Press ⌥Space and just talk.
Talk. Let go. Your words appear wherever you type.
WhisperType is a native macOS dictation app powered by Whisper on the Apple Neural Engine. It transcribes natural speech, parses filler words and punctuation, and types directly into any text field with zero cloud latency. No subscriptions, no accounts, and your voice never leaves your Mac.
macOS 14+ · free for 10 min of speech a day · one-time $24.99 to remove the limit · Apple Silicon · 100% offline
From speech to clean writing
Speak the way you think. WhisperType cleans it up.
Human speech is messy — filled with "um"s, false starts, and mid-sentence corrections. Whisper parses natural cadence, strips verbal clutter, and inserts proper punctuation.
Dictate anywhere on your Mac
Your voice, typed — instantly and privately.
One global hotkey, a floating meter so you always know it's listening, and text that lands in whatever field has focus — Notes, Mail, Safari, iMessage, your code editor.
One global hotkey
Press ⌥ Space anywhere to start, press it again to stop and insert. Prefer holding? Switch to push-to-talk in the Control Panel.
A mic button that follows you
Rather click than remember a shortcut? Switch on the floating mic button and a round mic sits above every app, on every Space. Click to start, click to stop — and drag it wherever it suits you. It stays there next time.
On-device Whisper
Whisper speech models run locally on the Apple Neural Engine — accurate with pauses, accents and technical words, and fast on Apple Silicon.
Types into any field
The transcription is pasted into the focused app, then your previous clipboard is restored — dictation never quietly overwrites what you copied.
Floating HUD & live preview
A borderless meter breezes in under the menu bar and shows a rough draft of your words as you speak, from macOS’s on-device recogniser. Then Whisper writes the real thing.
Auto-stop on silence
Stop talking and WhisperType stops on its own after a timeout you set (1–10s). Or press esc anytime to throw the audio away without inserting.
Pick your model
From Tiny for quick notes to Large v3 for long-form accuracy — swap models anytime and manage what’s on disk from the Models panel.
Push-to-talk & audio cues
Tap to start and stop, or hold to speak like a walkie-talkie. A subtle chime confirms text landed without pulling your eyes off your work.
Studio Dashboard
A dedicated floating Studio window to monitor microphone input levels, switch Whisper models on the fly, and view live transcription status.
100-Item Dictation History
Never lose a thought. Search your 100 most recent transcriptions in the Studio dashboard, with timestamps, word counts and one-click copy.
Memory & RAM Control
Keep your model warm in unified memory for zero-lag hotkey triggering, or click Unload Model in the Control Panel to immediately free system RAM.
Never saved to disk
Your speech lives in RAM only while transcribing and disappears the moment it’s typed. A discreet menu bar dot shows when the mic is listening.
On-device AI cleanup
Filler words, stutters and stray punctuation removed automatically. Turn on AI cleanup and Apple’s on-device model rewrites your dictation for the app you’re in — still without a single byte leaving your Mac.
Custom vocabulary
Teach it the names, jargon and spellings it keeps getting wrong. Your word list is fed to Whisper before it transcribes, so colleagues’ names and product terms come out right the first time.
Dictate in your language
Pick from the full set of languages Whisper supports, or let it detect automatically. The multilingual Large models handle accents and code-switching without a cloud service in sight.
Per-app modes
An email in Mail, a one-liner in Slack, literal text in Terminal. WhisperType notices which app you started dictating into and writes to suit it.
Choose your microphone
Record through a headset without changing your Mac’s input device for every other app. Unplug it and WhisperType quietly falls back to the default.
Know what you saved
Words dictated, sessions, time spent speaking and an estimate of the typing time you got back — all counted on your Mac, sent nowhere.
It types where you're already typing.
No separate window to copy out of. When a transcription is ready, WhisperType puts it into whatever field currently has focus — then quietly restores your clipboard so nothing you copied is lost.
- ✓Inserts into any app — Notes, Mail, Safari, iMessage, Slack, your editor.
- ✓Copies the text, pastes it with ⌘V, then restores your previous clipboard.
- ✓Prefer to paste yourself? Turn auto-paste off — the text just waits on your clipboard.
- ✓Press esc while recording or transcribing to cancel and insert nothing.
The AI model lives on your Mac.
WhisperType downloads a Whisper model once, then runs it entirely offline on the GPU and Neural Engine — so transcription is fast, private, and works on a plane. Pick the size that fits your Mac and your work.
