Letterly Review: Convert Voice to Professional Content with AI (AppSumo Tool of the Year)

0:00 what's up everybody Dave Swift here client amp.com and I got some good news for the letterly fans out there letterly has been named one of Abo's tools of the year for 2024 congrats to the entire letterly team now I'm going to be bringing back my review of this Innovative Voice to Text tool in this video so we can rewatch a blast from the past together if you want to know more about abso tools of the year make sure you check my playlist down below I've got a dedicated video for every every single tool that was named a tool of the year in 2024 and I've also got my app Sumo link down there so you can help support the content along the way all right now let's hit play here is that letterly review this is another edition of that LTD life the series where I review the

0:48 best and sometimes the worst lifetime deals you can find on the internet to save you time and money as you find the tools you need to grow your online business today we're looking at an AI based tool it's 2024 everything's AI based but this one is kind of interesting to me actually it's called letterly and what it does is it lets you talk to your phone and it doesn't just do a transcription but it'll actually clean up your conversation so you can just ramble to your phone it's going to clean it up and turn it into usable content it's supposed to repurpose your words into a lot of different formats I think there was over 20 different formats let's check that yeah here are the plans and pricing it has 27 ways to rewrite your text with AI you can do up to 15minute recordings and it doesn't

1:33 matter what plan you choose here it's based on the number of users you have so if you just want to use it for yourself on your own personal phone it's going to be plan one if you have more users you'll find a plan that corresponds with that number of devices now after plan two I'm just going to point out one kind of idiosyncrasy I did notice after plan two it looks like you're going to get two devices per code and that is true as you go up to code number four codes you get six devices and you go up to five you get eight devices but between five and six something strange happens where you actually get an additional device so I'm going to point that out there that goes up by three never happens again so if you need a certain number that might be the sweet spot if you want to get some extra codes for employees that you weren't considering well there's a little price break there all right so

2:20 all of this is fine and dandy but how does the tool actually hold up is it going to be something that's usable or is it going to be one of those apps you put on your phone thinking it's going to make you more productive and then you never look at it again after about a week and a half let's find out this is the letterly website and I'm going to download the app here in a moment you can hover over the app store or Google Play store to get the QR codes to download the app but before I do that I just want to point out how beautifully done this website is not that that is the end all Beall but often if a website is really ugly looking it doesn't give me any hope for the UI of the app itself to be aesthetically pleasing looks like something here is not loading correctly on my browser maybe there's supposed to be a little video oh yep there it is there's a pause button over here as I was saying if the website looks terrible

3:06 usually the app does to now just because the website looks good doesn't mean the app is going to but it's almost never the other way around where the website is crap but then the app is delightful and you enjoy using it okay so here's the plan I'm actually going to download the app and see what the pricing is like inside of the app before I even buy anything on Appo that way we can kind of compare and see what we're really getting for our money so I've got their website open I'm going to hover over the App Store icon I got my phone I'm going to go ahead and scan the QR code it brings me right to their app in the store and you can see that it said get with inapp purchases so I'm going to go ahead and install the free version right now all right the app is now installed let's go ahead and open it up and it says speech to Magic to text so

3:52 obviously instead of just speech to text we are injecting some magic in between that's the concept I think that's supposed to communicate let's get started it says what do you want to do with Lally we have the option here of messages and emails sure notes thoughts and ideas you know honestly this all sounds pretty good I'm probably not going to do any journaling with it quite yet but maybe some social media posts and let's hit continue begin your journey to effortless writing and then it offers me a 7-Day free trial so let's go ahead and view their plans all right so it says 25 plus rewrite options that corresponds with what we saw on appsumo and it says unlimited number of notes and up to 15 minutes of recording so this is the exact plan that we are getting over on appsumo and if we compare this over on appsumo notice down here on the deal terms and conditions

