Nova is a desktop voice-powered productivity copilot, officially positioned as "Your Voice OS for Desktop," with the core idea of "voice to text, voice to answers, voice to actions."
Purpose Nova is designed to let users complete everyday desktop work by voice, reducing the cost of typing and switching between different tools. The official claim is that its voice dictation is up to 10 times faster than typing and features context-aware formatting.
Main capabilities
- Voice dictation: supports voice input across applications, which the official description calls "dictation for a new era."
- Formatting mode: can instantly reformat text into any style without switching to an LLM or grammar tool; users can choose preset styles, enter a custom style, or directly state verbally how they want it formatted, triggered by a shortcut.
- Voice actions: perform real actions in applications via voice commands, such as sending messages. The official emphasis is "we will never execute actions without your permission," and users delegate routine tasks while still retaining 100% control.
- Name and terminology recognition: the official example explains that dictating emails, terminology, and names becomes effortless, for example saying "Send this to Tony" can be recognized as tony@novavoice.app, or directly insert a United Airlines frequent flyer number.
- Voice Q&A: no need to switch to Google or Perplexity; press the shortcut and ask a question by voice to get an instant answer; it also supports asking questions about content on the screen.
How to use Nova runs as a desktop application and supports macOS, Windows, and Linux. Users complete dictation, formatting, questions, and actions via voice and shortcuts, and must confirm executed actions.
Use cases It is suitable for desktop work scenarios that require frequent text input across multiple applications, writing emails, handling terminology and names, quickly obtaining answers, or performing routine message sending. Target users include individual users and teams.
Pricing and plans The official page lists three plans:
- Free plan: start at zero cost, including limited AI voice dictation, limited formatting and personalization, limited connectors and in-app action execution, terminology dictionary, and limited AI voice assistant.
- Standard plan: for personal use, priced at $10 per month, with the first 5,000 paying users locking in that price for life. Includes unlimited AI voice dictation, unlimited formatting, unlimited connectors and in-app action execution, unlimited AI voice assistant.
- Team plan: for high-performing teams, including shared formatting styles and preferences, shared team dictionary, priority support, centralized billing, and a per-seat price lower than the Standard plan.
Limitations The official source does not provide explanatory text on specific data storage and processing methods, and only lists "How is my data handled?" as a frequently asked question. The official source also does not provide a specific list of connectors, a list of supported applications, the specific quota values for each plan, the specific price of the team plan, or functional details beyond the free and standard versions.