Dictation adapts to the app you're typing into. Context is the frontmost app's identity only — Amlin never captures your screen, never takes screenshots, and never reads window contents.
The quick version: writing style
Settings → Dictation → App styles lists ~20 common apps with a Style dropdown each: Neutral, Casual, Formal, or Excited. Style rewrites the tone of your dictation for that app. It applies when cleanup is set to Standard, and takes effect on your next dictation.
The full version: app profiles
Dictation Settings → App profiles exposes everything, per app:
Setting | Options |
Disable dictation in this app | On / off — for games, presenting, anything you'd rather fn passed through |
Register | Casual / Professional |
Trailing period | Auto (by register) / Always keep / Drop on short messages |
List format | Markdown (- bullets) / Plain hyphens / Keep inline (casual) |
Cleanup level | Use global default / Verbatim / Light / Standard |
Style | Neutral / Casual / Formal / Excited (applies at Standard) |
Sensible defaults are built in
Around twenty common apps ship pre-profiled — chat apps (Slack, Messages, Discord) lean casual; writing apps (Mail, Notion, Obsidian, Word, Pages) use prose formatting; editors and terminals (VS Code, Cursor, Terminal, iTerm2, Warp, Xcode) get formatting that behaves in code contexts; AI chat apps (Claude, ChatGPT) and browsers get their own. Apps you configure yourself are added to the list.