Voice typing

Speak. It types.
In any app, offline.

Hold a key on your Mac, or hold the mic on the ThinkScribe keyboard on iPhone, say what you mean, and the text lands at your cursor. The speech model runs on the device, so dictation works on a plane, in a clinic, and anywhere you would rather not upload your voice.

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One purchase covers Mac, iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch.

How it works

Three steps, no upload.

  1. 1

    Hold to talk

    On Mac, hold Option-Space or your own shortcut. On iPhone and iPad, switch to the ThinkScribe keyboard and hold the mic key.

  2. 2

    Release to type

    Let go and the words appear where your cursor is: Mail, Slack, Notes, a browser form, your editor, your EHR.

  3. 3

    Rewrite if you like

    One tap turns a rough dictation into a formal email, a shorter message, or whatever format you ask for, still on the device.

Features

Dictation that works everywhere you type.

Any app, any text field

Nothing to integrate. If you can place a cursor there, you can dictate there, on Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Offline and private

Speech recognition runs on your own hardware. No account, and your audio is never sent to us.

AI rewrite on-device

Professional, shorter, friendlier, or your own prompt. AI reshapes the text before you send it.

28 dictation languages

Pick a language per dictation or let the engine detect it. Names and technical terms can be taught once.

Choice of speech engines

Apple's on-device models, Whisper or Parakeet, switchable whenever speed, accuracy or a language matters more.

No connection, no lag

There is no round trip to a server, so the text appears the moment you release the key, and it keeps working with Wi-Fi off.

Privacy

Why on-device dictation is different.

Most dictation tools send your voice to a server and return text. That is fine until you are dictating a patient note, a contract clause, or anything you would not read aloud in public. ThinkScribe turns the audio into text on the Mac or iPhone in front of you, and there is no ThinkScribe server in the middle.

Never sent to us
No account required
No ads, no tracking
Transcription works offline
FAQ

Questions, answered.

Does voice typing work without internet?

Yes. The speech models are downloaded once during setup and run on the device from then on. Turn on Airplane Mode and keep dictating.

Which apps can I dictate into?

Any app with a text field. On Mac the text is placed at the cursor in the frontmost app, or on the clipboard if you prefer. On iPhone and iPad the ThinkScribe keyboard works wherever the system keyboard does.

How is this different from Apple's built-in dictation?

Apple's dictation runs on the device for some languages and sends audio to Apple's servers for others. ThinkScribe runs its own speech models for every language it supports, lets you switch engines, and adds an on-device rewrite step before the text is used.

Why does the iPhone keyboard ask for Full Access?

iOS does not let a keyboard use the microphone, so the ThinkScribe keyboard hands the recording to the ThinkScribe app and brings the text back. Full Access is what allows that hand-off. The audio is transcribed on the phone and is never sent to us.

Try the private alternative.

Free to download, with free uses of every Pro feature. No account needed.

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See it on Mac and iPhone.