scratchcat
a scratchpad with dictation, history, markdown and more
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Details
- External ID
- 1275087
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- scratchcat
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Productivity, Writing, Notes
Description
scratchcat sits in the corner of your screen as a small pill. One shortcut opens it over any app: type, paste or dictate on your device, with spelling and grammar checked offline. Everything you clear is kept in History. Windows now, Mac and Linux on pre-order.
Enrichment
- Niche
- digital sticky note apps
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- markdown scratchpad with voice dictation and history
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a desktop overlay scratchpad (built with Electron, Tauri, or Flutter) utilizing an open-source local speech-to-text library (like Whisper.cpp) and standard local database storage for history.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 169 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #99 of 170 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 256 days after the earliest competitor.
- Paste Box · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- typevoice · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Paw-Paw · ph · 2026-10-08 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ZenVoice · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- TypeDash · ph · 2026-09-18 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- HodoClip · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Kleanly · ph · 2026-09-26 · 109 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- WalkAITalkie · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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