotes has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Typally is not HIPAA-certified and sends audio to a third-party service. It is not an appropriate tool for anything containing client information.
Typally is for the professional writing around your practice — workshop material, continuing-education notes, referral emails, website copy — none of which contains client information. It is not HIPAA-certified and audio is transcribed by a third party, so progress notes and treatment plans need a tool covered by a business associate agreement.
A clinician preparing a workshop on adolescent anxiety dictates the outline and handouts across two evenings. It is professional writing with no client in it, which is the line that decides which tool is appropriate.
Say the note the way you would present the client in supervision. That framing produces the specificity notes need and typing tends to flatten.
Typally is not HIPAA-certified and sends audio to a third-party service. It is not an appropriate tool for anything containing client information.
No. Client documentation requires a HIPAA-covered tool with a business associate agreement in place. Typally has neither.
No. It provides structured templates rather than speech input.
Non-clinical writing: your practice website, blog posts, referral partner emails, and continuing-education notes with no client details.
There is a permanent free tier of 100 minutes a month. Pro costs $7.99/month and raises the limit.
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