Voice typing
Speak. It types.
In any app, offline.
Press a shortcut 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.
One purchase covers Mac, iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad & Apple Watch.
How it works
Three steps, no upload.
- 1
Start talking
On Mac, press Option-Space or your own shortcut. On iPhone and iPad, switch to the ThinkScribe keyboard and tap or hold the mic key.
- 2
Stop, and it types
On Mac, press the shortcut again or just pause; on iPhone, let go of the mic. The words appear where your cursor is: Mail, Slack, Notes, a browser form, your editor, your EHR.
- 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 languages on Mac, 11 on the keyboard
The Mac shortcut dictates in any of the app's 28 languages; the iPhone and iPad keyboard types in 11. Names and technical terms can be taught once.
Choice of speech engines
Apple's on-device speech recognition or ThinkScribe's own speech models, 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 stop, and it keeps working with Wi-Fi off.
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.
