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Letterly Zapier integrationAutomate Letterly with Zapier.

The Letterly Zapier integration has 1 trigger, 0 actions and 0 searches. That single trigger is instant: you pick an action on a voice note in Letterly, and the text leaves for whichever app you chose. It runs on the free plan.

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Overview

What the Letterly Zapier integration does with your voice notes

Letterly turns your voice into tidy written text you can reuse. The Zapier integration adds a way out. You build a Zap, give it a name, and that name appears as an action on your notes in Letterly. Pick it, and the note goes wherever the Zap sends it.

A spoken update that reaches your team. You dictate a quick status, then pick the action you named for your team. Letterly Actions starts the Zap, and a message lands in your team chat without any copy and paste.

Ideas filed where you work on them. A second Zap, with a name of its own, sends the note to your project or note-taking tool as a new card.

Drafts that start in your mail tool. A third Zap turns a dictated email into a draft, ready to read once more before sending.

Each Zap is one named action in Letterly, so you can keep several side by side and choose per note.

What Zapier does not do here. Letterly has no actions and no searches on Zapier: nothing can write back into Letterly, and a Zap cannot fetch an older note. The trigger only fires when you pick the action yourself, never on its own when a note is created. If you are weighing platforms for this kind of flow, see our n8n vs Zapier comparison.

Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary in one minute

Seven words keep coming back on this page. Plain English, one line each.

Zap
The automation you build: one trigger, then one or more actions that run each time the trigger event shows up.
Trigger
The event that starts the Zap. With Letterly, it is you choosing a named action on one of your notes.
Action
What the Zap does once it has started: the step that sends or writes the note into another app for you.
Task
The unit Zapier bills. One action that completes successfully is one task, and your plan counts those.
Instant trigger
A trigger the app reports itself, the moment the event happens. The Letterly trigger works this way.
Polling trigger
A trigger Zapier checks on a timer, at your plan's interval. Letterly has no trigger of this kind.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap continue only when the incoming data meets your condition, and stops it otherwise.
Cost

What a Letterly Zap really costs

Letterly is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan. You pay in tasks, and only finished actions count.

  • Premium appNo, works on the free plan
  • Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps only
  • TriggerInstant, never costs a task
  • Failed actionNot counted

Picking an action on a note costs nothing: the trigger never uses a task. Each action that goes through in the other app is one task, and a failed one is not counted. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but each Zap stops at two steps, one trigger and one action. A filter or a second action makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan.

Because the Letterly trigger is instant, the plan interval grid below does not slow it down: a free account sends the note as fast as an Enterprise one.

Connect

Connect Letterly to Zapier in three steps

  1. 01

    Open your Apps page

    In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. You need a Letterly account first, the one where you record the notes you want to send.

  2. 02

    Find Letterly

    Type Letterly in the search box of the dialog, pick it from the results, then click Add connection. A new browser tab opens on Letterly's side for your login.

  3. 03

    Sign in and allow access

    Log in to Letterly in that tab and grant Zapier access to the account. The connection then shows on your Apps page, ready for every Letterly Zap you build.

First Zap

Your first Zap: a dictated update posted to your team

GoalWhen you pick your team action on a Letterly note, the text is posted in your team chat, unless it fails your condition.

  1. 01

    Create the Zap

    Create a new Zap, pick Letterly as the starting app and Letterly Actions as the event, then choose your Letterly connection.

  2. 02

    Name the action

    Fill in the Zap Name with a short label that says where the note goes. That exact label will appear in Letterly when you choose an action for a note.

  3. 03

    Test the trigger

    In Letterly, pick the new action on a short note, then run the test: Zapier brings back the most recent items so you can choose a real one.

  4. 04

    Add the filter

    Click the plus icon, add a filter and fill its three boxes: the field, the rule, the value. This step makes the Zap multi-step, so it needs a paid plan.

  5. 05

    Add the message

    Add your team chat as the action, pick the channel and map the note's text into the message. Then test, and click Publish.

