Talk instead of typing.
Dictation for macOS that runs entirely on your own Mac. Finished text, in whatever app you already have open.
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Screen recording: ten seconds of real dictation
Replaced before launch with a self-hosted, muted, looping clip.
- Half the price of Wispr Flow $68 a year against their $144.
- Unlimited dictation No word caps, no minutes, no fair-use asterisk.
- Nothing leaves your Mac Speech recognition runs on your own hardware.
- Every future feature included Updates and new features, no upgrade fee.
- Agentic editing on the roadmap Select text, say what to change, let it rewrite. Not yet available.
Your voice never leaves your Mac
Speech recognition runs on your own hardware, on your GPU, with no server in the loop. Not anonymised, not "deleted after 30 days". It simply never goes anywhere.
Your audio is held in memory only while you are dictating, transcribed by a model on your own GPU, and discarded. Your transcripts and your dictation history are written to your Mac and nowhere else. There is also an Offline only switch that hard-disables every optional AI feature at once.
The full detail of what an account stores is on the privacy page.
Text you can send, not a transcript you have to fix
It cleans up as you go
Fillers dropped, punctuation and capitals added, and self-corrections resolved. Say "meet me Tuesday, no, Wednesday" and you get Wednesday.
It types where you already are
Text lands at your cursor in any app. No window to visit, nothing to copy out afterwards.
It learns your words
Teach it the names, jargon and phrases you use, once. They come out spelled right from then on.
Start free. Arrange payment directly if you keep going.
Your first 2,000 words — roughly 35 to 40 minutes of speech — are free, with no card and no time limit. After that, Pro keeps dictation running. There is no card checkout at all: you pay by crypto, bank transfer, or UPI, and get a one-time key to paste into the app. How to pay →
Free trial
$0 2,000 words
No card. No expiry date. Just a verified email.
- The full app, nothing held back
- Local transcription and cleanup
- Custom dictionary and shortcuts
- Your own AI keys, if you want them
Best value
Pro, yearly
$68 / year
About $5.67 a month, and one payment instead of twelve.
- Unlimited dictation
- Up to 3 Macs on one account
- Everything in the trial, without the cap
- Activated by a one-time key — no card, no auto-renewal
Pro, monthly
$6 / month
Same features. Month to month.
- Unlimited dictation
- Up to 3 Macs on one account
- Everything in the trial, without the cap
- Activated by a one-time key — no card, no auto-renewal
There's no checkout on this website, on purpose. A visitor here is anonymous, so a payment started from this page would attach to no account at all. Instead, payment is arranged directly — crypto, bank transfer, or UPI — and you get a one-time key that you redeem inside HandsFree, where you're signed in, so the subscription lands on your actual account. See the payment methods and the exact steps.
Prices are in US dollars. Nothing renews automatically and no card is ever stored, because there is no card: when a subscription is close to running out the app warns you, and you renew by redeeming another key.
HandsFree for macOS
A direct download, signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Drag it to Applications, grant Accessibility and Microphone access, and the app fetches its transcription model on first run.
Placeholder: the download link and the SHA-256 below are not real yet — the button currently goes nowhere. Both must be replaced before this site goes live.
Questions worth answering
Is my voice sent anywhere?
No. Speech recognition happens on your Mac. The only things that reach us are your email address and a running count of words dictated, which is how the free trial is measured. Never the text.
If you switch on the optional AI polish with your own API key, that step sends the transcript to the provider you chose, under your key and their policy. It is off unless you turn it on, and Offline only disables it outright.
Does it work offline?
Yes. After setup, dictation needs no connection at all. The app checks your subscription when it can, and keeps working for weeks if it cannot reach us.
What happens after the free words?
Dictation pauses until you subscribe. Your settings, dictionary and history are untouched, and unused words never expire.
How do I pay?
Directly, by crypto, bank transfer or UPI. There is no card checkout. Once payment arrives you get a key to paste into the app, which activates your subscription. See payment options →
More on the support page, including setup and permissions.