Dictare listens, transcribes, and rewrites your words into clean prose — the instant you stop talking. Entirely on your Mac.
Every dictation tool makes you choose: accurate or private. Raw text or the cloud. Dictare is the only one that refuses.
Otter, cloud keyboards, meeting bots — every word rides to someone else's server. Great transcripts, zero privacy.
macOS dictation stays local, but hands you a wall of unpunctuated, filler-filled text. You still do the cleanup.
Local Whisper for the words, a local AI for the polish. Finished writing at your cursor — nothing ever leaves the Mac.
One global shortcut, from any app. No window to find, no button to click.
Speak naturally — rambles, fillers, false starts and all. A live HUD shows every word.
Let go, and polished prose lands right at your cursor. In Slack, Mail, code, anywhere.
Everything you need to turn talking into finished writing. It all runs on your Mac, so you get cloud-grade results without the cloud.
Speak at your own pace and Dictare keeps up, with accurate transcription in 9 languages the moment you install it. No download, no setup, no server to wait on.
Your ums, false starts, and repeats disappear, and rambling comes back as clean prose. Choose how far it goes, from a light tidy-up to a full rewrite, so it still sounds like you.
Turn a meeting or interview into a readable transcript with every speaker labeled, without handing a private conversation to anyone's servers.
Drop in a voice memo, a podcast, or an MP4 video and get the text back. A two-hour recording is as easy as a two-minute one, with no upload limits and no per-minute fees.
A live readout shows what Dictare hears as you talk, and it never steals focus from the app you're writing in.
Search and edit every transcript you've made, and let Dictare match its tone to each app on its own, casual in Slack and buttoned-up in Mail.
No account, no tracking, no cloud. Everything lives on your Mac, and you can erase all of it in a single click.
Transcription is table stakes. Watch what happens when a local AI editor gets the transcript.
um so basically i wanted to like follow up on the the pricing thing you know and see if we can sort of get it done by friday
I wanted to follow up on the pricing, and see if we can get it done by Friday.
Every word — spoken, transcribed, and rewritten — is processed on your Mac. Dictare makes no network calls during operation. There's nothing to opt out of, because there's nothing to send.
Accurate transcription and finished writing, without giving up your privacy. Nothing else checks every box.
| Cloud dictation | Dictare | Built-in dictation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runs 100% on-device | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI cleanup to finished prose | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Speaker separation | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Transcribe any file / any length | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Works fully offline | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| No account, no telemetry | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
Universal build · Apple Silicon & Intel · macOS 14+
Free. No account, no subscription, no cloud.