Lives in your menu bar or system tray
A quiet mic shifts state as you dictate, idle to listening to transcribing, from the macOS menu bar or the Windows system tray. No window to manage, no tab to keep open.
Private, on-device dictation for Mac and Windows
Speak anywhere.
Your words never leave your device.
Hold your hotkey, speak, release. Clean text appears at your cursor, in any app. Fully on-device, no cloud, no per-word cost, works offline.
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hold to talk
Most dictation sends your voice to someone else's server.
Cloud speech-to-text uploads what you say, processes it remotely, and often bills you by the word. Your meetings, your messages, your half-formed ideas, all of it leaves your machine. PlainVoice does none of that.
Three steps
Press. Speak. Done.
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Press your hotkey
Hit your shortcut anywhere, on Mac or Windows. Hold to push-to-talk, or tap once to toggle it on and off.
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02
Speak
Your voice is transcribed locally on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded, ever.
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03
Release
Clean text is pasted at your cursor, and your previous clipboard is put back exactly as it was.
On-device isn't a setting.
It's the whole point.
The transcription model runs on your computer, so your audio never travels. It works on a plane, in a basement, or with the Wi-Fi off. There is no API meter running in the background, and your history stays in a local file you can clear whenever you like.
- Audio that leaves your device
- None
- Works offline
- Always
- Cost per word
- $0
Everything happens on your machine.
Floating widget
A draggable pill that snaps to any screen edge and expands when you need it.
Insights
Words per minute, total words, a streak, and a 14-day chart of your dictation.
Custom dictionary
Teach it exact spellings and spoken shortcuts, applied right after transcription.
Optional cleanup, still fully local
Strip filler words, fix punctuation and casing, and keep a local-only history you control and can clear at any time.
Speak Dutch. Insert English.
Optional on-device translation lets you dictate in one language and get text in another. It runs locally, right on your computer, so it stays as private as the rest of PlainVoice.
macOS26+, Apple Silicon
Windows10 & 11
NeedsMicrophone access
AccountNone needed
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We're building PlainVoice for Mac and Windows. Leave your email and we'll tell you the moment it's ready to download on your platform. That's the only reason we'll write to you.