Triggers

The Letterly trigger

1 event starts a Zap when something happens in Letterly, and one of them is instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

1

Letterly Actions

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when you select an action from the note.”

Starts your Zap when you choose, on a note in Letterly, the action that carries this Zap's name. The note's text travels to the next step, so whatever you dictated can become a message, a card or a draft elsewhere.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
you want some notes to go to a given place, on your say-so, rather than every note going everywhere.
Watch out
the Zap Name field is required, and it is the label you will see in Letterly; two Zaps with similar names are easy to mix up when you tap.
When it breaks

When a Letterly Zap breaks

Zapier links no help article to Letterly, so these cases come from the rules every Zap follows.

Most surprises come from expecting the Zap to do more than the trigger allows. When the cause is not obvious, start from our Zapier troubleshooting guide.

  • Older notes are not sent

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is published. Notes you picked the action on before that stay where they are.
  • Recording alone starts nothing

    Dictating or saving a note does not fire the trigger. The Zap only starts when you choose its named action on that note.
  • A sudden burst held back

    When a trigger suddenly sends a huge batch at once, Zapier's flood protection can hold it back rather than run every Zap.
  • Two names too alike

    Each Zap shows up in Letterly under its Zap Name. Two names that look alike make it easy to send a note to the wrong place.
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FAQ

Letterly Zapier integration: your questions

01Is the Letterly Zapier integration free?
Yes. Letterly is not a premium app, so it runs on the free Zapier plan. That plan gives you 100 tasks a month and as many Zaps as you want, with a limit few people mention: each Zap is two steps, one trigger and one action. Sending a note to your team chat fits in that. Add a filter or a second action and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. Several separate two-step Zaps, each with its own name, stay free.
02How many tasks does a Letterly Zap use?
One task per action that succeeds in the other app. Choosing the action on a note costs nothing, because the trigger never uses a task. A Zap that posts the note to your team chat uses one task each time you pick it; one that also adds a row to a spreadsheet uses two. An action that fails is not counted against your plan. Since you decide note by note what to send, your task count stays in your hands.
03Does Letterly send notes to Zapier in real time?
Yes. Letterly Actions is an instant trigger: Letterly tells Zapier the moment you pick the action on a note, and the Zap starts right away. The plan interval grid, every 15 minutes on the free plan, does not apply to it, so a free account sends notes as fast as a paid one. The editor marks such Zaps with a lightning bolt, and that behavior is set by Letterly, not by a setting you can change.
04What does it take to connect a Letterly account?
A Letterly account, the one you record your notes with. In Zapier you open the Apps page, click + Add connection, search for Letterly, sign in in the tab that opens and grant access. The connection is then reused by every Letterly Zap. The one field the trigger requires is the Zap Name, which becomes the action label you see in Letterly, so decide on a clear name before you build.
05Why does a new Letterly note not start the Zap?
Because creating a note is not the event. The Letterly Actions trigger fires only when you choose, on a note, the action that carries your Zap's name. Until you pick it, nothing reaches Zapier. If you picked it and still see nothing, check that the Zap is published and that you chose the right name; with several Zaps, similar labels are easy to confuse. Notes acted on before you published the Zap are not sent either.
06What if the Letterly step you need is not in Zapier?
Then the integration does not cover it today. The single trigger on this page is everything Zapier shows for Letterly in the editor: no action writes into Letterly, and no search fetches an older note. The usual way forward is to keep that part in Letterly by hand, or to check whether another automation platform reaches more of the app before you build a flow around the missing step. Better to know that before starting.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Letterly?
It depends on your criteria rather than on a winner. Zapier gives you one instant trigger that runs on the free plan, with two-step Zaps unless you pay, and each Zap appears as a named action in Letterly. Make and n8n differ on how they bill runs, how many steps you get without paying and how much setup they ask of you. Compare those points against the places your notes need to reach.