Dictation for macOS · on-device
Voice to text for your Mac. Hold Fn, talk, and it types into whatever app you’re in.
Zero collapsed transcripts in 500 clips. Nothing leaves your Mac.
The whole product
No cleanup pass. No “let me just fix that one word.”
I used to type everything. My hands got tired, and I kept losing my train of thought. So I built something that runs only on my own Mac — no account, no cloud. Now I just talk, and the words are already there.
I used to type everything. My hands got tired, and I kept losing my train of thought. So I built something that runs only on my own Mac, no account, no cloud. Now I just talk, and the words are already there.
98.5%
807 dictations · 12 edits · the app's own log · 10 Aug 2026
Read it honestly. “Not edited” isn't “correct.” One speaker, everyday use, not a lab test. The true figure is lower than this.
Measured, not asserted
Same 500 clips, same scoring, same machine. Against Whisper large-v3.
| Outtype | Whisper large-v3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Clips typed with zero errors | 75.2% | 69.4% |
| Character error rate | 3.08% | 4.53% |
| Transcripts that fell apart | 0 | 1 |
| Speed | 9.5× realtime | 5.6× |
fsicoli/common_voice_17_0 English test (CC0), 500 clips — same audio,
same scoring code for both. Outtype was more accurate on English.
Not on the strength of one outlier: drop each side's worst clip and it still wins
(2.91% vs 4.18%), and clip by clip it landed closer on 92 and further on 47.
This compares engines — Qwen3-ASR against Whisper large-v3 — not products.
Why it's different
01
Whisper turns one sentence into a paragraph of nonsense sometimes. 500 clips, zero times.
02
No account. No server. No upload. Pull the Wi-Fi out — nothing changes.
03
The words land while you're still thinking about the next sentence.
Works wherever you can type. Slack, Gmail, Notion, Cursor, Terminal.
Speed, measured
From the moment you stop talking to the words appearing.
| What you said | You wait | Slowest 1 in 10 |
|---|---|---|
| A few words (under 3s) | 0.43s | 0.54s |
| A sentence (3–8s) | 0.55s | 0.75s |
| A paragraph (8–20s) | 0.78s | 1.01s |
| A long one (20s+) | 1.34s | 2.13s |
Median across 835 dictations, from the app's own log, 10 Aug 2026. Measured before the latest speed work — the shipping build is faster.
What's next
Buy it once and the platforms you get later are included — there's no server to charge you for.
Pricing
Monthly apps bill you because a server runs every time you speak. Outtype doesn't have one.
Questions
No.
Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, 5-bit, on your machine. Competitors in this category won't tell you this — one of them doesn't publish the model name at all.
Always. That's the only mode there is.
Apple Silicon today. Windows and mobile are being built — included in the one-time price when they land.
Ask for your money back within 30 days. No form, no reason needed. You keep nothing on a server, so there is nothing for me to take away — I would rather you did not own something you do not use.