Your tongue is faster than your fingers.
Hold a key. Speak. Release. Your words appear like magic. Powered by Whisper AI running entirely on your Mac. No cloud. No accounts. No subscriptions.
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · Free forever, Pro if you want
What it does (really well)
(Compelling demo video coming soon)
Talk at the speed of thought
Typing is so 2024. Hold your hotkey, say what you mean, let go. TongueType transcribes your speech faster than your fingers could ever dream of moving. Perfect for emails, Slack messages, code comments, and those LLM prompts that somehow became your whole job.
Transcribe any file
Got a meeting recording? An interview? That voice memo you swore you’d listen to later? Drag in WAV, MP3, MP4, MOV — TongueType eats them all and spits out text. Locally, obviously.
What happens on your Mac stays on your Mac
No cloud. No servers. No analytics. No “anonymous usage data.” Your audio never leaves your device. We literally can’t spy on you even if we wanted to. Which we don’t.
Three steps. Zero friction.
Hold your hotkey
Right Option key by default, but you do you.
Speak
In any of 12 languages. TongueType even auto-detects which one.
Release
Text appears wherever your cursor is. Like you typed it. But you didn’t.
Why TongueType?
No subscription
Pay once for Pro. Or don’t. The free version works great — just with a shorter recording limit. No drip-fed features behind a monthly paywall.
100% private
Runs Whisper AI locally on Apple Silicon. Your words stay on your Mac. We don’t even have a server to send them to.
12 languages
English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and more — plus auto‑detection for the polyglots.
Gets out of your way
Lives in your menu bar. No dock icon. No windows to manage. Hold, speak, release. That’s it.
What people are saying
“I used to spend 20 minutes typing a prompt to ask AI to write an email that took 10 seconds to read. Now I just say it. The irony is not lost on me.”
“Hold key. Talk to computer. Words appear. We’re living in the future and it costs zero dollars.”
“Finally, dictation that doesn’t require an internet connection, a user account, a blood sample, and my firstborn.”
“I transcribed a 2‑hour meeting recording in minutes. The meeting itself was pointless, but at least the transcript was fast.”
“Installed it to write docs faster. Now I dictate grocery lists, journal entries, and passive-aggressive Slack messages. Growth.”
“Somewhere between speech‑to‑text and wizardry. Closer to wizardry.”
“No cloud, no subscription, no account. I keep waiting for the catch. It’s been six months.”
“Finally, a dictation app that doesn’t autocorrect ‘Kubernetes’ to ‘cucumbers.’”
Questions you probably have
Is TongueType really free?
Yes. The free version has all the same features — just with a shorter maximum recording time. TongueType Pro (a one-time purchase) removes that limit. No subscriptions. No recurring charges. No “your free trial has expired” emails.
Does my audio get sent anywhere?
No. TongueType uses Whisper AI running locally on your Mac’s Apple Silicon. Your audio is processed entirely on-device. We don’t have servers. We don’t have analytics. We don’t even have your email address.
What languages does it support?
English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Dutch, and Russian. Plus auto-detection if you like to keep TongueType guessing.
Why does it require Apple Silicon?
TongueType runs the Whisper AI model on Apple’s Neural Engine via CoreML. This requires an M1 chip or later. Intel Macs aren’t supported. Sorry, your 2019 MacBook Pro had a good run.
How is this different from macOS built-in dictation?
Apple’s dictation can send audio to Apple servers and requires you to enable it in System Settings. TongueType is entirely local, uses a configurable hold-to-record hotkey, supports audio/video file transcription, has smart post-processing with custom rules, and adds zero data to anyone’s cloud.
How accurate are the transcriptions?
TongueType uses OpenAI’s Whisper model, which is genuinely impressive — even with accents, background noise, and the occasional mumble. It’s not perfect (no speech-to-text is), but it’s accurate enough that you’ll spend less time fixing transcriptions than you would have spent typing in the first place.
Can I use it for coding?
Absolutely. It works anywhere your cursor can type. Code comments, commit messages, documentation, Slack rants about why the build is broken — all fair game.
Ready to let your tongue do the typing?
Download TongueType and start talking. Your fingers will thank you.