FowlVoice
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Your voice,
typed.

Hold a key, say what you mean, let go. FowlVoice turns speech into clean text in any Mac app, transcribed right on your Mac. It's free, and talking is about three times faster than typing.

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Free, no account · macOS 14+ on Apple silicon · 140 MB

New Message

To: Sam Lee

Subject: Build is ready

Talking0:00
Typing0:00

Typing this message takes about 35 seconds. Saying it takes 11.

Works in every app you type in.

FowlVoice types wherever your cursor is: editors, terminals, chats, email, notes and browsers. Speak naturally, and clean text lands in the app you're already in.

  • macOS 14+
  • Apple silicon
  • No account
  • 140 MB download

Dictation that cleans up after you.

Talk the way you think. FowlVoice drops the filler, keeps your corrections and writes numbers properly, all on your Mac, before a single word is typed.

Drops the ums

Filler sounds like um, uh and hmm vanish before your words reach the page. No AI involved.

Keeps what you meant

Change your mind mid-sentence. Say “I mean”, “sorry” or “scratch that”, and only the final version is typed.

Writes numbers properly

Spoken numbers and versions come out as digits. Code editors and terminals get their own rules.
Processing
Dictation

Ship the site update today. The notepad shows every word as I say it, and I can fix anything before it lands in the doc

Transcribes as you speak. Live text on the orb, fully on-device.

Live text, or the minimal orb

Choose how dictation is processed. Streaming opens the orb into a small notepad that fills in as you talk, so you can fix a word before it's inserted. Batch keeps the minimal orb and transcribes when you stop. With Parakeet, both run on your Mac.

Flow Mode: talk without a hotkey

Pick an app and an activation phrase. Start a sentence with the phrase, and after a short pause your words land in that app, even while it sits in the background. Your pointer and focus stay where they are. Anything said without the phrase is discarded on your Mac.

Learns your words

Correct a name or some jargon once and it joins your dictionary. Keep it or undo it right from the popup.

25 languages, auto-detected

English, Spanish, French, German, Polish, Ukrainian and 19 more European languages. Just start talking.

Between sessions

VisibilityStays present, always easy to grab
Orb SizeThe regular shell size
Compact When IdleShrinks between sessions, grows when you speak

Choose how the orb looks

Keep the full orb with its buttons, switch to a small circle, or let it shrink to a sliver between sessions and grow the moment you speak. Out of the box it stays out of sight until you dictate.

Hold, or tap twice

Hold right ⌘ to talk and let go to insert. Double-tap for hands-free. AI commands get their own shortcut, and both remap.

Every app, its own rules

Auto-send prompts in Cursor, lowercase in Discord, multilingual in Obsidian. Settings follow the app you're in.

Never lose a dictation

Every dictation's audio is saved on your Mac. If a transcription fails, press Redo in History. Recordings clear after two weeks by default.

Quiets your Mac while you talk

Your Mac's audio mutes while you dictate or ask AI, then your previous volume comes right back.

Watch your words add up

Stats track your words, speed and streak, and you climb seven leagues from Bronze to Grandmaster. Every dictation is searchable in History, stored only on your Mac.

Ask anything. Right where you are.

Hold the AI shortcut (⌃⇧A by default) and say what you need: rewrite a selection, ask about your screen, or get an answer typed at your cursor.

Speak to edit selected text

Select text in any app and say the change. Shorter, friendlier, clearer: the rewrite lands where your selection was.

Ask about anything on screen

Hold the AI shortcut, drag over a chart, an error or a design, and ask. The answer appears in place.

Answers typed at your cursor

Click into any text field and ask. The answer is typed right there, no chat window to copy from.

Answers that stick around

Outside a text field, answers open in a floating deck. Keep several, flip between them and ask follow-ups. Ask about right now and it searches the web first, with sources.

Codex, built right in

Sign in with ChatGPT and the AI shortcut runs a Codex agent, the same engine behind OpenAI's Codex app. It searches the web, reads the app you're in and, with Computer Use, clicks and types its way through your apps to get the job done. Questions and approvals show up right in the orb, and anything sensitive waits for your yes.
  • Web search
  • Computer Use
  • Follow-ups
  • Approvals in the orb

Computer Use needs the ChatGPT app with Computer Use turned on.

Ramble in, clean prompt out

AI formatting polishes speech before it lands. Coding Agent Mode shapes loose thoughts into crisp prompts for your coding agent.

Bring your own AI

Apple's on-device model (macOS 26 and later), any OpenRouter model, or your ChatGPT account. Pick one per feature and switch anytime.

Private by design.

  • Transcribed on your MacParakeet runs locally on Apple silicon. With the default engine, your voice never leaves the machine.
  • History stays localYour dictations and recordings are stored on your Mac and nowhere else.
  • No account neededDownload it, open it, talk. No sign-up and no subscription.
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Give your keyboard a break.

Free, private, and ready in a minute. Drag it to Applications, hold a key and start talking.

Download for macOS

macOS 14+ on Apple silicon · Apple's on-device AI needs macOS 26+

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