Local dictation for macOS

Type 4x faster.
Save Based on 90 minutes of typing each weekday at 40 WPM versus 120 WPM speaking./ week.

Accurate, private, and built for your daily workflows.

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Lists

1 / 8

What you said

What lands in your app

grocery list number one milk number two eggs hello exclamation mark

Grocery list: 1. Milk 2. Eggs Hello!

List formattingPunctuation

Runs on your Mac. Nowhere else.

Audio, transcripts, and polish stay on-device.

Notes
Press Fn to speak

100% local, by default

Audio, transcripts, and polish run on your Mac. Nothing leaves your device.

Works offline

No network needed to dictate. Planes, cafés, offline meetings.

Guided local model setup

Install, grant permissions, download local models, and dictate. No provider config.

Light on your Mac

About 100 MB of memory while idle, around 1.2 GB while dictating.

Where you use it

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Daily workflows, done well.

File references

1 / 8

Meetings

Private meeting notes on your Mac.

No bot joins. No screen pixels are saved. Record explicitly from the dashboard, then get local speaker labels, a transcript, summary, decisions, and action items.

See how meeting notes work →

Local by default

  • Separate microphone and meeting-app audio tracks
  • Anonymous speakers you can rename or merge
  • Temporary audio discarded after processing

Pricing

No subscription, no recurring bill, no per-word cap.

Launch priceEnds August 31, 2026
$19$29One-time purchase
  • 100% local and private
  • Works offline after setup
  • No subscription or account required
  • macOS-native, light footprint
Purchase

License key by email after checkout.

FAQs

One workflow: dictation to polished text. You speak, TovoType transcribes locally on your Mac, and optionally polish the result before inserting it. You can also select existing text to rewrite or translate in place.
Dictation works in 99 languages. On top of that, spoken numbers, lists, emoji, and file paths are formatted on-device in 10: English, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Hindi, Korean, and Japanese.
No. Audio, transcripts, and polish stay on your Mac, keeping your voice and text private and available offline.
You download TovoType's local speech and polish models during setup. There is no model picker, provider setup, or account; the app guides the download and then runs locally.
TovoType is a one-time $19 purchase (normally $29): no subscription, no recurring bill.
Because it is built around native macOS behavior, lower overhead, and a tighter experience. Staying Mac-only keeps the app lighter and the workflow more focused than cross-platform dictation layers.
macOS 27 improves on-device dictation. TovoType goes further with personalized learning, reusable prompts, file references, app-aware style, rewriting, translation, history, and usage stats, all local on your Mac.
TovoType hides model details so you never have to manage them. We tune the model set over time and deliver improvements through app updates.
Yes. Dictation and polish run entirely on-device, so TovoType works without a network connection.

Speak it. Don't type it.

Local dictation to clean text, built for macOS. Install and start talking.

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