4:38 this is called their Pro Plan so any future features they add to this plan we will also get with our appsumo lifetime deal now kind of interesting you only get the 7-Day trial if you do the yearly option if you switch to monthly it just says continue so I guess for the sake of trying this out I'm going to do the yearly plan and if I really like it then I'll go back over to appsumo and get the lifetime deal but there's no reason to buy it if I'm just going to end up returning it even though appsumo does have uh you know best in business Best in Class in my opinion return policy uh so let's go ahead and start my 7-Day trial now one of the best things you can do when you sign up for a free trial for an app and you're not really sure you want to continue is just right away go and unsubscribe that way in 7 days or however long the trial is you don't

5:24 accidentally forget and then get charged so I do this all the time as soon as I sign up for a trial I just go ahead and find the settings to unsubscribe right away before I even use the app so just quick aside here all you do is open up your settings click on your name at the top this is obviously for iPhone and then you'll go to subscriptions and there it is right here letterly I'll just tap on that and then cancel free trial notice it says you can still access it until July 14th I'm recording this on July 7th so I get my full trial I'll hit confirm there we go and now I'm not at risk of accidentally getting charged the 100 bucks if it turns out I like this I'm going to buy it on appsumo for less than that for sure because it's 99 a year on the phone it's going to be a onetime purchase of 59 bucks on appsumo and it looks like they do offer

6:09 the same trial on the Google Play Store and someone actually asked this question on appsumo already it says you can use the free trial for 7 days and then enter an app Sumo code but don't forget to cancel the subscription so we're well ahead of them before the end of the trial so you won't be charged so it looks like they wouldn't be able to override the subscription on the App Store you could actually have both going on at the same time so that's a very important tip if you do decide to go with the trial first all right well it says congratulations time to write like a pro let's let's try it out go to the Future Okay so it says hi there let's make the first recording and then need some ideas swipe to get some so I can send messages to an old friend describe my thoughts in detail for my new brilliant idea reflect on my day for some journaling and it looks like that's it I wonder what happens if I hit this X

6:55 over here that clears out all of the ideas that's kind of strange I want them back but I guess I'm stuck then I've got these three options at the bottom one looks like kind of the symbol for AI and if I click on that it takes me to basically like a text editor that's automatically dated and then obviously in the middle is going to be the recording and then on the right that looks like a gear icon kind of so I assume this is going to be some settings yeah this is going to be basically your configuration we've got our general settings here talk to the founders rate the app and then we can add a license code in here this is where we're going to enter in our app Sumo code if we make a purchase other than that there's no real setting so it's just time to actually try this thing out I'm going to hit the microphone okay so here I am I'm talking to letterly and it's obviously listening

7:41 to what I'm saying I can see it's kind of uh you know displaying this nice animation as though it's like a sound wave form but if I get going I notice there's kind of a redo button in the lower left hand corner so because I'm not really making a lot of sense so far I'm just going to go ahead and restart this now I want to think of a topic to ask Lally about out so maybe I'll try to come up with maybe some social media posting ideas so let's try that I'm going to go ahead and hit this redo button here and we'll start again so I believe that most people would be best served if they didn't invest in expensive SAS products but instead focus more of their business marketing technology Budget on things like opsource software and lifetime

8:28 deals it it's kind of silly to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on an a sa subscription or using a very expensive CRM that maybe is making you your money back but maybe you could also save $34,000 a year if you used a lifetime deal or an open-source alternative that you could easily host on your own I think I should create some social media content about this all right let's see how that does I'm going to go ahead and stop the recording and now it is transcribing what I've said with this nice beautiful transcription uh animation here it says transcription is in progress you can create a new note or come back later your recordings are safe so while this

9:13 is working I could go back out oh looks like the transcription just popped up and now it says rewrite I I'm definitely messed that up let's go back in okay I'm opening up my transcription here and now I have three options at the bottom I could just get the transcription exactly as it is or I could rewrite it so I'm going to choose that option and now it says magic slightly to clean up the text significantly for better understanding or there is more so I can do structured using bullet points and headings shorter make a list or we can do content creation this is pretty cool I can make an X post an X thread a Facebook post a LinkedIn post you can see all the options here a video script a newsletter a journal entry a gratitude JN all right

