Stop typing. Start talking.
Voice dictation for Mac
Stop typing. Start talking.
Hold a key, speak naturally and your voice turns into text in any app. Everything happens on your Mac — nothing travels to the cloud.
Like Wispr Flow, but free and private.
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macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · Free
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Your dictation shows up here, right at the cursor…
⌘ right
Hold Right ⌘ to dictate
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In action
Watch it dictate in 11 seconds.
Hold Right ⌘, speak naturally, release… and the text lands already punctuated, right where the cursor is. Nothing to open, and nothing leaves the Mac.
100% local
No cloud, no accounts
Neural Engine
Accelerated Whisper
Push-to-talk
In any app
Private by design
Your voice never leaves the Mac
One key
Hold Right ⌘. That's the whole interface.
No windows, no menus, no mouse. Put the cursor where you want to write, hold the key and talk. It works with the keyboard you already have.
Listening…
Try it: press and hold the highlighted ⌘ — or your physical Right Command.
How it works
Three steps. Zero friction.
Nothing to open, no copy-paste. It works on top of the app you're already using.
01
⌘ Hold
Press and hold
Hold your key. ChacharApp starts listening instantly, with no window in the way.
02
Speak naturally
Dictate the way you'd talk to a person. No weird commands, no forced pauses.
03
✓ Text ready
Release and done
The text lands right where your cursor is, already punctuated, in any application.
Privacy + speed
Whisper runs on your Neural Engine. Nothing leaves your Mac.
We run the speech model locally on Apple Silicon, on the Neural Engine — whichever one you pick, always on your machine. No servers, no subscriptions, and no words of yours travelling anywhere. The app doesn't track you or analyse how you use it: zero telemetry and zero cloud dependency.
0
data sent
\~1s
from a phrase to text
∞
minutes, no limit
- No telemetry
- No usage analytics
- No account
- No network in normal use
You say:
“Send the deck to cubernetes over slack before eod.”
ChacharApp writes:
Send the deck to Kubernetes over Slack before EOD.
Accuracy
It tunes to the way you speak.
Add your own vocabulary: names, acronyms, technical jargon and brands. With phonetic matching you say “cubernetes” and it writes “Kubernetes” — without ever typing the misspelling into a rule.
Phonetic glossaryProper nounsTechnical acronymsAuto punctuationMultilingual
Full control
Everything is configurable. Even the engine.
Pick your shortcut, your microphone and the speech model. Use the bundled one, download another variant or import your own (WhisperKit CoreML) — and it always runs locally, never in the cloud.
Push-to-talk keys, hands-free mode and the microphone privacy policy.
The bundled model ready out of the box; download other variants or import your own. Whichever you pick runs locally.
History + privacy
Every dictation, stored locally. Only you see it.
A searchable local history keeps the raw recognition next to the final text: you see what it heard and what it fixed. Nothing leaves the Mac, no account, no telemetry. My favourite: I dictated its own name and Whisper heard “Chacha Wrap”. What got inserted: “ChacharApp”.
The History tab: the raw recognition “Chacha Wrap” stored under the “ChacharApp” that actually got inserted.
Against the alternatives
Why choose ChacharApp.
Feature
ChacharApp
macOS dictation
Cloud apps
Processing
On your Mac
On your Mac
Servers
Full privacy
✓
Partial
✕
Whisper on Neural Engine
✓
N/A
N/A (cloud)
Custom vocabulary
✓ phonetic
✕
Sometimes
Offline
✓
Partial
✕
Price
Free · MIT
Included
Subscription
The first-launch assistant: three steps that tick themselves off as they complete.
First launch
Three steps and you're dictating.
Download the .dmg, open it and the app itself walks you through it: microphone, Accessibility and the speech model, which downloads on its own the first time. The checklist ticks itself off. No account, no weird setup.
Your voice, your text, your Mac.
Download it for free and start dictating in under a minute.
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · Free