Text while you talk
Words are typed into your document as they are recognised: not into a preview bubble, not when you let go. You catch a misheard word mid-sentence.
Free dictation app for Mac You speak. It types.
Hold ⌥Space and talk. Words appear in any app as you speak, cleaned up on your Mac when you let go.
Download free
No account · macOS 26 or later · Apple Silicon
Mia · 9:41
Are we still on for Tuesday?
Are we still on for Tuesday?
I think we should move the launch to Thursday. The build isn't ready yet.
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Dictation in any Mac app: hold, talk, let go.
No window to open, no field to click first. WunderWhisper types into whatever app has the cursor: Mail, Slack, Notes, Cursor, a browser tab.
Step 01
Hold ⌥Space.
Rebind it if you like. For long dictation, set a Start/Stop key: press once to start, again to stop. Works with remotes and foot pedals.
⌥Space
Step 02
Talk.
Words appear in the app as you say them, so you see what was heard before you finish the thought.
so the plan for Tuesday is
Step 03
Let go.
On-device AI drops the ums and repeats, fixes punctuation, and swaps the clean version in place.
um so the the plan is ↓ So the plan is
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Speech to text that keeps your words.
Speech recognition runs on your Mac with Apple’s on-device model. The audio never leaves it.
Any app
Types where the cursor is, through the macOS Accessibility API. Mail, Slack, Notes, Chrome, Cursor, VS Code.
On-device cleanup
A small AI model on your Mac removes filler words and stutters and fixes punctuation. No API key, no internet after the one-time download.
Never flips a “not”
If the cleanup adds or drops a negation, it is thrown away and your own words stay. Losing polish is better than losing meaning.
Only edits what it typed
The clean version replaces your dictation only if that exact text is still right before the cursor. Otherwise nothing is touched, and Copy Last Dictation has it.
Hold or toggle
Hold ⌥Space for quick notes, or press a Start/Stop key for long dictation, up to 30 minutes. Remotes and foot pedals work too.
Cancel or stop
A small pill at the bottom of the screen shows the waveform. ✕ removes what was typed, ■ ends the dictation.
Tells you when it can’t hear
If your microphone sends no sound at all (muted, wrong input), the dictation stops after 3 seconds and names the mic.
Free. No cap.
All of dictation is free: no word limit, no account, no trial clock. It costs us nothing to run, so it costs you nothing.
03 — Pro
AI meeting notes on your Mac, without a bot.
Press Record in the menu bar before a call. WunderWhisper writes the transcript while you talk and the notes when you hang up. Nobody sees a recorder join.
- No bot joins the call — it records your microphone and the call audio on your Mac. Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack huddles, anything that plays sound.
- Live transcript — follow along while the call runs; your side is labelled “Me”.
- Speaker labels — after the call, an on-device model tells the other voices apart: Speaker 1, Speaker 2…
- Notes that hold up — summary, decisions, action items with owners, open questions. Written by the same on-device model.
- No echo of the call — without headphones your mic hears the call too; that echo is dropped from the transcript, apart from the odd one- or two-word phrase.
- Built not to lose anything — the transcript is saved line by line as it arrives and the audio survives a crash. An interrupted meeting can be processed again.
Live answers experimental
When the other side finishes a question, a small panel suggests a reply from what was said and your notes. Needs a cloud AI provider; off by default.
When the other side finishes a question, a small panel suggests a reply from what was said and your notes. Needs a cloud AI provider; off by default.
Get Pro — $29 once
First 3 meetings free in the app
Pricing sync 24 min · 3 speakers
- Me
Let’s start with the pricing page. 00:12
- Speaker 1
I’d keep the free tier. We shouldn’t cap words. 00:18
- Speaker 2
Agreed. Can we ship it by Thursday? 00:26
- Me
Thursday works if Lena reviews the copy. 00:31
AI notes · on-device
Summary
Pricing page ships with an uncapped free tier.
Decisions
No word cap on the free tier.
Action items
- [ ] Lena: review the copy
Open questions
Does Thursday hold if the review slips?
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On-device AI cleanup, or your own key.
Speech-to-text always runs on your Mac. This choice is only about the model that cleans up dictation and writes meeting notes, and it only ever sees text. Switch any time.
On-Device
RecommendedThe model runs inside WunderWhisper on your Mac’s GPU. Nothing else to install.
- Zero setup — no extra app, no API key, no account
- Apple MLX — runs on your Mac’s GPU
- Four models — Qwen3 4B (default), Gemma 4 E4B, Qwen3.5 4B, Qwen3.5 9B
- Offline — after a one-time download from Hugging Face
Your words → Inside the app ↩ Cleaned
Default · one model for dictation and meetings
OpenAI
Your keyUse your own OpenAI account. Direct request, no middleman.
