Quill 0.7.0
You no longer need a Grok subscription.
Choose Use my own xAI API key… from the menu and paste a key from console.x.ai. Usage is billed to your own account. If you have both a key and a Grok session, the key is used.
The key is checked against xAI before it's saved, so a typo shows up immediately rather than mid-dictation.
How it's handled — it's a billable credential, so it's treated as one:
- Stored in your Mac's Keychain, never in preferences (a plist any process running as you could read)
WhenUnlockedThisDeviceOnly— unreadable while your Mac is locked, never synced to other hardware or restored from a backup- Entered in a secure field, so it's never drawn on screen
- Never written to the log — only whether an operation succeeded
- Only ever sent to
api.x.ai, over TLS - Removable any time from the same menu item
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xfreeze2/quill/main/install.sh | bash