A quiet menu-bar app that turns your voice into text anywhere on your Mac. Hold the right Option key, speak, release — the transcription lands in whatever you were typing in. Works with your own API keys. No accounts, no lock-in.
Universal build · Apple-notarized · Auto-updates · Apple Silicon + Intel
No launcher, no UI gymnastics. Live in the menu bar, summoned by a hotkey.
Press and hold the right Option key from anywhere — Slack, a Doc, your terminal, an email reply.
Say what you want to write. A discreet overlay shows you it's recording. Release when done.
Your words appear at the cursor, transcribed and optionally cleaned up by an LLM. That's it.
Whisper-large-v3-turbo on Groq gives real-time transcription. A two-sentence reply is ready before you've reached for the keyboard.
Optional LLM pass cleans up filler words, adds punctuation, and formats lists. Toggle it per-session.
Your last 500 transcripts, searchable, stored locally. Nothing synced, nothing uploaded.
No dock icon, no windows you have to close. A tiny overlay while recording, then silence.
Any app that accepts text: browsers, editors, chat, Figma, the terminal. It pastes into the focused field.
Signed by Apple, shipped as a universal DMG. New versions install silently on the next relaunch.
Voice never touches a server we operate. There's no sign-up, no subscription, no telemetry, no "free tier" meant to trap you. Paste your own API key in Settings and the audio goes directly from your Mac to the provider you chose.
Switch providers in Settings and restart. Nothing migrates, because nothing was ever stored with us.
There's no backend. You download the app, point it at a provider, and it works. That's the whole onboarding.
Audio is sent to your chosen provider and discarded. Transcripts live locally on your disk, where you can inspect them.
Groq, Sarvam, OpenAI — pick whichever fits your latency, language, and budget. Add more as they're released.
Most dictation tools are trained on American English. When you speak Hinglish in a Bangalore café or dictate an email in Tamil, they choke. Voice ships with first-class support for Sarvam AI — built in India, trained on Indian speech — so you can dictate in the language you actually think in.
Spoken:
"Yaar, meeting ko thoda reschedule kar do. Client ka call aa gaya hai at five thirty."
Transcribed:
Yaar, meeting ko thoda reschedule kar do. Client ka call aa gaya hai at 5:30.
~/Library/Application Support/voice/)Universal macOS build, notarized by Apple. Works on Apple Silicon and Intel.
Download voice-1.0.0-beta.1.dmgAfter installing, grant Accessibility + Microphone when prompted. First paste will ask for Automation access — click Allow.