Dictation that never leaves your Mac.
Hold fn, speak, let go. The words land wherever you’re typing — clean, punctuated, ready. Every step happens on your laptop: no cloud, nothing to upload.
# Deploy notes
hold fn · speak · release
One key. Your Mac does the rest.
Works in any app
Dictate works through your clipboard — hold fn, speak, and your words land wherever you're typing.
Private by design
What you say never leaves your Mac. Recording, recognition and the cleanup pass all run on your laptop — there is nowhere for your words to go.
Turns the music down while you speak
Hold to talk and your music ducks out of the way — or pauses — then comes right back the moment you let go.
Reads like you typed it
Dictate fixes false starts and adds punctuation on the fly, so the result reads like a sentence you wrote, not a transcript of one you spoke.
Both languages, no switching
English and Swedish are understood per phrase. You decide nothing — you just talk.
There when you need it
Runs quietly in the background, looks after its own updates and restarts, and is ready the moment you press the key.
Nothing you say leaves the machine.
The microphone, the speech recognition, and the finishing pass all run on your Mac. There is nowhere for a transcript to go — the app keeps no analytics and ships with no tracking, and neither does this page.
Audio is recorded on your Mac and never travels any further.
Transcripts stay on your disk, and only if you want them.
Updates check a signed manifest, verified on your machine before anything installs.
Pricing
Free to try, sign up today.
Free
$0/month
- Voice to text in any app
- Full privacy — nothing leaves your Mac
- Multi language support
Limited to 2000 words per week
Cloud dictation runs $15+ a month and sends your voice somewhere else. Pro keeps Dictate on your Mac — and funded.
FAQ
What are the requirements to run Dictate?
Requires Apple Silicon with macOS 26 and an Apple keyboard.
What does the cleanup pass do?
Speaking runs into false starts — "Ship the beta on Friday, uhm, no, I mean Monday." A finishing pass runs on your Mac, and what lands in the focused field reads as if you typed it.
Does it work in any app?
Yes — anywhere you can type and paste. Hold fn, speak, let go, and the finished text lands in the focused field.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Recording, speech recognition and the cleanup pass all run on your Mac.