Everything Latch does45 features, all of them on the free plan.

• One chord, tap or hold

  Tap Ctrl+Win to latch recording on and tap it again to stop, or hold it while you talk and let go to paste. One chord, no setting. A take can run up to 10 minutes of recorded time.

• Pastes in any app

  Mail, chat, a document, a browser form, an editor, a terminal: any Windows app with a text cursor. Latch pastes where the cursor already is, then puts your clipboard back. In a terminal it only pastes and never presses Enter.

• Clean text, not a transcript

  Ums, false starts and “no wait” corrections are gone, sentences are punctuated, numbers come out as numbers, and names stay as you said them. Your meaning and your tone stay yours.

• Spoken text commands

  Say “new paragraph”, “new line” or name a punctuation mark and Latch applies it instead of typing the words. The command words disappear and only their effect remains.

• Any language, take by take

  The speech language is detected on every take. Answer in Italian, then in English, without touching a setting.

• It fits the cursor

  The text joins what is already in the field: lowercase in the middle of a sentence, a capital after a full stop, and a space added or left out so it sits right against the words around it. This uses the text around the cursor, so it stops if you switch that off.

• Seven built-in styles

  Curated, Formal, Email, Chat, AI prompt, Technical and Social post. Pick one on the bar and it applies to every take. AI prompt puts the goal first, one requirement per line. Technical is for commit messages, tickets and comments, with identifiers as typed.

• Your own styles

  Write a prompt once in Settings, name it, and it joins the Style list on the bar. Styles and languages share a limit of 24, and the built-in styles do not count against it.

• Name a style out loud

  Order one in the take, on Auto or No style: “make it formal: …”, “write it as an email: …”. The order words never end up in the text, and a sentence that merely mentions an email is written as said.

• Auto picks a light style

  On Auto, which is where the bar starts, Latch may pick Formal, Email, Chat, AI prompt, Technical or Social post by itself from where you are typing. It polishes and does not rewrite, keeps short replies plain, and tells you which style it used (“Pasted as Email”). Choose No style on the bar when you want the plain cleanup only.

• Shaped, with No style

  Even with no style, a take that is clearly an email gets its greeting and sign-off on their own lines, and a technical instruction gets its identifiers written as typed (“users dot ts” becomes users.ts). The words and the register stay yours.

• You stay in charge

  A style you pick on the bar wins over one you speak, and one you speak wins over Auto's choice. Text already in the field, the window title and the app never order a style or a translation.

• A Translate row on the bar

  Pick a language and every take is translated into it. Add the languages you use in Settings; English is there from the start. The first entry, Auto, translates only when you ask for it out loud.

• Ask for it with your voice

  On Auto, say “translate to French: …” or “…, traducilo in tedesco” and Latch translates into any language, saved or not. The order words, and the fillers around them, are never written, not even translated.

• A style, then a translation

  Combine them in one take: pick Formal and English on the bar, or say “make it formal and translate it to English”. The style is applied first and the styled text is translated. A sentence that only talks about translating is written as said.

• Edit what you selected

  Select a paragraph, press the chord, and say “make this shorter”, “change Thursday to Friday”, “fix the typos” or “turn this into bullets”. The selection is rewritten in place, and only what you asked for changes.

• The selection is data, not orders

  Instructions hiding inside the selected text are not followed, and an instruction that cannot be applied returns your text unchanged. Latch reads the selection without interrupting a terminal, so Ctrl+C is never used.

• Custom: fix a word once

  When Latch spells a name wrong, select it, click Custom on the bar, and type it right. The word is fixed in the app on the spot and spelled your way on every take after. In a terminal, or with nothing selected, tap the wrong word in the text Latch just pasted.

• A dictionary in Settings

  The Dictionary tab lists your words and the spellings they replace, with a search box, editing and delete. Up to 200 words, saved to your account so they follow you to any PC. Latch warns you when the spelling you teach is an ordinary word.

• Only the words are kept

  A dictionary entry stores the word and its wrong spellings, never the sentence it came from. The text Latch pastes is held in memory for 5 minutes so Custom can offer it, never on disk and never sent.

• Your words reach the model

  The terms in your dictionary go to the model with each take, so it spells them your way from the start, including the rare names it would otherwise guess at.

• The app and the field

  The app, the window title, the label of the field you are in, the keyboard language and, in a browser, the site name (the host only, never the page address). Switch it off with App context in Settings.