9:59 what I'm going to do I think is let's try out a newsletter okay so it's thinking and here we go it's giv me the newsletter and it's it looks like it's not formatted very nicely but it's actually using something called markdown so uh if I were to copy and paste this into a markdown editor it would look very beautiful all right let's check out the quality of the content is it any good because I noticed one thing right away that is a Telltale sign of AI and it says hello subscriber name name we hope this message finds you well I can't believe that AI is still saying I hope this message finds you well I mean it's just the biggest giveaway possible I'm surprised they have not like hardcoded that into the llms all right so as I

10:46 read through the newsletter it's actually almost word for word what I said it's definitely cleaned up the punctuation is nice everything looks great but it's not really expanded upon at all in fact it even ends with we're excited to create some social media content around this topic so stay tuned for more tips and insights I was kind of thinking that out loud as I made the the note so perhaps I need to find a way to edit the note before I change the content let's see if there's a way to do that so I'm going to go back out here's my note well actually that's the newsletter so can I find previous versions I can delete this rewrite let's see what happens if I do that okay then it reverts back to my original Text Okay cool so I'm going to go ahead in here and I can just edit this so I can say I'm going to end this last sentence where it says let's see how that does

11:31 I'm going to go ahead and stop the recording and I'll move even one sentence prior to that about the social media content okay and now I'm going to rewrite this and this time I want to expand upon it I want it to be much longer actually looks like there's no way to expand upon the text so let's go ahead and just try magic AI will choose the best way to rewrite okay now it's got me the little icon and it has been Rewritten it's not any longer for sure let's see if it's any better quality all right so this looks pretty nice uh the only thing it really substantially changed is it added a title at the top where it says investing in SAS products open source software and lifetime deals uh maybe not the most descriptive title I could think of but you know what I also just figured

12:18 there's those little dots at the top perhaps you watching the screen yelling at it thinking uh you don't need to delete the rewrite as we saw before there's the triple dots I can delete stuff I can share it from here I can save the audio but if I just scroll or swipe to the right it takes me back to the previous uh the original in this case where I could then generate another rewrite and if you notice here we got about halfway down through like the social content creation there's actually some really nice things with emails so we can do casual emails formal emails and we can do summaries as well so if you just talk for like 10 or 15 minutes you could have it then you know change that into basically a short summary or a detailed summary even meeting takeaways so you meet with someone you sit down hit record talk with them and then this

13:03 would be able to summarize it for you really nice from that point of view that's actually one of the first things that you probably couldn't do with just your standard chat EBC or Cloud subscription you could do it it would just be more cumbersome because you'd have to actually record the meeting let's say using your phone's voice memo platform and then take it into your computer and use like a whisper model to transcribe it and then get that transcription and then paste it into your you know Claud subscription or your chat GPT subscription and then ask it to summarize it so you could definitely do all of the things inside of this app without having this app but it just makes it a lot easier and more convenient and that's kind of what software is for all right so I'm going to change this into let's say how about a friendly message let's see what that

13:51 does here it says I think it would be really beneficial for most people to avoid investing in pricey SAS products instead they could focus business marketing technology Budget on open source software and lifetime deals so yeah I would definitely say that this is a more friendly version of what I just said I like it it you know probably could take a page out of how they communicate be a little bit more friendly I don't know and now I could scroll through all of the different versions here all right so really nice interface one other thing I noticed when I was going through the rewrite option is that there is some little stars here so if there's types of rewrites you like to use a lot let's say oh I don't know how about casual email I could put a star next to it and then it's up at the top here for favorites and then I can easily grab casual email it's going to

14:37 repurpose that and there we go now one nice thing here is I'm not limited by how many rewrites I do I can have it rewrited as many times as I want the only real limits on this plan is that 15minute length of recording I wish that were honestly a little bit longer it would be really nice if we could get the recording time up to 1 hour I think that would be the sweet spot because most most meetings are going to be done by 1 hour and if they're not you can obviously just stop it and then record again all right a couple other nice things to point out about this app is that it does work with the screen off let's try that out so I'm going to go back out of my message here we'll do a new recording and I'm just going to close my phone here and now I am recording that is just the lights you saw on my phone I'm recording let's see

