For novelists and long-form authors
Write your book by talking.
Speak anywhere. ORAT turns your words into organized manuscript prose — without inventing the book for you.
A novel is about 80,000 words — around 20 hours of talking, spread across stolen minutes.
Founding membership is limited to the first 100 writers
No card required. The free plan records, shapes, saves, and exports your work.
Messy spoken thought becomes clean prose.
What you said
Um okay so she walks into the room and she's like really nervous right because she hasn't seen him in like ten years no wait eleven years and and the whole place smells like that cologne he used to wear you know the one she sees him standing over by the window and he hasn't noticed her yet.
What ORAT shapes
Okay, so she walks into the room, and she's really nervous, because she hasn't seen him in eleven years. The whole place smells like that cologne he used to wear.
She sees him standing over by the window, and he hasn't noticed her yet.
A real manuscript studio, not a text box.
Sessions belong to projects and chapters, so spoken material can keep becoming a manuscript instead of disappearing into a list of voice notes.
Writer control, at every level
Your meaning stays fixed. You choose how much shaping happens.
Keep It Close corrects mechanics. Clean It Up removes “um,” “uh,” repeated conjunctions, and false starts. Help Me Shape It may recast awkward sentences and compress repetition, but it may not invent facts, scenes, actions, images, emotions, or motives.
How it works
- Speak. Hit record and talk.
- Shape. ORAT cleans up what you said.
- Save. Pages land in your manuscript.
Safely parked. On a walk. At 2 a.m. Stolen minutes become pages, pages become chapters, chapters become a book.
Meet Reginald - your in-app writing coach.
He tracks your progress, keeps momentum warm, and offers light notes between sessions. No grades, no pressure, just a nudge to keep going.
A clear boundary
ORAT is not a meeting transcription tool, a generic dictation app, or an AI that writes your book for you. It is a writing studio for authors who want to speak their manuscript and keep their voice.
Questions, answered.
What is ORAT?
ORAT is a manuscript-first writing studio. You speak into a project — a novel, memoir, essay, or script — and ORAT shapes each session into clean prose that becomes part of a growing chapter.
Does ORAT write for me?
No. You choose the distance. Keep It Close formats lightly; Clean It Up removes filler and false starts without changing meaning; Help Me Shape It may recast sentences more generously but may not invent facts, scenes, actions, images, emotions, or motives.
How is ORAT different from voice-note apps?
Voice-note tools turn one memo into one polished note. ORAT is organized around projects, sessions, and chapters — sessions build on each other into a manuscript you can export.
Can I write a novel by speaking?
Yes. A novel is roughly 80,000 words — about 20 hours of talking, spread across stolen minutes. ORAT keeps the project together so it adds up to a book.
Can I use ORAT on my phone?
Yes. ORAT is mobile-first. Record on a walk, as a passenger, or while safely parked, then review from any device.
Do I have to learn voice commands?
No. You can record naturally and use the on-screen controls. Optional “Hey Reggie” commands help while your hands are busy — start with “Hey Reggie, new chapter” or “Hey Reggie, scratch that,” then use others only when they are useful.
Is my unpublished work safe?
Your writing remains yours. Raw audio is automatically deleted after 45 days, we never sell your data, and you can export your work at any time.
Will ORAT understand a long manuscript?
ORAT is organized around projects, chapters, and sessions so a book can grow over time. Pro adds continuity checks across chapters and deeper Reginald review for long manuscripts.
What is free?
The whole loop: record, transcribe, shape into prose, save into a project, and export to TXT or Markdown, with 3 hours of recording and upload transcription each month. Pro adds 20 hours, advanced exports such as DOCX and EPUB, continuity checks, and Dropbox backup.
See our plain-English data page for details.