Take Dictation
Hold a key, talk, and clean text lands at your cursor
The verdict
Take Dictation types what you say at your cursor while you hold a key, then strips filler words, adds punctuation and applies spoken fixes like 'Tuesday, no, Wednesday' with fixed rules instead of an AI rewrite. Your voice and transcript never leave your Mac, and there is no account. It costs $39 once for the whole household after a 14-day trial, but it needs macOS 26 and only takes English.
Get it if
You write long emails and notes on an Apple silicon Mac and want dictation that stays on your Mac and never rewrites your words.
Skip it if
You dictate in a language other than English or haven't moved to macOS 26, and the Mac's built-in dictation is free.
What it helps you do
- Dictate an email straight into Mail
- Drop filler words and add punctuation automatically
- Fix a word by saying the correction
- Teach it how to spell names you use
Plans and prices
Household license
$39$39 once for you and the people you live with, with updates and a 30-day refund
Organization
Priced on request by the number of people
What changed
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The details
- Runs on
- Mac
- Free trial
- Try the paid version first
- No account
- Works without signing up
- Offline
- Works without internet
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