Voice to text for macOS

You talk. It types.

Hold the fn key and say it. Release, and your words are already pasted where your cursor is — in any app, transcribed on your Mac.

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Free & open source · MIT · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon (M1 or later)

Hold the key — or your space bar — and speak

Live demo — your browser's speech engine, your mic. The app itself runs Whisper on your Mac.

Works in Slack✦Mail✦Notes✦VS Code✦Safari✦Notion✦Figma✦Terminal✦Messages✦Chrome✦Obsidian✦Anywhere you can type✦

How it works

One key. Three beats.

  1. 01

    Hold fn

    Recording starts the instant you press. No window to open, no app to switch to — a small capsule appears so you know it's listening.

  2. 02

    Speak

    Say it the way you'd say it to a person. Ramble, pause, restart mid-sentence — Whisper sorts it out.

  3. 03

    Release

    Your words are transcribed and pasted at your cursor before you've reached for the keyboard. Your clipboard is restored like nothing happened.

0 words per minute — you, speaking
0 words per minute — you, typing
3× faster, every message you send

Features

Built to disappear
into your Mac.

Private by default

Transcription runs on your Mac with local Whisper models on the Metal GPU. Your voice is never uploaded, never stored where you can't see it. Airplane mode is a supported configuration.

Or go fast with cloud

Flip one setting to transcribe with Groq when you want long recordings back in under a second.

Pastes at your cursor

No copy-paste dance. Text lands exactly where you were typing, and your clipboard is snapshotted and restored.

Works in every app

Slack, Mail, your editor, that CRM you hate. If a cursor blinks in it, Linty types in it.

Lives in the menu bar

No dock icon, no clutter. A capsule fades in while you speak and gets out of the way when you stop.

Everything you said, kept

Every transcription is saved to a local history — search it, copy it again, or clear it. It's your data, on your disk, in plain JSON.

Your voice never leaves your Mac.

Local Whisper runs on Apple Silicon. No account, no telemetry on your speech, no audio on anyone's server — unless you deliberately choose cloud mode. The code is open; read it yourself.

Stop typing
everything.

Download for macOS

Free forever for local transcription · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon (M1 or later)