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Monologue pricing: the free trial, Pro, and the Every bundle

By Ryleigh Newman · Published October 5, 2026

Monologue pricing starts with a free trial of 1,000 dictation words and 10 recorded notes, and Monologue Pro costs $15 a month, or $144 a year billed annually, which Monologue shows as $12 a month, on monologue.to as of October 5, 2026. Pro is also included in the Every bundle, Every's own subscription at $30 a month or $288 a year, which adds Every's other apps and its writing. There is no ongoing free plan: once the trial is used up, unlimited dictation is Pro.

I built YapToText, a free dictation app that runs on the Mac, so read the last sections with that in mind. Everything about Monologue here comes from monologue.to, its help center and every.to, read on October 5, 2026, and each source is listed at the end of the page.

Download for free. No account, nothing locked, macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon. Source on GitHub.

Steps

1. Install YapToText from the Mac App Store and open it.
2. On the permissions page of the tour, press Continue next to Microphone and next to Accessibility, and switch YapToText on in System Settings.
3. Quit Monologue, keep Right Command or choose Hold to talk, and dictate one sentence into a text field.
4. Select the text, tap Right Option, say make it sound more formal, and tap Right Option again.

Every Monologue plan and price

Checked October 5, 2026, on monologue.to, help.monologue.to and every.to. Prices are in US dollars. Prices change, so check before you buy.

One Pro subscription covers Monologue on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Windows and Android are on a waitlist. Monologue sells one Pro, by the month or by the year, and Every sells it again inside a bigger bundle.

The pricing page I read lists no team plan. Monologue's docs do describe an Enterprise API, in private beta, for approved organizations only, with credentials set up by Monologue during onboarding. That is not something you can buy from the pricing page.

What the free trial includes

Monologue's free start is a trial, counted in words, not a plan that renews. The trial is generous with features and small on volume: 1,000 words is a few long emails. Here is what it covers, per Monologue's own pages:

• 1,000 dictation words. Dictation into any app, with Monologue's default of holding the right-side Option key while you talk.
• 10 recorded notes. Notes record your microphone, and on a Mac the system audio too, so a meeting can be captured without a bot.
• Offline transcription. Monologue's help center says a local model, downloaded in Settings, General, Local model, transcribes without an internet connection on Apple silicon Macs. Smart formatting and syncing still need a connection, and without one you get the raw transcript.
• Context-aware formatting. Text formatted for the app you are in.
• More than 100 languages.

You create an account or sign in on first launch. To be fair to Monologue on privacy, its data privacy page says it does not save dictation audio or transcripts on its servers, and that its AI providers process dictation with zero data retention. Recorded notes are different: their audio, transcript and summary are stored in your account so they sync between devices.

What Pro adds

Pro removes the counts. Everything the trial does, Pro does without a word or note limit. According to monologue.to, Pro adds:

• Unlimited dictation. No word count.
• Unlimited recorded notes. No cap at ten.
• Bot-free meeting notes. Recorded on your Mac, then transcribed and summarized.
• Every Apple device. Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch on one subscription.

Around that sit features Monologue describes for the app as a whole: mono-1, its own dictation model; Deep Context, which uses what is on screen when you grant the optional Screen Recording permission; a personal dictionary saved as you go; and modes that switch by app. Monologue says mono-1 needed about 55% fewer estimated edits than its previous API-based pipeline. That is its own measurement, and I have not repeated it.

Pro monthly, Pro yearly or the Every bundle

All three routes give you the same Monologue. What changes is how long you commit, and whether you want Every's other apps and writing too.

Worked out from monologue.to and every.to prices, checked October 5, 2026, before any tax.

The Every bundle costs exactly twice Monologue Pro on both billing cycles. The bundle is only the better buy if you would also use Cora, Sparkle, Spiral or Every's writing. If you already pay for Monologue and change your mind, Monologue's help center says you can start the upgrade from the Mac app, in Settings, Plan & Billing, with Upgrade to Every, and that your existing payment should be applied toward it, with your settings kept.

Climb this ladder, smallest commitment first:

1. The free trial. 1,000 words and 10 notes, to hear how mono-1 handles your voice.
2. Pro, monthly. $15 a month, if you might stop within a year.
3. Pro, yearly. $144 a year, if Monologue is your daily dictation app.
4. The Every bundle. $30 a month or $288 a year, if you want Every's other apps as well.

How it compares, and where Monologue is the better buy

Monologue Pro lands at the same monthly price as Wispr Flow Pro. The real differences are the free start, the devices and where the speech is processed.

Checked October 5, 2026, on monologue.to, typeless.com and wisprflow.ai; Wispr Flow's privacy page read October 3, 2026. Prices change, so check before you buy.

Billed yearly, Monologue, Wispr Flow and Typeless all come to about $12 a month; only the free start differs much. The Wispr Flow pricing page lists every Wispr plan, the Typeless alternative page covers Typeless, and the roundup of AI dictation apps ranks ten of them.

Monologue is a polished app, and for some people it is worth $15 a month. If you dictate across Apple devices or want meeting notes without a bot, Monologue covers ground YapToText does not. It is the better choice if you need any of these:

• iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. One subscription covers all of them. YapToText is a Mac app only.
• Meeting notes. Microphone and system audio together, with no bot in the call, transcribed and summarized. YapToText does not record meetings.
• Many languages. More than 100. YapToText lists 29 plus auto-detect.
• Screen context. Deep Context uses what is on screen. YapToText reads the words around your cursor, and your selection or clipboard when a mode asks.
• You already pay for Every. Then Pro costs you nothing extra, so try it first.

The free Monologue alternative page compares the two apps feature by feature.

