Dead Air reads your chapter back to you in a flat voice and logs every place you flinch. When the chapter ends you have a list of the sentences that bothered you, each one a tap away from the spot in the document.
Listening to a draft read aloud is the best cheap edit there is. The trouble is what happens next. You hear something you don’t like, the document is not open, you are driving or walking or in bed.
You do not get it on the next pass. For a writer with ADHD the gap between noticing and fixing is where the note dies.
Read-aloud apps play audio and stop there. Dead Air closes the gap. It doesn’t tell you what a machine noticed. It records what you noticed.
You never stop listening to take a note, and you never have to remember anything afterward.
Paste text, open a .txt, .docx or .md, or share a file in from another app. Dead Air splits it into sentences and keeps the original intact.
The on-device voice reads at your speed. Works with the screen off, from the lock screen and from AirPods, like a podcast.
One big button. Tap it and the sentence under the playhead is marked. Hold it for a two-second voice note. Scrub back and that sentence is marked too.
The Flinch List opens when you stop. Tap a sentence and the document opens on it, cursor already in place. Check it off when it’s dealt with.
Send the revised text back out, or export the Flinch List alone as a plain-text note for wherever the manuscript really lives.
One list per listening session, saved with the document, so the second pass keeps the first pass’s notes. Sort by document order, or by session time to see where you started to get tired.
The sentence, its place in the document, and the time into the audio.
“Too long.” “She wouldn’t say that.” Transcribed under the sentence, clip attached.
Move the playhead back more than a sentence and the one you returned to is marked, lighter than a tap.
Greyed and kept in the session history, from the list or from the document.
Documents and Flinch Lists live on your iPhone and sync through your own iCloud. Nothing goes to a server, because there isn’t one.
No AI commentary on the text. The voice is flat on purpose, so the sentence is the only thing you’re reacting to.
$9.99, once. Not a monthly fee, not a word count. Manuscript-format export comes with it.
A small group of writers gets the beta first. Tell me who you are and I’ll send a TestFlight link when your spot opens.