Hold a key.
Say it.
It's typed.
Push to talk dictation for the Mac. Your words land wherever your cursor is, in any app, transcribed on your Mac and never sent anywhere.
One purchase. No subscription. Three Macs.
Apple silicon · macOS 26 or later
Four engines, all on your Mac.
- AppleShips with macOS, no download
- ParakeetSharpest on English
- Whisper99 languages
- SenseVoiceWorks out which language you speak
Version 1.3.0, released 14 October 2026.
A shortcut for
what you want to say.
No window to open and nothing to paste. QuillKey sits in the menu bar and types for you, wherever the cursor is.
Hold a key
Push to talk on any key you like, fn by default. Or set a toggle for long dictation, with a cap so a forgotten microphone stops itself.
Say it
A small pill floats over whatever you're doing and transcribes as you speak. Release, and it's gone.
It's typed
The text is inserted exactly where your cursor is. Mail, Slack, your editor, a form in Safari. Anywhere you can type, you can talk.
Your voice stays on your Mac.
Transcription is entirely on-device. Apple's speech engine ships with macOS, and Parakeet, Whisper and SenseVoice run locally on Apple silicon. There is no account and nothing to log into, and no recording or transcript ever leaves your Mac.
- No account. Nothing to sign up for, ever.
- Works offline. Dictation needs no network at all.
- No telemetry. The app doesn't phone home.
- Cloud is opt in. Cleanup through Claude or GPT uses your own key, sends text never audio, and is off until you turn it on.
Your words.
Spelled your way.
Generic dictation mangles names, products and jargon. QuillKey feeds your terms to the engine before it listens, then runs a correction pass on the way out to catch what the engine still missed.
Ship it through Claude Code and ask the Anthropic team to review.
“Scratch that” deletes the last thing you said instead of typing it.
Keep your flow.
In every app.
$ git commit -m "Fix the race between the event tap and the audio start"See what your
voice gets done.
Every dictation is measured against typing the same words at 40 words a minute, so the Stats screen can tell you exactly what talking bought you. All counted on your Mac, shown to nobody but you.
Sample numbers. Yours will be earned.
Catch the thought.
Keep going.
One key opens a small pad over whatever you're working in. Talk or type, and the note keeps until you delete it. Saved notes live in a drawer beside the page, searchable, and the pad wears its own theme and its own key.
A small app.
Plenty thought through.
Multiple engines, your pick
Apple's needs no download. Parakeet is sharpest on English, Whisper reaches 99 languages, and SenseVoice works out which one you are speaking. Compare them on your own voice.
Modes that rewrite
Turn a ramble into a tidy email, locally via Apple Intelligence, or through Claude or GPT with your own key. If cleanup fails, your words land as spoken.
Searchable history
Every dictation is kept on-device with the app it went to, how long it took and how it was delivered. Search it, copy from it.
Per-app profiles
A different mode for Mail than for your editor. A local-only profile for the apps where cloud cleanup should never fire.
Left alone
If a password field has focus, QuillKey won't type into it, and those words stay off the clipboard.
Your colour, everywhere
Pick an accent and the app follows, wave, toggles and all. Try it on this page:
Your Mac.
Your voice.
Yours for A$39.
One purchase. Every feature. Ready when you are.
A$39
One payment. Not per month, not per year.
- Every feature, no tiers
- Every engine and model included
- All updates through version 1
- Use it on three of your Macs
- 14 day trial first, everything on
The deal, plainly: you buy the tool, updates to version 1 are included, and if a version 2 ever ships it will be a paid upgrade. You keep what you bought either way.
Requires macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon · Mac only for now
Can I try it before buying?
Yes. Every download starts a fourteen day trial with every feature switched on, no card and no account. When it ends, the app asks for a key and leaves your data alone.
Does it really work offline?
Yes. Transcription runs on your Mac with no network at all. The only features that touch the internet are the optional cloud cleanup modes, and those only run when you enable them with your own API key.
Why one purchase instead of a subscription?
Transcription runs locally on your Mac. Buy QuillKey once and keep it, with all updates through version 1 included. If version 2 ships, it will be a paid upgrade.
What about Windows?
Mac only for now. QuillKey is built on macOS speech and accessibility frameworks, so a Windows version would be a new app, not a port. We may look at it later.
Which Macs does it run on?
Apple silicon Macs on macOS 26 or later. The local models are built for the Neural Engine, which is where the speed comes from.
What data do you collect?
None. There is no account, no analytics, and no telemetry. Your dictation history lives in a local database on your Mac and nowhere else.
Stop typing what
you could say.
Try it for 14 days, then A$39 once.