15:22 if it's actually going to capture anything um I'm going to talk and talk and here we go I'm all done I'm going to open up my phone and I'll hit stop and let's see what the transcription looks like yeah it looks like the transcription is perfect it continues recording even with your phone close so uh that is both cool and disturbing because now you don't know if someone's recording your conversation and transcribing it so that it can use AI to steal your thoughts and ideas this also works offline it does recordings offline but I can't imagine it doesn't do any of the Wizardry of you know the magic part where it injects that in between you're going to need to connect for that I have to imagine so why not try it out one last thing I'm going to throw this thing into airplane mode we'll turn off Wi-Fi and I go back out I'll hit record he am testing out

16:08 offline recording here I can see I've got about 14 minutes and 54 seconds left but don't worry I'm not going to take that long uh I know it says nothing will be lost even though I'm offline but I'm worried a little bit all right let's stop the recording okay so I'm done recording now instead of going through the transcription process it just shows me kind of a little animation but it hasn't gone through the normal transcription process if I open up the doc it says connect to the Internet so let's do that and see how quickly it transcribes all right I'm connected and like immediately it started processing so that's pretty cool this seems like a really well-written app you know depending on how much you'd use it is whether or not this would be useful but like does it do what it says it was

16:54 going to do absolutely all right I'm just going to do one more recording here I want to test out one of the uh rewrites called list mode or whatever it was called exactly I'm not sure but let's try it on I'm going to list some things here all right so when I go to the grocery store I need to make sure that I get some berries some avocados some turkey deli meat and perhaps some toilet paper I think we're almost out and you know what I better not forget to pick up some avocado oil for cooking we've been using that a lot lately and I think it's getting short all right that is all all right so now it's doing the transcription and now I'm going to go down in the rewrites to list make a list for tasks shopping Etc all right so I'm going to choose that and I'm hoping it's going to kind of cut out all of that extra stuff that I said there we go it

17:39 does it did a pretty nice job of that again it's using markdown so it's got me the grocery list berries avocados turkey deli meat toilet paper and it says check if almost out avocado oil for cooking really really nice I mean that's beautiful I I could just ramble exactly what I need to get wandering around the house and end up with a finished grocery list pretty cool all right so wrap WRA this up let's see what we can do with these text if I hit the share with button here it's going to pop open my normal share sheet and I can send this over to any app so if you happen to use say like Apple notes you can click one button here and then you have a brand new note with everything that you just created now the downside is that Apple notes doesn't actually support markdown so you'll end up with those weird formatting marks so in this note of course there's only one instance of the markdown it doesn't look that terribly

18:24 bad but a nice feature upgrade that they could maybe plan for the future is an option to export in HTML or maybe just like Rich formatting so that it doesn't only use markdown I love markdown and I wish it was on every application however it's currently not so uh we do have to have good ways to go interchangeably between different formats that don't involve using like web tools that regular people are not going to know about or be able to manage to figure out how to copy and based out of so all right so overall I think this is a pretty cool app I could definitely see myself using it right away whether or not it would hang on for the long term really just kind of depends on how good the AI features get that are already built into your phone so that would be my only kind of hesitation about if I'm

19:11 going to use this longterm because I can imagine just talking to you know your built-in voice assistant and doing the exact same thing and having it generate a note on your native platform for you that would obviously be the best because it's everything's all built in but right now this works and it's got all those options for different types of content that I could see being really useful as well all right so I'm going to give letterly a 7.7 I think this is a really beautiful app with excellent execution my one hesitation is what I already mentioned about the longevity of it whether or not it's just going to simply be replaced with functions in our default apps so I don't know if I'd want to make a huge investment in it if it's going to be built in maybe in 3 or 4

19:57 months to the OS of whatever platform you're using and hey I'd love to use this on my desktop as well why does it only work on the phone uh that's something I would love to have solved because this seems like it would be useful right inside of my desktop so I could easily go into like emails and paste things into that so that's going to do it for this video if you have any questions always leave them in the comments if you want some help with your website or your online business make sure you check out client am.com me and my team would be happy to check out what you're working on and see if there's some way we could contribute to your success uccess my name once again is Dave Swift thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next review