WHY DICTATE

Built for speed. Wired for privacy.

Every detail tuned to get out of your way — and stay on your device.

100% on-device

Whisper runs locally on Apple Silicon. Your voice never reaches a server. No cloud, no account, no telemetry.

Press. Speak. Done.

One hotkey. Hold to dictate, release to insert. Zero setup, zero menus.

100+ languages

Speak Spanish, Japanese, Arabic — type in English. Or any pair you choose.

Works in every app

Slack, Mail, Notes, Figma, Safari, VS Code, Linear, Notion — anywhere you can type.

Even in the terminal

Vim, tmux, your IDE — Dictate works in every TTY and text field on macOS.

3× faster than typing

Average 160 WPM dictated vs 50 WPM typed. Keep your flow.

SEE IT IN ACTION

Five things that make Dictate different.

Dictate

FOR MACOS

100% PRIVATE · ON-DEVICE

Your voice.
Your Mac.
Nothing leaves.

Dictate runs Whisper entirely on your Mac. No cloud. No servers. No account. Your words never touch the internet.

Works offline

No account required

Zero telemetry

dictate · on-device engine

LIVE

YOUR VOICE

microphone

WHISPER · LOCAL

Apple Silicon · Neural Engine

YOUR TEXT

any app

Network activity: none

0 KB sent · 0 KB received · no connections

api.openai.comNOT CONTACTED

speech.googleapis.comNOT CONTACTED

azure.cognitiveservices.comNOT CONTACTED

dictate-telemetry.internalNOT CONTACTED

0

bytes uploaded

100%

processed on-device

0

third parties

OFFLINE · VERIFIED

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Private by design

Dictate

AUTO-TRANSLATE · 100+ LANGUAGES

Speak any language.
Type in another.

Dictate in Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, or 97 more languages — and watch your text appear in English. Or any pair you pick.

🇪🇸

Spanishes-ES· AUTO-DETECTED

Reunión movida al jueves. Mandaré la agenda.

🇯🇵

Japaneseja-JP

明日のプレゼンの資料を確認してもらえますか？

🇩🇪

Germande-DE

Der Prototyp läuft. Feedback bis Freitag bitte.

TRANSLATE

→ English

notes — team-updates.md

TRANSLATING

## Team updates

🇪🇸

Meeting moved to Thursday. I'll send the agenda.

🇯🇵

Can you review the slides for tomorrow's presentation?

🇩🇪

The prototype is running. Feedback by Friday please.

Source: Auto-detect

Target: English (US)

00:18

100+ supported

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇨🇳🇰🇷🇷🇺🇵🇹🇳🇱🇵🇱🇹🇷🇦🇪🇮🇳🇮🇩🇻🇳🇸🇪🇳🇴🇫🇮🇩🇰🇬🇷🇨🇿🇺🇦🇭🇺🇹🇭🇭🇰🇮🇱🇷🇴+ 70 more

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Auto-translate

Dictate

SYSTEM-WIDE · ANY TEXT FIELD

Works in
every app
you already use.

Slack, Mail, Notes, Figma, your browser, your IDE — if you can type there, you can dictate there. No plugins. No copy-paste. Just press and speak.

Slack

Mail

Notes

Figma

Safari

Chrome

VS Code

Linear

Notion

Messages

Xcode

+ any app

Slack · #design

M

Maya Chen10:22

Prototype review at 3? I'll bring the new pricing flow.

D

Dev10:24

Works for me. @james can you share the figma beforehand?

Y

You10:25

Sure — sending it now. I'll annotate the onboarding screens with open questions before the meeting.

00:06Release⌃⌥

Mail — New Message

To:sarah@forge.dev

Subject:Q2 roadmap — thoughts before Monday

Hey Sarah,

I went through the deck you sent — the shift to async reviews will save us at least a day per sprint. A couple of questions before the all-hands

00:12Release⌃⌥

Figma — Comments

Comments · 3

Priya · 2m

Love this direction. Can we try it with the accent at 24?

You · typing…

Totally. Pushing a variant with the tighter spacing now

00:03Release⌃⌥

Safari — arc.net

best ergonomic keyboard for mac 2026 with mechanical switches

00:02Release⌃⌥

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Works in every app

Dictate

FOR ENGINEERS · TERMINAL · VIM · IDE

Dictate in
$ the_terminal

Write commit messages, docstrings, PR descriptions and even shell commands — without leaving your hands on the keyboard. Works in every TTY, vim, tmux, and your IDE of choice.

whisper.py

core_ml.swift

COMMIT_EDITMSG

38# Engine entry — called by HotkeyManager on key-release

39from core_ml import NeuralEngine

40

41@dataclass

42def transcribe(audio: np.ndarray) -> str:

43 """

44 Run Whisper locally. Accepts mono float32 PCM sampled at 16 kHz.

45 Returns plain text with punctuation. Never touches the network —

46 all inference runs on Apple's Neural Engine via Core ML.