- GPT‑5.4 mini by default — or GPT‑5.4, 5.5, 5.6
- No relay server — Mac → api.openai.com
- Keychain‑stored key — never in plain text, never synced
- Usage-based — you pay OpenAI directly
Your words → Your Mac → OpenAI API ↩ Cleaned
OpenRouter
Multi-modelHundreds of models through one API key.
- Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral — most frontier models behind one key
- Pay-per-use — no monthly commitment
- No relay server — Mac → openrouter.ai
- Keychain‑stored key — encrypted at rest like every key
Your words → Your Mac → OpenRouter ↩ Cleaned
Custom endpoint
Any URLBring any provider or server that speaks the OpenAI API.
- OpenAI-compatible — any API that speaks the chat completions format
- Cheap and fast — e.g. DeepSeek for live answers
- Your own server — point it at a model you host
- Keychain‑stored key — if the endpoint needs one
Your words → Your Mac → Your endpoint ↩ Cleaned
05 — Private dictation.
Private dictation.
Your voice stays on your Mac.
The whole design of the app is a promise you can audit. Read the privacy policy → every network connection the app makes is listed there.
- Audio stays here. Speech recognition is Apple’s on-device model. Your voice is never uploaded, by us or anyone.
- No account. No sign-up, no email, no login. Download, grant the microphone, talk.
- No telemetry. No analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no usage tracking. The app never logs what you said.
- On-device AI by default. Cleanup and meeting notes run on your Mac’s GPU. Pick a cloud model and only text goes, straight to that provider with your key.
- Recordings are files you own. Meetings live in a folder on your Mac: audio, transcript and notes as Markdown. Delete them like any file.
- Few connections, all listed. Your chosen AI provider, the update check, model downloads, and Polar only if you enter a Pro key. That’s all.
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Free dictation. Meeting notes for $29, once.
No subscription. Pro is a one-time license key, and the app lets you record 3 meetings with every feature before you decide.
Free
Forever $ 0
- Hold-to-talk and Start/Stop dictation
- Text appears live in any app
- On-device AI cleanup, or your own OpenAI / OpenRouter key
- No word cap, no account, no time limit
Pro
One-time $ 29
- Everything in Free
- Meeting recording: your mic + the call audio, no bot
- Live transcript, speaker labels, AI notes
- Live answers (experimental, cloud AI)
- 3 Macs per license, all future updates
Buy Pro — $29 Paste the key in Settings → License. Meetings you recorded stay yours either way.
macOS 26 or later · Apple Silicon · Signed and notarized by Apple · Updates itself
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Mac dictation questions, answered.
Is dictation really free?
Yes. All of dictation is free with no word cap, no account and no time limit: hold-to-talk, Start/Stop, live typing and AI cleanup. Pro only adds meeting recording.
Does my voice leave my Mac?
No. Speech recognition runs on your Mac with Apple's on-device speech model. If you choose a cloud AI provider for cleanup or notes, only the text is sent, directly to that provider with your own key.
How is it different from the Dictation built into macOS?
WunderWhisper works the same way in every app, starts with a hold-to-talk hotkey, cleans up filler words and punctuation when you let go, and checks the cleanup never adds or drops a "not". Pro adds meeting recording with speaker labels and notes.
Does a bot join my meetings?
No. WunderWhisper records your microphone and the call audio on your Mac, so it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Slack huddles or any app that plays sound, and nobody sees a recorder join. Tell the people on the call you are recording.
What does Pro cost?
$29, once. One license key works on 3 Macs and includes all future updates. The app lets you record 3 meetings with every feature first, and meetings you recorded stay readable whether you buy or not.
Which Macs does it run on?
macOS 26 or later on Apple Silicon (M1 or newer). The on-device AI models run on the Mac's GPU.
Which languages work?
The languages Apple's on-device speech recognizer supports on macOS 26. You pick one language per session in Settings; Turkish isn't supported by Apple's recognizer yet.
Where are my meetings stored?
In a folder on your Mac (~/Library/Application Support/WunderWhisper/Meetings): the audio, the transcript and the notes as Markdown. Nothing is uploaded unless you pick a cloud AI provider, and then only text.
Why isn't it on the Mac App Store?
Typing into other apps goes through the macOS Accessibility API, which the App Store sandbox blocks. You download it from this site instead; it is signed and notarized by Apple and updates itself.
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Contact the WunderWhisper team
Have a question, feedback, or feature request? We’d love to hear from you.