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.

Draft — follow-up.md

To: Sam

Subject: Project update

Hope your week is off to a good start. I was talking to Cheyenne earlier, but the reception was really bad — I think they're going to handle the first part of the project, but I'm not totally sure.

I also told the team the new timeline should be ready by Friday, although it might slip. Can you check in with them and see if the notes from yesterday's meeting were sent out?

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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.

NativeLocal

Apple Intelligence

On-device foundation models on macOS 26+. Zero setup, zero network.

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BYO .binLocal

whisper.cpp

Runs Whisper natively on your Mac. Pick a managed model, or drop your own .bin file — any Whisper-compatible model works.

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BYO GGUFLocal

llama.cpp

Drop any GGUF file (Llama, Qwen, Mistral, Phi, Gemma, DeepSeek — whatever you want) and run local chat and cleanup without a server.

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Parakeet

NVIDIA's fast on-device transcription engine. Models download and manage from inside the app.

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Ollama

Point the Recorder at your local Ollama server (OpenAI-compatible) and use any model you’ve pulled — Llama, Qwen, Mistral, DeepSeek, and more.

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Local

LM Studio

Point at your LM Studio OpenAI-compatible server for private local inference with a GUI model manager.

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Cloud

OpenAI

Bring your own key for GPT-4.1, GPT-5, and more via your own account.

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Cloud

Anthropic

BYO key for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus. Top-tier summaries and chat.

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Groq

Ultra-fast inference. BYO key for live transcription and chat.

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Deepgram

Low-latency cloud transcription with strong multi-speaker accuracy.

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First-partyCloud

BuildBetter

Sign in to use BuildBetter-hosted AI across transcription, chat, and cleanup.

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BYO cloud keys route traffic from your Mac directly to the provider — BuildBetter is never in the path. For local models, drop a .bin (whisper.cpp) or .gguf (llama.cpp) file and it just works.

Part of a bigger toolkit

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