Voice to text for macOS
Hold a key, speak, and clean text lands wherever your cursor already is. Transcription runs on your Mac by default — the audio never goes anywhere.
Free plan, no card · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon & Intel
What it actually does
Every other dictation tool hands back exactly what came out of your mouth, filler and false starts included. That’s a transcript, not a message.
What you said
um so basically I was thinking that like we should probably move the deadline to next friday because the design team needs more time
What got typed
I think we should move the deadline to next Friday — the design team needs more time.
Setup
No workspace to configure, no model to download, no account needed before you try it.
It lives in your menu bar. No window to keep open and no browser tab.
Accessibility is what lets it type into the app you’re already in. Both prompts are macOS’s own.
Release the key and the polished text appears at your cursor. Nothing to copy, nothing to paste.
Built in
A native macOS app, not a browser in a costume.
Apple’s speech engine runs locally, so dictation works on a plane and costs nothing per word.
Filler words, false starts and punctuation are fixed before the text is inserted.
Mail, Slack, Xcode, Figma, a terminal, a form field in Safari. If you can type in it, you can talk to it.
Hold to talk, release to insert. Rebind it to whatever your hands already reach for.
Every transcript stays on your Mac, searchable, and never syncs anywhere you didn’t ask it to.
Speak any language macOS supports and get it back written properly.
Who it’s for
Dictate PR descriptions, documentation, Slack messages and commit notes. Keep your hands on the keyboard for code.
Draft emails, reports and client responses by speaking, and get professional text ready to send.
Speak patient notes and referrals between appointments, without slowing down your day.
Get past a blank page. Your first draft is done before you’d have finished an outline.
Pro
A second shortcut sends a spoken thought straight into your Notion database as a proper row — title, status, tags and due date filled in from your own schema. Notion never has to be open.
Read from your real properties — it won’t invent options your schema doesn’t have.
Privacy
By default, transcription happens on-device and your audio is never uploaded, stored, or used to train anything. Cloud transcription exists for difficult audio, and it stays off until you turn it on.
Not on your Mac, not on a server. It exists in memory for as long as you hold the key.
When AI polish is on, the transcript goes out for editing. The recording never does.
Stored on your machine, deletable in one click, with no cloud copy to request.
Pricing
$0 no card
$7.99 / month, cancel anytime
Free plan, no card · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon & Intel