Personal Project · App · 2026

Sprig

Meet Sprig, the app's little companion (built entirely in SVG + CSS)

What is Sprig? Sprig is a desktop voice-dictation app I designed and built with AI coding tools. You hold a hotkey, talk, and it types what you said wherever your cursor is. It's a real app with a cozy paper-cutout interface and a little bird, Sprig, who reacts while you talk.

How it works

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Press your hotkey from anywhere on your computer.
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Speak. Sprig listens, and the bird opens its beak with your voice.
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Let go, and Sprig chirps to tell you he heard you.
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The text pastes right where your cursor is. No copy-paste.

Inside the app

Sprig's home screen, showing the mascot, the hotkey hint, and recent dictations
Home, with your recent dictations and time saved.
Sprig's wardrobe of outfits that unlock as you dictate
The wardrobe, where new outfits unlock the more you dictate.

How I built it

This whole thing started with the chirp. I liked the idea of a little sound that tells you it heard you, and once I had that I wanted a bird to go with it, and then a whole app for the bird to live in. It's two quick rising notes made in code, so there's no sound file at all, and it plays the moment you stop talking.

I designed all of it and drew and animated the bird myself, and I made the calls on what to build and what to skip. I don't code, so I built it with Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, and kept testing and adjusting until it worked as a real app I use every day.
  • Design and art direction: mine
  • Implementation: built with Claude Code (Electron, React, TypeScript)
  • Transcription: Groq Whisper API
The Sprig pill in its resting, listening, and transcribing states
The pill floats above everything else. It stays small until you talk to it.