Aqua Voice

Talk into any text box - write 4x faster than typing.

aquavoice.com

HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA

1-10

Consumer

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

Aqua Voice is a San Francisco-based AI voice-input company building a system-wide dictation app and its proprietary Avalon speech model to turn speech into clean, formatted text across desktop, mobile, terminals, and developer tools.

Primary product

Aqua Voice, a system-wide AI voice dictation app for Mac, Windows, and iOS

Founded

2023

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

1-10

Work style

Onsite

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

AI voice dictation / speech recognition / text editor

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States

New York City, New York, United States

Business model

consumer subscription

team SaaS

enterprise SaaS

API usage-based

Funding

Stage

pre-seed

Total raised

$2.8M

Latest round

Convertible Note · Apr 2024

Latest amount

$500K

Convertible Note

Apr 2024 · Y Combinator

$500K

Seed VC

Mar 2024

Pre-Seed

Feb 2024 · Y Combinator

$500K

People & investors

Leadership

Finn Brown

Co-Founder & CEO

Jack McIntire

Co-Founder & CTO

Pablo Peniche

Head of Growth

Investors

1517 Fund

Assembly Capital Partners

David Petersen

Pioneer Fund

Y Combinator

Work & culture

Small, product-focused team emphasizing speed, accuracy, deep OS integration, and security/compliance; hiring appears hands-on and engineering-heavy.

Work style

Onsite

Compensation

Public job postings show Full Stack Engineer pay of $130K–$210K plus equity and bonus, and iOS Engineer pay of $130K–$230K plus equity and bonus.

Product & market

Pricing

Freemium subscription with monthly/annual plans; team and enterprise tiers; Avalon API priced separately by audio usage.

Differentiators

—System-wide dictation across every app, not just one editor
—Proprietary Avalon model tuned for human-computer interaction and technical vocabulary
—Deep Context screen reading for better code/syntax accuracy
—Very low latency (text appears in roughly 450ms after release)
—Desktop, web, and iOS coverage
—Compliance posture with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification
—OpenAI-compatible Avalon API

Technology

Avalon proprietary speech model

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Electron

Python

Bun

Node.js

WebSockets

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

AVFoundation

Audio Unit

Terraform

Stripe

keyboard extensions

Shortcuts

accessibility APIs

Customers

Developers using Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, terminals, Slack, and email

People writing code, prompts, emails, and documents by voice

Teams that want compliant voice dictation with SOC 2 / ISO 27001 controls

Users who benefit from accessibility-oriented voice input

Competitors

OpenAI Whisper

ElevenLabs Scribe

Wispr Flow

macOS Dictation

Cursor Voice Mode

Claude Code /voice

Windsurf Voice Mode

Google voice typing

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

~$300k–$500k ARR (third-party estimates; GetLatka estimates about $330k as of 2025-09-02)

Estimated monthly visits

66.7K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2025

support@withaqua.com

Latest news

Aqua Voice is ISO 27001 certified

Aqua Voice Blog · Jul 2026

Official announcement that Aqua Voice became ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified after a third-party audit; it references prior SOC 2 Type II compliance and says the company is hiring a Security Engineer.

Voice coding in 2026: how to dictate to Cursor, Claude Code, and every AI agent

Aqua Voice Blog · Jun 2026

Explains Aqua as a system-wide push-to-talk layer for AI-coding workflows, with details on Deep Context, pricing, and how it works across Cursor, Claude Code, terminal, and other apps.

Aqua Voice – the best dictation app I've ever used – is now on iPhone

9to5Mac · Apr 2026

External coverage of the iPhone launch describing Aqua Voice as a keyboard-based dictation app for iPhone and noting the single subscription covers Mac and iPhone.

Aqua Voice for iOS