Dictation
hold right ⌥Long day, and I nearly did not write anything.
No window. Just light at the edge of the screen while you talk, and the words at your cursor when you stop.
Text-to-speech and speech-to-text, in one app.
No subscription. No privacy concern. Fully local.
Reading
copy anything, then double-tap right ⌥The white in those portraits is powder, not a wig. Washington was a natural redhead who dusted his own hair to match the fashion of his rank.
The white in those portraits is powder, not a wig. Washington was a natural redhead who dusted his own hair to match the fashion of his rank.
The timing is the engine's own, not a guess, so the highlight never drifts. Half to triple speed. Click any word to jump.
Blue while it reads. Red while it listens. One key, ⌥ on the right, two directions.
This page is silent. The pacing is authored; in the app it comes from the engine.
There is nowhere for it to go.
Every one of these is checkable from a terminal during the trial.
Nothing to send
No account, no telemetry, no cloud fallback. The models sit on your disk.
Zero memory when idle
Nothing runs until you press the key, and it exits after 30 idle minutes. Warm, about 0.4 s to audio.
A licence that cannot phone home
Signed offline. There is no licence server to contact, because a privacy tool that calls home fails its own test.
Not on the Mac App Store
What makes it private is what the store forbids. That trade was never on offer.
Two subscriptions, or one purchase.
Other TTS
Speechify Premium
$29/mo
Other dictation
Wispr Flow Pro
$15/mo
Together
$44/mo
twelve payments of $44:
$528 every year
Univocal
TTS + dictation
$29once
- No usage limits
- Perpetual licence
- Nothing leaves the Mac
one payment:
$29 year one, then $0
Monthly rates, and annual billing is cheaper for both; Wispr Flow is per user. Two jobs compared, not feature lists. Read from speechify.com/pricing and wisprflow.ai/pricing, 6 August 2026.
$29. Once.
Fourteen days free, then a one-time key rather than a subscription.
- 14-day free trial, full product
- Licence key signed offline, no activation server
- 31 languages supported
- Chrome extension free on its own, English only
- macOS 13+, Apple Silicon only
One key, both directions, and nothing leaves the machine. You have fourteen days to test every claim on this page.
Download the trial Buy once, $29
No card for the trial. No account, ever.