v0.8.3 preview now available

Speak. It types.

Hold a shortcut, talk, release. Clean, punctuated text appears in whatever app you’re using. Free forever — no account, no cloud, no word limits.

Download for macOS

v0.8.3 Preview · 6.4 MB · macOS 15+ · Apple Silicon

Talk and Type — Home

Meeting transcript · your cursor

Morning team — the draft is ready for review. Three points before we ship: confirm the launch date, a final read of the release notes, and update the changelog

Ready to transcribeOn-device

Local engine

Neural Engine

Under a second · on-device

Signature command

⌥Space

Press to talk, release to type.

Listening…

Hold ⌥ Space · speak · release

Security

On-device

Audio never leaves your Mac

Identity

No account

No login, ever

Access

Free forever

No caps, no expiring trial

Formats

Open

Everything exports as markdown

How it works

Three moves. No new habits.

⌥ Space

Hold

A keyboard shortcut or a mouse side button — you choose it in setup.

Speak

Naturally — ums, pauses and half-thoughts included. A small pill shows it’s listening.

Text inserted

Release

Tidied, punctuated text lands at your cursor in under a second.

See how it works

Nothing to upload.
Nothing to leak.

Talk and Type processes your speech entirely on your Mac. Your voice never leaves your machine, and your words never touch a cloud server. It’s privacy by architecture, not by policy.

Works offline after one model download
No telemetry, no analytics
History stays local — export or clear it

Read the privacy policy

Your Mac only

MicNeural EngineYour doc

Cleans up after you

Fillers removed, punctuation and capitalisation handled, spoken lists become real lists — every rule a toggle, and it never rewrites your meaning.

“hey john um can you send me that file by five pm thanks talk soon”

“Hey John, can you send me that file by 5 pm? Thanks — talk soon.”

It knows your words

Names, products, technical terms — spelt right every time, from a dictionary that lives on your Mac.

Your namesYour jargonYour snippets

Works everywhere

Slack, mail, docs, code editors — every text field on your Mac, even the terminal. It lands at your cursor, every time.

Your history, exportable

Every dictation kept on your Mac — searchable, re-pasteable, deletable. One click turns any of it into clean markdown for your notes app, your repo, or your AI of choice.

Explore all features

Start free — stay free. Forever.

The core app is free for good. No word caps, no trial that expires, no free-plan tricks. Just your voice.

Download Talk and Type See what’s included

Coming soon

Talk and Type for iPhone — meetings, captured.

A different product, same family: record the room and catch the thought, entirely on your iPhone.

Have a look →

Questions

The short answers

›Which Macs does it run on?

Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 15 or later. The download is about 5 MB; on first run it fetches an on-device speech model (roughly 1 GB) once.

›Is it really free?

Yes. The core app is free forever — no word caps, no trial that expires, no tricks. Optional paid extras may come later, but the free app stays free.

›Why does it ask for Accessibility and Microphone permissions?

The microphone is how it hears you; Accessibility is macOS's name for apps that type on your behalf. One to listen, one to type — that's all.

›Does anything go to the cloud?

No. Transcription happens on your Mac's Neural Engine. There's no server because there's nothing to send.

›Does it update itself?

Auto-updates are coming. Preview builds are replaced manually for now — grab the newest version from this site.