Dictation for macOS · runs with no network

It learns the words nobody else can spell.

Tap Right Option anywhere on your Mac and talk. Every take teaches it the names, tools and jargon you actually use, so the word you said is the word that lands — a faithful transcript, not a tidier paraphrase of you.

Account first, then download for Mac — free to start. Already have one? Sign in.

Cursor — your agent ⌥ Right Option
Listening

okay so the probe was way slower on Python, let's ship the tmux pane fix tomorrow

heard probe, not "the Pro" corrected in 1.4s on device

Requires macOS 26 on Apple silicon. There is an iPhone app in beta, and it inherits what your Mac has already learned.

How it learns

Most dictation forgets you the moment it types.

Every engine gets better at what it can hear from the audio in front of it. None of them gets better at knowing what your project is called, or how your colleague spells their name. That part was never the model's job, and it is the whole of ours.

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What your agents write back

You say a tool's name out loud; only the thing you are talking to ever writes it down correctly. Their replies are your own vocabulary, spelled once, and that is where the spelling comes from.

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What is on your screen

The document, the terminal, the name in the sidebar — read at the moment you press the key, matched only against words you have used before. Never free text, never sent anywhere.

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Every correction you make

Fix a word after it lands and it comes back as a suggestion, not as a silent change. You decide what becomes part of your vocabulary.

Those words go to the engine while you are still speaking — something you say in the first sentence can change what is recognised in the third. None of it is a setting you have to find.

Day one

let's ship the tea marks pain fix

It knows nothing about you yet, so it performs like everything else. We would rather say that than pretend otherwise.

Day seven

let's ship the tmux pain fix

Your own words have started arriving. The terms you repeat are the first to stick, because they are the ones you keep proving matter.

Day thirty

let's ship the tmux pane fix

The vocabulary is yours now, and it is the reason to stay. Nobody can copy it, because nobody else has your history.

Hard words

On the words that actually break dictation.

Not average accuracy on easy prose, where everything already scores well. This is how often the terms that matter — names, tools, clinical and legal vocabulary — come back correct.

94%
of hard words recognised with your own vocabulary supplied
77 targets · 98 opportunities · 15 recorded passages
35%
the same words, same audio, through the Mac's built-in dictation
a different engine AND no vocabulary — the gap a subscriber closes, not vocabulary alone
100%
legal terminology, which we have never trained on
clinical 95% · your own vocabulary 92% · platform 91%

One speaker, one Mac, measured on real recordings rather than a benchmark set. The 94 and the 35 differ in engine as well as in vocabulary; we do not claim the whole gap is vocabulary. We publish the basis with the number because a number without one is a marketing line.

Where it falls down

The parts we have not solved.

Everyone publishes a number. Almost nobody publishes the conditions it was taken under, or the cases they lose. Here are ours.

Initialisms said as letters

Spell something out loud and it will not reliably come back as the acronym. We have no mechanism that reaches this yet.

The right word, the wrong shape

About a third of hard words are heard correctly and then split or joined wrongly. Recognised, not yet written the way you write it.

That 94% is hard words, not everything

Measured end to end on read technical prose, word error rate was 10.8%. The number above is recall on the terms that matter, and we will not quote it as overall accuracy.

Day one is ordinary

It has none of your vocabulary yet. The compounding needs a few days of real use, which is exactly why the trial is not a word count.

Setup

Three steps, then never again.

STEP 01

Create an account, then download

One notarized DMG. No model to choose, no key to paste, nothing to download afterwards.

STEP 02

Grant three permissions

Microphone, speech recognition and accessibility. That is the whole of setup, and it takes under a minute.

STEP 03

Put the cursor anywhere and talk

Editor, browser, terminal, notes, your agent. Tap the key, speak, tap again. Your words land where the cursor is.

Pricing

One price. Cancel whenever.

$15per month

Free to start, with limits. Not a word count and not a countdown — you subscribe once your own vocabulary is landing, and the app can show you the moment that happened.

  • Unlimited dictation on every Mac you own
  • Your vocabulary follows you to the iPhone app
  • Every take stays on your Mac, searchable and yours
  • Your data is yours. We never pool it with anyone else's
  • Cancel in one click, keep everything it learned
Create your free account
Questions

Before you download.

Does my voice go to a server?
No. Recognition runs entirely on your Mac. There is no cloud speech path to switch off, which is also why it keeps working on a plane or with no network at all.
How is this different from the dictation already built into my Mac?
We build on Apple's on-device engine — it is genuinely good. What it cannot do is know your colleague's name or your tool's name. We hand those words to the engine while you speak. On ordinary prose the difference is small; on your own vocabulary it is the difference between the two numbers above.
Why do I need an account before downloading?
So we know who is using it, and so your vocabulary has somewhere to live that survives a new Mac. The app authenticates once; after that it works offline.
Does it clean up my ums and false starts?
Only if you ask it to. There is a verbatim mode and a cleaned mode, and verbatim is the default, because a wrong word costs you more than an untidy one.
What happens to my recordings?
They stay on your Mac, searchable, and you can delete any of them. Syncing to your other devices is a choice you make. Your data is yours; we never pool it.
Do I have to pick a model?
No. That is chosen from measurements on your own voice, and the app will show you what was picked and why whenever you are curious.
Is there an iPhone app?
Yes, in beta. It shares your account, so the vocabulary your Mac has earned is already there. The Mac is where the product is deepest.