- ✓Choose from Tiny → Large v3 — trade speed for accuracy, and switch anytime.
- ✓Runs on the Apple Neural Engine, keeping the CPU cool and the battery happy.
- ✓One-time download; after that everything works fully offline.
- ✓See what's on disk and reclaim space from the Models panel.
- ✓Download and load are reported separately, each with its own percentage — you always know which one you're waiting on.
Silicon-accelerated performance
How fast is local Whisper on Apple Silicon?
By compiling Whisper weights directly for the Apple Neural Engine via WhisperKit, WhisperType delivers real-time voice transcription without touching the cloud.
Three keys and your voice
Press → Speak → It's typed.
No windows to manage, nothing to copy and paste. WhisperType always tells you what it's doing — with the menu-bar icon, a status dot, and the floating meter.
Press ⌥ Space
From any app — or click the floating mic button, if you'd rather not reach for the keyboard. A floating meter breezes in under the menu bar so you know it's listening.
Speak
Talk naturally. WhisperType handles pauses and accents, and auto-stops after a beat of silence — or stop it yourself.
It's typed
Whisper transcribes on-device and the text lands in the focused field. A subtle sound tells you it's in.
Honest value
WhisperType vs. Cloud Dictation Subscriptions.
Most modern dictation tools trap your voice behind a $10–$20/month recurring subscription and stream your private thoughts to remote cloud servers. Here is the math:
| Feature / Cost | WhisperType | Cloud Dictation Tools (Superwhisper / Otter / Dragon) |
|---|---|---|
| Cost: Year 1 | $24.99 one-time | $120.00 – $240.00 / year |
| Cost: 3 Years | $24.99 total | $360.00 – $720.00 total |
| Where your audio goes | ✓ In-RAM on your Mac only Never saved to disk, 0 KB egress |
Uploaded to cloud servers Stored & processed remotely |
| Offline capability | ✓ 100% Offline Airplanes, trains, Wi-Fi outages |
Requires constant internet Breaks when connection drops |
| Account requirement | ✓ Zero account, zero sign-in | Mandatory account, email, and billing profile |
| If you never pay | ✓ 10 minutes of dictation a day, forever Every feature still on. Counts speech, not time the app is open. |
Trial expires, then it stops Or a few hundred cloud minutes a month behind an account |
Simple, honest pricing
Buy it once. Yours forever.
Free to keep using every day, forever. One flat price when you want the daily limit gone — no subscription, no account, and every future update included.
Free — forever
- ✓10 minutes of dictation a day, resetting at midnight
- ✓Every feature switched on — nothing is held back
- ✓All six Whisper models, Tiny → Large v3
- ✓No account, no card, no sign-in
- ✓Starts with a 14-day unlimited trial
- ✓Counts speech, not time with the app open
Only the audio you actually speak is counted, and only after the silence either side is trimmed off. Leave it running all day for free; a dictation you cancel costs nothing.
WhisperType
- ✓Unlimited on-device dictation, everywhere on your Mac
- ✓Global hotkey, toggle & push-to-talk modes
- ✓Auto-paste into any field, with clipboard restore
- ✓Every Whisper model, Tiny → Large v3
- ✓On-device AI cleanup, custom vocabulary & per-app modes
- ✓Floating HUD, draggable mic button & esc-to-cancel
- ✓100-item searchable history and your own mic picker
- ✓Up to three Macs on one licence
- ✓All future updates included — no subscription
14-day free trial, then 10 minutes of dictation a day free — forever. Only the audio you actually speak counts, not the time the app is open. Buying removes the daily limit. Buying directly? See the Buying & License FAQ.
Your voice never leaves your Mac.
WhisperType has no account, no sign-in, and zero analytics telemetry. Audio captured from your microphone is buffered temporarily in RAM, processed directly on the Apple Neural Engine, and immediately released. No audio recordings are ever written to disk or transmitted to any server.
Verify It Yourself: 0 KB Network Egress
You don't have to take our word for it. After the initial one-time model download, you can turn off Wi-Fi or inspect WhisperType with Little Snitch, LuLu, or Wireshark. During active voice dictation, no audio data leaves your machine. Dictate confidential notes, legal briefs, or proprietary code with complete peace of mind.
Start talking.
Native, lightweight, and private by design — free every day, one price to remove the limit, no subscription, no account.
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Built for Apple Silicon. 14-day unlimited trial, then 10 free minutes of dictation a day, forever.