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Dictation

Don't type.

Just speak.

Voice-to-text that lives in a hotkey. Press it anywhere, speak, and clean text appears at your cursor — with cleanup, snippets, and your choice of model.

Download for Mac
Any text field, any app

Speak anywhere you type

Hit the hotkey, speak, and clean text lands at your cursor — no integration, no API. If it accepts text, the Recorder writes into it.

SlackWorks natively
GmailWorks natively
NotionWorks natively
LinearWorks natively
FigmaWorks natively
VS CodeWorks natively
CursorWorks natively
TerminalWorks natively
MessagesWorks natively
SafariWorks natively

And thousands more — dictation pastes as keystrokes into the focused field.

What's inside

Faster than typing. Cleaner than talking.

Global hotkey

Hold, tap, or double-tap to dictate. Works in any text field, across any app, with smoother behavior and fewer accidental triggers.

Dictation Bar and Notch

A compact dictation bar and a notch-mounted UI show live transcription without getting in your way. Both stay reliable on long sessions.

Cleanup on the fly

Optional cleanup removes fillers, tidies punctuation, and breaks paragraphs naturally. Give it extra instructions to match your voice.

Snippets mode

Capture quick dictation clips into a snippets library you can browse, copy, and reuse. Perfect for the phrases you repeat all day.

Pick your model

Apple Foundation, local Whisper, Parakeet, Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, or BuildBetter — use whichever cleaner and transcriber you prefer.

Auto-paste

Finish speaking and your text lands at the cursor. Clear guidance shows up when permissions or the app path prevent auto-paste.

Multilingual

Use the transcription engine that fits your language. The app flags English-only Whisper models so you pick a compatible multilingual one.

Local-first privacy

Run entirely offline if you want. Cloud providers are opt-in and scoped to the ones you choose.

Bring your own engine

Pick your transcription and cleanup

Whisper, Parakeet, Apple Intelligence, Groq, Deepgram, BuildBetter — or your own cleaner running on OpenAI, Anthropic, or Ollama.

Part of a bigger toolkit

Dictation ships alongside Meeting Recorder and Screen Recording in the same app.

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