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Free and open source · MIT licensed · no subscription

Hold a key. Speak.
Your words appear — in any app.

VoiceApp is push-to-talk dictation for your Mac. Talk while you hold your hotkey, release, and the text types itself where your cursor is — editor, browser, chat, terminal. Free and open source, with no time limits or activation keys.

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macOS · Apple Silicon · free and open source

Your voice, your rules

Runs 100% locally.
Or bring your own AI.

Most dictation apps make the choice for you — and charge rent for it. VoiceApp gives you both engines and a switch.

On-device

Local models

NVIDIA Parakeet and OpenAI Whisper run directly on your Mac, accelerated by Apple Metal. Your audio never leaves the machine.

  • Completely private — nothing to send, nothing to leak
  • No account, no subscription, no internet required
  • Transcribes seconds of speech in ~100 ms on Apple Silicon
  • 90+ languages with Whisper models

Bring your own key

Cloud AI

Flip one switch and dictate through frontier models — Grok (xAI), OpenAI, or anything on OpenRouter — using your own API key.

  • Frontier-model accuracy on names, jargon, accents
  • Your key, your account — fractions of a cent per dictation
  • Built-in connection test so you know it works
  • The overlay shows a cloud icon whenever it's in use

Built for daily dictation

Small app. Sharp edges filed off.

Push-to-talk, any key

Bind a chord or a single modifier — even bare ⌃. Hold to dictate, release to type. Hands-free toggle too.

Types into every app

Not a floating notepad you copy from. The words land at your cursor — Slack, Xcode, Gmail, a terminal.

Live voice pulse

A glowing trace pulses from the center as you speak, so you always know you're being heard.

Custom vocabulary

Teach it product names, people, jargon. Both engines bias recognition toward your words.

History with audio

Every dictation saved locally with its recording. Re-transcribe any of them with a better model later.

Signed auto-updates

Install once. New versions arrive on their own, cryptographically verified before they touch your Mac.

At home on macOS

Every setting where you'd expect it.

A native menu-bar app — no Electron, ~19 MB. Dark, quick, and quiet until you hold the key.

Free and open source

Stop typing what you could just say.

⬇ Download VoiceApp View Source on GitHub

macOS · Apple Silicon · updates itself · free and open source · no activation required