Quill Flow vs Columns AI (formerly Columns)

Quill Flow is a keyboard extension for iPhone that lets you swipe, type, or dictate in any app, then cleans up the text before it lands. Hold the mic, talk naturally, and get back formatted sentences with punctuation, capitalization, and filler words stripped out. It works in iMessage, WhatsApp, Gmail, Slack, Notes, and anywhere else you can type on iOS.

The keyboard combines glide typing, smart autocorrect, and dictation in one place so you do not have to switch apps or keyboards mid-message. Swipe typing covers 17 languages with live word candidates, while dictation supports 100+ languages including Hinglish for mixed Hindi and English in the same sentence.

Flow Studios built Quill Flow for people who write on their phone all day but hate fixing typos and messy transcripts. That includes commuters drafting emails, multilingual speakers code-switching mid-sentence, and VoiceOver users who need dictation that does not transcribe screen reader announcements.

Columns AI is an end-to-end data platform that connects messy files and live sources, automates transformations, and turns the results into charts and dashboards you can share. It is built around three products: Drive for ingesting and structuring files, Flow for no-code data pipelines, and Graph for branded visualizations.

The platform targets teams that need reliable data workflows without standing up a full engineering stack. You can connect Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, Excel, databases, Snowflake, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Gusto, and HTTP APIs, then describe transformations in plain language instead of writing SQL.

Columns AI fits business operators, consultants, marketing and RevOps teams, analysts, and freelancers who need to move from raw inputs to client-ready visuals. Founder Shawn Cao previously built large-scale data infrastructure at Microsoft, Facebook, and Pinterest.