47 """

48

49 if audio.size == 0:

50 return ""

51

52 engine = NeuralEngine.load("whisper-large-v3")

53 return engine.infer(audio, language="auto")

54

55# ✓ runs locally · ✓ no cloud · ✓ no telemetry

zsh — ~/dev/dictate — 120×32

DICTATING

~ ~/dev/dictate ❯ git status

On branch main

Changes not staged for commit:

modified: src/engine/whisper.py

modified: src/engine/core_ml.swift

modified: src/hotkey/manager.swift

~ ~/dev/dictate ❯ git diff --stat

src/engine/whisper.py | 42 ++++++++++++----

src/engine/core_ml.swift | 88 +++++++++++++++++++

3 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

~ ~/dev/dictate ❯ git commit -m "move inference to Neural Engine, drop CPU fallback on M-series"

00:11Release⌃⌥

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Built for developers

Dictate

ZERO SETUP · ZERO FRICTION

One hotkey.
Press. Speak. Done.

⌃

Control

+

⌥

Option

+

Space

Spacebar

Press & hold

Speak naturally

Text appears

3×

faster than typing

average 160 WPM dictated vs 50 WPM typed. Keep your flow.

1

step to install

Drag to Applications. Grant mic access. Done.

Menu Bar · always one click away

Listening…

Release to transcribe

PRO

Auto-translate

Source: auto-detect

Hotkey

⌃⌥Space

This week

2h 47m saved

Dictations

127

That's the whole UI. No dashboards. No settings to decode.

Private by default. Fast by design. Yours alone.

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Press. Speak. Done.

01Privacy

Your voice never leaves this Mac.

Whisper runs locally on Apple Silicon's Neural Engine. No cloud, no account, no telemetry — verifiable from your firewall.

02Translate

Speak any language. Type the one you need.

Talk in Russian, Spanish, Japanese — text appears in English. 100+ languages, any pair you choose.

03Everywhere

Works in every app — even in the terminal.

Slack, Mail, Notes, Figma, Safari, VS Code, Linear, Notion, Vim, tmux. Anywhere you can type.

04Developer

Built for power users.

Custom hotkeys, custom prompts, clipboard handoff, dictation history, export.

05Simplicity

One key. Hold. Speak. Release.

No menus, no setup. Install, press the hotkey, talk, release — your text is in.

THE DIFFERENCE

Dictate vs cloud dictation

Same words. Very different deal for your voice.

	Dictate	Cloud dictation
Audio leaves your device	✗ Never	✓ Always
Account / sign-up required	✗ Never	✓ Yes
Works offline	✓ Yes	✗ No
Telemetry / analytics	✗ Zero	✓ Tracks usage
Apple Silicon optimized	✓ Neural Engine	✗ Server-side
Latency	✓ ~200 ms	✗ 1–3 s round-trip
Languages	✓ 100+	✓ varies
Price	✓ $2.99 /mo · $59.99 lifetime	✗ $10–25 /mo

PRICING

Try free. Pay if you love it.

Download the app, dictate as much as you want during the trial, then unlock from inside the app.

Monthly

$2.99

/month

Unlock everything. Cancel anytime.

✓ Unlimited dictation
✓ All 100+ languages
✓ Auto-translate
✓ Custom hotkeys
✓ Email support

Download

Choose your plan inside the app · Secured by Lemon Squeezy · 14-day refund

Best value

Yearly

$29.99

/year

Best value. Save ~17% vs monthly.

✓ Everything in Monthly
✓ Priority support
✓ Early access to new models
✓ Free major updates

Download

Choose your plan inside the app · Secured by Lemon Squeezy · 14-day refund

Lifetime

$59.99

once

Pay once. Use forever.

✓ Everything in Yearly
✓ All future updates
✓ Personal license
✓ No subscription

Download

Choose your plan inside the app · Secured by Lemon Squeezy · 14-day refund

THEY USE IT DAILY

Quietly faster than typing.

“I stopped typing emails. I just hold the key and talk. My output literally doubled in a week.”

MR

Maya R.

Founder, indie SaaS

“The only dictation app that doesn't feel like surveillance. Offline, fast, and it nails commit messages.”

DK

Daniel K.

Senior engineer

“I write English emails by speaking Japanese. It's genuinely magical — and nothing leaves my Mac.”

AT

Aiko T.

Designer

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Never. Audio is processed entirely on your Mac using Whisper running on Apple Silicon's Neural Engine. There is no server, no account, and no telemetry — verifiable by checking your firewall.

Yes. Download the DMG, install, and use it free during the trial. When you're ready, unlock from inside the app.

Some of the system-wide text-insertion features Dictate relies on aren't compatible with App Store sandboxing. Distributing directly lets us keep the experience pixel-perfect — and your privacy untouched.

Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) running macOS 14 Sonoma and above. Intel Macs are not supported.

Yes — 100+ languages. Auto-translate is built in: speak Spanish, type English. Or any pair you pick.

14-day no-questions-asked. Use the Lemon Squeezy customer portal linked in your receipt.

Type with your voice. Today.

Free download. Unlock from $2.99 when you're ready. Your voice never leaves your Mac.

Download for Mac · Free

Built for speed. Wired for privacy.

100% on-device

Press. Speak. Done.

100+ languages

Works in every app

Even in the terminal

3× faster than typing

Five things that make Dictate different.

Your voice.Your Mac.Nothing leaves.

Your voice never leaves this Mac.

Speak any language. Type the one you need.

Works in every app — even in the terminal.

Built for power users.

One key. Hold. Speak. Release.

Dictate vs cloud dictation

Try free. Pay if you love it.

Quietly faster than typing.

Questions, answered.

Type with your voice. Today.

Your voice.
Your Mac.
Nothing leaves.