Where a free on-device app fits

YapToText is free with no trial, no account and no word count. Tips are optional and add no features. Its speech model and its cleanup model both run on your Mac, so formatting works on a plane too, and the only network use is a model download you start yourself. What Monologue counts in the trial, YapToText never counts at all.

• Formatting by app. Auto mode, on by default, reads each dictation on the Mac: a letter becomes an email, a short chat stays as spoken, and Mail, Slack and code editors each lean their own way. The Auto mode guide lists every app.
• Editing by voice. Quick Edit: select text, tap Right Option, say the change, and tap again. The Quick Edit guide has examples.
• Recordings you already have. The Transcribe a file card on the Utility page returns plain text, on the Mac. The file transcription guide walks through it.
• Offline from the first launch. The App Store build ships both models. The offline dictation guide shows how to test that with Wi-Fi off.

The trade is real. It runs only on an Apple silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later, the download is about 2.9 GB, it lists 29 languages plus auto-detect, and there is no iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch app, no sync and no meeting recording. My hands make typing difficult, so I dictate every day, and I wanted dictation I would never have to ration.

Try the free route in ten minutes

If your Monologue trial is running low, it costs nothing to try YapToText on the same Mac. One thing matters more than usual: Monologue's dictation key is Right Option, and that is also YapToText's Quick Edit key. Quit Monologue before you test, so only one app answers Right Option.

Step 1: Install from the App Store

• You: Get YapToText from the Mac App Store and open it.
• YapToText: Starts a short welcome tour. Both models are inside, so there is nothing else to download.
• Check: The tour reaches a page titled A couple of permissions.

Step 2: Grant Microphone and Accessibility

• You: Press Continue next to Microphone, then next to Accessibility.
• macOS: Asks once for the microphone, then opens System Settings, Privacy & Security, Accessibility, where you switch YapToText on yourself.
• Check: Both cards read Granted. Without Accessibility, dictations go to the clipboard instead of your cursor.

Step 3: Quit Monologue and dictate once

• You: Quit Monologue. On the tour's Your controls page, keep Right Command, or choose Hold to talk if your hands learned Monologue's hold. Click into a text field, start a dictation, talk, and finish it.
• YapToText: Shows your voice as a wave and your words as they form, then types the finished text at your cursor.
• Check: The words land where your cursor was. If the wave stays flat, the app is not hearing your microphone yet.

Step 4: Edit a selection by voice

Say: Select a sentence you just dictated, tap Right Option, say this, and tap Right Option again.

make it sound more formal

What happens: The Quick Edit card listens, applies the edit on your Mac and says Done, and your selection is replaced.

If you want Right Option for dictation, move Quick Edit first: its key lives in the Key card on the Quick Edit page. The keys and shortcuts guide lists every key that can start a dictation, and the first dictation guide covers the floating panel.

What each one cannot do

Each app is honest about a different trade. Monologue spans your Apple devices for a fee; YapToText stays on one Mac for free.

Monologue

• A lasting free plan. The trial is 1,000 words and 10 notes; after that, unlimited use is Pro.
• Formatting offline. The local model transcribes without internet, but smart formatting and syncing need a connection.
• Windows and Android. Both are on a waitlist.
• A team plan. None on the pricing page; the Enterprise API is a private beta.
• Skipping the account. You sign in on first launch.

YapToText

• Other devices. Mac only, with no iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch app and no sync.
• Intel or older Macs. It needs Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later.
• Meetings. No meeting recording, speaker labels or summaries.
• Languages. 29 plus auto-detect, against Monologue's more than 100.

The short version

• Free trial. 1,000 dictation words and 10 recorded notes, with an account.
• Pro. $15 a month, or $144 a year, for unlimited dictation and notes on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
• Every bundle. $30 a month or $288 a year: Monologue Pro plus Cora, Sparkle, Spiral and Every's writing.
• The free alternative. YapToText, on one Apple silicon Mac, with no trial, no account and cleanup that works offline.

Monologue charges for unlimited use across Apple devices; YapToText charges nothing and stays on one Mac.

If a price or plan here no longer matches Monologue's site, open an issue on GitHub and I will fix it. Every one gets read.

Download for free. No account, nothing locked, macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon. Source on GitHub.

About the author. Ryleigh Newman is a developer whose hands make typing difficult and who dictates every day with YapToText, the app this site describes. Facts about other apps come from their own sites, with the date they were read. More about the project.

Related

• A free Monologue alternative that keeps dictation and cleanup on your Mac
• The best AI dictation apps for Mac in October 2026, ranked by where the AI runs
• Wispr Flow pricing: what the free plan allows and what Pro adds
• superwhisper vs Wispr Flow vs MacWhisper vs VoiceInk, plus a free one
• A free Typeless alternative that keeps your voice on your Mac
• Typeless pricing: what the free plan allows, and what Pro and Enterprise add

Sources

• https://www.monologue.to/pricing (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://www.monologue.to/ (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://www.monologue.to/data-privacy (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://www.monologue.to/docs/enterprise-api (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://www.monologue.to/blog/introducing-mono-1 (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://www.monologue.to/waitlist (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://www.monologue.to/docs/getting-started/mac (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://www.monologue.to/docs/getting-started/first-dictation (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://www.monologue.to/docs/dictation/languages-and-models (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://www.monologue.to/docs/account-and-privacy/account-and-billing (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://every.to/pricing (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://every.to/faq (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://every.to/on-every/introducing-monologue-effortless-voice-dictation (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://wisprflow.ai/pricing (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://wisprflow.ai/privacy (checked 2026-10-03)
• https://www.typeless.com/help/faqs (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://www.typeless.com/pricing (checked 2026-10-05)
• https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yaptotext/id6786382289 (checked 2026-10-03)
• https://github.com/ryleighnewman/YapToText (checked 2026-10-03)

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