• Text around the cursor

  Up to 1,500 characters before your cursor and 500 after it, from the focused field only. A reply continues the sentence you are in instead of starting a new one. Switch it off with Text around the cursor in Settings.

• Visible window text, opt-in

  Off until you turn it on. Latch then also reads up to 3,000 characters of the text shown in the window, such as the message you are answering, so names and the subject come out right.

• Places it never reads

  Password fields, password managers, private browser windows and terminals. Add any other app to Apps without context in Settings, or use Add the app I was just using. A take with a selection goes without context.

• Three switches, no restart

  App context, Text around the cursor and Visible window text each turn off on their own in Settings > System, and apply from the next take. The first take that sends context says once what went to the model.

• Not stored, not logged

  Context travels in the request for that one take and nowhere else: not in a database, not in a log, not in an error report. As a backstop, any long run of words copied from the surrounding text is cut from the answer before it is pasted.

• A drop on the screen edge

  At rest Latch is a small drop hanging from the top of the screen, centered by default. Rest the pointer on it and it becomes an orb. Drag the orb anywhere and it falls to the nearest edge and remembers its place.

• A bar that grows from the orb

  Click the orb and a bar opens toward the side with more room: Style, Translate, Custom, Settings and Quit. Style and Translate are dropdowns showing your choice. Leave the bar and it closes; click the orb to pin it open.

• States you can read at a glance

  A red ring while recording, a blue arc turning while it thinks, green while it updates, amber for a moment on an error. A rising chime says the mic is live and a falling one says the take is closed. A slow answer counts the seconds, so it is never mistaken for a finished one.

• Pause and Cancel on the orb

  While you record, rest the pointer on the orb and two buttons appear beside it. Pause holds the take without a gap, and the paused time is neither counted toward the 10-minute limit nor billed. Cancel throws the take away.

• Settings in four tabs

  Style and Translate for your lists, Dictionary for your words, and System for the microphone, the three context switches, apps without context, Start with Windows and error reports.

• Ready the moment you are

  The microphone warms up when the drop detaches and runs in its own hidden window, so the orb animation never stalls. On launch the orb pings and the bar says Latch is ready. The first few takes also remind you how to stop.

• Never loses what you said

  If the connection drops or the service is busy, Latch retries on its own, then keeps the take on your PC for up to 24 hours with a Retry button. Cancel it or close the app while it is processing, and it is kept too. Audio is written to disk only in those cases.

• Silence costs nothing

  Press the chord and say nothing, and the badge says “No speech heard”. A take with no speech is not sent, not pasted and not counted against your minutes.

• A microphone that is handled

  Pick your microphone in Settings. Latch falls back to the Windows default if it is missing, and says what is wrong in plain words: blocked by Windows privacy, no microphone, in use, muted, or not responding.

• Your clipboard stays yours

  Latch borrows the clipboard for the paste and puts back what was there once the app has taken the text, so what you copied is still there.

• Updates itself

  Latch checks for updates, downloads them in the background, and offers Restart to update. It also installs by itself once Windows has been idle for 10 minutes, never during a take. After an update the badge says Latch updated and which version.

• Installs without admin

  A one-click installer for the current user: no administrator prompt and no desktop shortcut. Start with Windows is on from the first launch and is a switch in Settings.

• Audio and text pass through, then drop

  Audio, the text it becomes, your selection and the text around your cursor pass through our server in memory for a single take and are dropped. No transcripts, no history, no raw audio on our servers.

• What we do keep

  Your account, your plan, the minutes you have used, your list of styles and your dictionary. That is all. On your PC Latch also keeps your settings and, only after a failed take, that one take for up to 24 hours.

• Sign in, no keys to paste

  Sign in with Google or email from the badge. There is no API key to find or paste, and your PC never holds a Google credential: the server fixes the model, the prompt and the limits.

• Error reports without content

  Latch can send a coded report when something fails: a code, versions and your user id, kept for 30 days. Never audio, text, a selection, your clipboard or your context. Turn it off with Send error reports in Settings.

• Free to start, the same on every plan

  60 recorded minutes a month with every feature and no card. Unlimited is $8 a month, with the same model and the same features. Past 60 minutes you get a reminder, never a cut-off.

• An account page

  Sign in on the web to see your plan, your minutes this month and your styles. Nothing on the web edits them: dictation and settings stay on the badge.

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Last updated October 5, 2026.