Price terms as published
Each line is the vendor’s own wording, split from the price capture checked on 2026-09-15. Nothing here is rounded, converted or re-worded — the full sentences stay in the review below. Lines that carry only a price continue the plan named on the line above, in the vendor’s own order.
| # | Plan / term | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free | 2026-09-15 |
| 2 | Pro $22/mo monthly | 2026-09-15 |
| 3 | $18/mo annual (unlimited) | 2026-09-15 |
One-liner: Loqua is a Mac and Windows voice-typing app that lives behind a global shortcut: speak in one language, dictate straight into any app, ask questions about your screen, and translate mid-sentence into 100+ languages. It launched on Product Hunt on September 11, 2026 as the day’s #1 product. Pricing and feature claims below were checked directly against the current official pricing page (theloqua.ai/en/pricing.html) on 2026-09-15.
Price-change note (important). Loqua’s published Pro price changed within days of launch: launch-week material quoted $12 monthly / $8 annual. The current official pricing page now lists $22 monthly / $18 annual, with the free tier raised from 5,000 to 8,000 words/week and the trial extended from 14 to 30 days. This piece uses the current page and treats the launch-week figures as stale.
Verified facts (checked 2026-09-15)
| Attribute | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | $0, no credit card — core dictation, smart cleanup, basic context detection, 8,000 words/week, personal dictionary capped at 5 entries, mid-sentence translation, 100+ languages | Official current pricing page |
| Pro Monthly | $22/mo, billed monthly — unlimited dictation, full context intelligence, per-app tone & formatting, multimodal screen reading, unlimited dictionary + batch import, Ask anything (LLM polish), prioritized feature requests, early access to new models | Official current pricing page |
| Pro Annual | $18/mo, billed annually — identical features to Pro Monthly | Official current pricing page |
| Trial | Every new account starts on a 30-day free Pro trial, then auto-drops to Free; upgrade anytime from the app | Official pricing-page FAQ |
| Refund | Cancel within 14 days for a prorated refund (days used charged at the standard rate); after 14 days, cancellation stops the next renewal | Official pricing-page FAQ |
| Privacy | Zero cloud data retention, never trained on your data, on-device history storage, dictation-history control, GDPR | Official pricing page |
| Platforms | Mac and Windows desktop supported; iOS and Android both “Coming soon”; team management “Coming soon” | Official pricing page |
| Launch | Product Hunt September 11, 2026 — #1 Product of the Day (1,018 votes) | Product Hunt daily leaderboard |
This is an official-information entry: we have not run a working subscription, so there is no hands-on score.
What Loqua actually does
The core loop is a single global shortcut that works in any app — no copying text between a dictation window and your editor. Within that loop there are four jobs the marketing groups together, and it is worth separating them because they are not equally polished:
- Voice typing with smart cleanup. Speech lands as punctuation-clean, formatted text, with filler words removed and basic structure inferred.
- Mid-sentence language switching. You speak in one language and choose a target language; the sentence is written in the target language. The pricing page lists this on both Free and Pro; the landing page says 100+ target languages.
- Context intelligence (Pro). Per-app tone and formatting rules — dictate terse in Slack, formal in email — plus understanding the structure of what you’re saying.
- Multimodal screen reading (Pro). Capture part of your screen and ask questions about what is on it, rather than describing it by voice.
The differentiated claim is number two, the inline translation. Most dictation apps accept many source languages (you can dictate in your own tongue); Loqua is selling output translation inside the same sentence, which is a different job aimed at multilingual support, localization, and cross-language writing.
What the pricing page does not say
Two things matter before the $18/$22 number means anything:
- Accuracy and translation quality are not spec-sheet facts. A language count and a “native phrasing” claim don’t tell you how Loqua handles code-switching mid-sentence, technical vocabulary, or mixed-language sentences. That is the thing to spend the 30-day trial on, not the feature list.
- “Unlimited” is the vendor’s word, tested behind one keyboard. Loqua says unlimited dictation on Pro; what that costs in practice depends entirely on whether you already dictate for hours daily. The free tier’s 8,000 words/week is the more useful number for deciding whether you’re this product’s user at all.
Who it’s for
- People who genuinely write in two or more languages and want translation in the same motion as dictation — this is the only feature here that the obvious rivals don’t do inline
- Heavy dictators on Mac or Windows who want per-app formatting rules and screen-reading in one tool, and accept that the Pro price is now premium rather than budget
- Try-before-buy users: the free tier (8,000 words/week) plus a 30-day Pro trial is a real evaluation window, no card for the free plan
- Not for: anyone who wants a phone dictation app today (iOS/Android are “Coming soon”), anyone who needs meeting transcription (Loqua has no meeting bot or recorder), or anyone who just wants the cheapest unlimited tier — at $18/$22 it no longer is one
Sources
- https://www.theloqua.ai/en/pricing.html (official current pricing page — Free tier and word cap, Pro monthly/annual prices, full feature table, trial and refund terms, privacy and platform rows — checked 2026-09-15; this is the page linked from the site’s navigation and sitemap)
- https://www.theloqua.ai/en (official landing page — product claims, translation flow, language count, launch positioning — checked 2026-09-15)
- https://www.producthunt.com/leaderboard/daily/2026/9/11 (third-party — Loqua #1 Product of the Day at 1,018 votes — checked 2026-09-15)
- Price-change note: an earlier official legacy page and launch-week blog material quoted $12 monthly / $8 annual, 5,000 words/week, and a 14-day trial; those figures are stale and were not used in the tables above.