TAKE DICTATIONComing soon

PRIVATE DICTATION FOR MAC

When typing asks too much,
just talk.

Take Dictation turns what you say into clean writing, right where you are already typing. Fast enough to stay with your thought. Quiet enough to stay out of your way.

See how it works Your words stay yours

Built for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later.

A SMALL, HUMAN MOMENTListening
YOUR WORDS, CLEANED UP

Private on this Mac…

Hold a key. Speak naturally. Let go. Keep going with your day.

01

YOUR THOUGHTS SHOULD NOT WAIT FOR YOUR HANDS

Say the thing while it is still alive.

The point is not to turn you into a power user. It is to make an email, a note, a message, or a page feel possible when a keyboard is not the easiest way in.

SPEED, WITHOUT THE HYPE

The pause after you finish talking should feel small.

~0.2s

Current internal median from key release to text insertion for a natural 30–40 word breath. Measured on-device, not a cross-product speed comparison.

FROM THE FOUNDER'S DESK

My writing-heavy work now moves 4.3× faster.

With Take Dictation in my normal workflow, I average roughly 173 words a minute across emails, notes, messages, and documents. That is about 4.3 times faster than I type those same tasks. Some passages are faster, some are slower.

Founder field note. A personal day-to-day result, not a controlled study or a promise of the same result for everyone.

ONE SIMPLE RHYTHM

From thought to text, in three quiet moves.

  1. ONE

    Hold the talk key.

    Use the key that feels most natural. Take Dictation lets you choose, then remembers.

  2. TWO

    Speak like yourself.

    Pause. Correct yourself. Finish a thought. Tidy handles the everyday cleanup.

  3. THREE

    Pick up where you left off.

    Your clean text appears at the cursor, so you can keep writing without changing your routine.

A PRIVATE PLACE TO THINK OUT LOUD

No account between you and your words.

Take Dictation is built around an uncomplicated promise: it does its dictation work on your Mac. Your audio and transcript do not need to take a trip somewhere else to become useful.

Read the plain-English privacy promise

LESS TO LEARN. MORE TO SAY.

The technology should feel like a courtesy.

Private by design

Your words stay with you.

Your dictation audio and transcript are processed on your Mac. No account. No cloud model. No one listening in.

Made for real life

No menu of a hundred choices.

Take Dictation starts with good defaults and clear words. The setup guides you through one permission at a time, then gets out of your way.

A careful finish

It cleans up, without taking over.

Tidy fixes punctuation and formatting while keeping your meaning. If an optional rewrite cannot be trusted, your safe Tidy text stays put.

IT LEARNS YOUR CONTEXT. LOCALLY.

For the words that only make sense in your world.

Turn on the optional Developer & AI Tools vocabulary when you need it. Then use My Words for the names, places, teams, and terms that matter to you. No account. No upload. Just a better next dictation.

01

Open My Words.

02

Tap what it heard.

03

Tell it your spelling.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

First, make sure your Mac is ready.

Take Dictation needs an Apple silicon Mac running macOS 26 or later. Check Apple menu → About This Mac before you install.

01

Apple silicon Mac

You need an M-series Mac. Intel Macs are not supported.

02

macOS 26 or later

Your Mac needs the latest supported operating system before Take Dictation can run.

03

Apple Intelligence is optional

It enables Rewrite. Standard dictation and Tidy work without it.

PLAIN ANSWERS

The questions people ask before they try.

What is Take Dictation?
Take Dictation is a Mac app that turns what you say into clean writing at the cursor. Hold a talk key, speak naturally, and keep going with your day.
Does my speech leave my Mac?
Dictation audio and transcript are processed on your Mac. No account and no cloud model are required for everyday dictation. The direct-download app may check a signed update feed; that check is not your dictation content.
What Mac do I need?
An Apple silicon Mac running macOS 26 or later. Intel Macs are not supported. Apple Intelligence is optional and only needed for Rewrite.
How is this different from the dictation already on my Mac?
Built-in Mac dictation gets words onto the page. Take Dictation is built around a quieter finish: Tidy cleans punctuation and formatting while keeping your meaning, and your text appears where you are already typing.
How much will it cost?
The planned price is $39 once for a household-shareable purchase, with a fully featured 14-day trial and no recurring bill. Public checkout is not open yet.
When can I buy or download it?
Purchase, licence delivery, and public download are being prepared. This site will be the place to buy when the first public release opens.

THE FIRST RELEASE IS ON ITS WAY

$39 once.
Yours at home.

One household-shareable purchase. A fully featured 14-day trial. No recurring bill waiting in the wings.

Purchase and download are being prepared for the public release, so there is no public checkout yet.

Meet Take Dictation