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Talk through the design so the cursor can listen.

Crit comments in Figma by voice. Client crits and design reviews recorded locally with Meeting Notes, summary and action items waiting when you stop. The AI chat reading the artifact on screen. Three tools, one app, no NDA risk.

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A field guide for designers, updated May 4, 2026 by Branden Chong.

In practice

How designers use Dollop.

  1. 01.

    Figma comments without typing.

    Walk a stakeholder through a frame the way you would in person, then drop the comment as a paragraph. Hit ⌥ Space, talk, and Dollop pastes a clean comment exactly where the cursor is.

    Heard

    the spacing here feels tight, try bumping the section padding to 32 and seeing how that breathes. the headline weight is doing more work than the size, so we could try regular at 56 instead of medium at 48.

  2. 02.

    Record client crits and design reviews.

    Hit ⌃ R when the meeting starts. Meeting Notes captures system audio (Zoom, Meet, FaceTime) plus your mic, transcribes locally, and outputs feedback as bullets you can act on. No bots in the call, no cloud upload of unreleased work, no per-minute pricing like Otter.

    Heard

    feedback themes: hierarchy needs tightening on home, color contrast on CTAs is borderline, want to see one more variant of the empty state. nice-to-haves: sticker sheet for badges. blockers: brand still hasn't approved the secondary palette.

  3. 03.

    Ask the AI chat about the artifact on screen.

    ⌃ S opens the chat overlay with optional screen context. Ask it to spot weak hierarchy, suggest tighter copy, or describe the design's voice. Reads what's on screen locally; nothing about your unreleased work leaves the Mac.

  4. 04.

    Briefs and emails with the right tone.

    Mail wants formal. Slack wants casual. Messages wants warm. Dollop's per-app tone matching shifts automatically based on where your cursor is, so the same dictation comes out right in each app. AI chat (⌃ S) can rewrite a sharp note into something more constructive without softening the substance.

What you actually get

Dollop mapped to your work.

Voice dictation (⌥ Space)
Figma comments, FigJam sticky notes, Notion briefs, Pages decks, Mail replies, all system-wide.
Meeting Notes (⌃ R)
Record client crits, design reviews, and stakeholder syncs locally. No bot in the call. No upload of unreleased work.
AI chat with screen context (⌃ S)
Spot weak hierarchy, suggest tighter copy, describe a design's voice, all from what's on screen.
Per-app tone matching
Casual in Messages, formal in Mail, excited in Slack. Same dictation, three correct outputs.
Custom design-system vocabulary
Project codenames, design tokens, plugin names, agency-internal acronyms recognized verbatim.
On-device by architecture
Client work and unreleased designs never leave your Mac. Verifiable with Little Snitch.
A type specimen

How the cleanup reads.

Real before-and-after dictation on terms specific to designers, processed locally on Apple Foundation Models.

Figma comment (precise design feedback)
Heard

the spacing here feels tight try bumping the section padding to thirty two and seeing how that breathes. the headline weight is doing more work than the size so we could try regular at fifty six instead of medium at forty eight.

Cleaned

The spacing here feels tight; try bumping the section padding to 32 and seeing how that breathes. The headline weight is doing more work than the size, so we could try regular at 56 instead of medium at 48.

Crit feedback (constructive tone)
Heard

uh the visual hierarchy is fighting itself the eyebrow the headline and the c t a all want to be the focal point. picking one and demoting the other two would make this a much stronger composition.

Cleaned

The visual hierarchy is fighting itself: the eyebrow, the headline, and the CTA all want to be the focal point. Picking one and demoting the other two would make this a much stronger composition.

Why it fits

Why designers care.

Per-app tone matching.

A different voice for every app. Casual in Messages, formal in Mail, excited in Slack, terse in Linear. Set once; Dollop adjusts automatically based on the cursor location.

Custom vocabulary for your stack.

Add the design tools, framework names, and team acronyms you use every day. Figma plugin names, design-system tokens, project codenames, recognized verbatim instead of phoneticized.

On-device, by design.

Client work and unreleased designs should never leave your Mac. Meeting Notes recordings, dictation transcripts, chat queries: all stay local. No third-party AI provider, no cloud-meeting-notes vendor, no NDA risk.

Free, with no subscription.

Tools shouldn't tax your design budget. Dollop is free forever, no premium tier, no credit card. The full app is the free app, including Meeting Notes.

Asked & answered

Questions, answered.

Does Dollop work in Figma? +
Yes. Dollop pastes clean text at your cursor in any app, including Figma comment threads, FigJam, and the desktop app. Figma-specific page.
Can Dollop record client calls and design reviews? +
Yes. Meeting Notes captures system audio plus your mic, transcribes locally on Apple's Neural Engine, and produces a summary with bulleted feedback. Audio and transcripts stay on your Mac, no cloud routing of unreleased designs.
How does it compare to Otter, Granola, or Fireflies for design reviews? +
Those tools upload audio to the cloud and often train on user data unless you opt out. Dollop's Meeting Notes is on-device by architecture; for client work and unreleased designs, that's the difference between safe-by-default and a redaction pass before each meeting.
Can I dictate into Notion, Pages, and Mail? +
Yes, system-wide. Anywhere there is a text input, ⌥ Space dictates and pastes clean text. Tone adjusts per app automatically.
How does the tone matching actually work? +
Dollop's adapter is fine-tuned to recognize the front app and adjust voice accordingly: terser in Linear, warmer in Messages, formal in Mail, excited in Slack. You can override per-app in Settings if a default doesn't match your style.
Is it safe to dictate sensitive client work? +
Yes. There is no network call in the dictation, chat, or Meeting Notes paths. Audio and transcripts stay on your Mac. Verifiable with Little Snitch or Activity Monitor. Full privacy details.
Hardware requirements? +
Apple Silicon (M1+) on macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence enabled.

You spend the day shaping how things look. The tools you use to talk about that work, dictate, record, ask, should feel just as considered. Download Dollop and run the next crit by voice.

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