Hold fn and dictate in any app. Clean text lands at your cursor, and your voice never leaves your Mac.
One-time purchase. 3 Macs. Updates included.
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Transcription and clean-up run on your Mac. An automated test makes sure of it.
An automated test fails if transcription or clean-up makes a single network request. The model downloads once, then everything happens on the chip.
On a train, in flight, on a locked-down corporate network.
Your voice stays in memory just long enough to transcribe it.
No sign-up. One email at checkout to receive your key.
Transcription on the Neural Engine, clean-up by Apple Intelligence, all on-device.
The pill opens at the bottom of your screen and follows your voice. Let go, and the text lands at your cursor in about a second.
Hands-free mode keeps listening without holding the key. Tap fn to stop and process.
Nothing pasted, nothing kept. Prefer another key? Right ⌘ works too.
If a text field accepts your keyboard, it accepts your voice.
Choose between speed and accuracy in Settings. Switch any time.
The default engine. Fast and accurate, it detects the language you speak on its own. It runs on the Neural Engine.
The most accurate, for text where every word counts. It takes a few more seconds per sentence.
The on-device transcription built into macOS. One fixed language, chosen in Settings.
An Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) running macOS 26. Clean-up uses Apple Intelligence. If it's turned off, SpeechFast pastes the transcript as is.
SpeechFast cleans up what you say: fillers, repeats and false starts go, punctuation gets fixed. With Apple's dictation, you switch languages from a menu next to the cursor. Parakeet detects the language on its own, so you can go from English to French from one sentence to the next. Every dictation also lands in a local history. And if you like Apple's engine, you can pick it inside SpeechFast.
With Parakeet, 25 European languages including English, French, German and Spanish, detected automatically. You can switch languages from one sentence to the next.
To detect the fn key from any app and paste the text at your cursor. Your clipboard is saved before pasting and restored right after.
The audio, never. The text stays in a local history for 30 days by default. You can shorten that, turn it off or erase everything.
The first-launch setup opens the right setting so you can set "Press 🌐 key to" to "Do Nothing". You can also use Right ⌘.
The text goes to your clipboard and your history. No dictation is lost.
No. €39.99 once, for 3 Macs, updates included. For comparison, Wispr Flow Pro costs $15 a month. See how they compare.
Dictation stops and SpeechFast offers you a license. Your history and settings stay put. Paste your key and pick up where you left off.
Three. To switch Macs, deactivate the old one from Settings › License.
One-time purchase. 3 Macs. Updates included.
macOS 26 on Apple Silicon. Signed and notarized by Apple.