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Dictano is a dictation app for macOS that runs the speech recognition on the Mac itself. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works with the network off.

The app while dictating: a floating bar with a timer and a live audio meter, and the text typed straight into the app the cursor was in.

Cost / License

  • Pay once
  • Proprietary

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  • Mac  Requires an Apple Silicon Mac. The speech model, around 550 MB, is downloaded on first launch.
The whole app is the menu bar item: recent dictations, language, hotkey, sounds and start at login. There is no settings window.
dictano.com home page: press the hotkey, speak, the text is typed where the cursor is.
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The download page, with the system requirements and the license.
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  • Developed by

    Nicolas Melian

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $29.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
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What is Dictano?

Dictano is a dictation app for macOS that runs the speech recognition on the Mac itself. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works with the network off.

Press the hotkey, a small recording bar appears with a live audio meter, speak, and press it again. About a second later the text is typed straight into whatever app the cursor was in: an editor, a browser field, an email, a chat box. There is no window to copy from and no cleanup step. Holding the hotkey instead of tapping it works as push to talk.

Transcription uses Whisper large-v3-turbo, which handles full sentences, punctuation, technical terms and switching language mid-sentence. English, Spanish, German, Portuguese and French can be set explicitly or detected automatically. The last ten transcriptions are kept in the menu bar so a dictation can be copied again.

The app is a menu bar app written in Swift. The download is about 3 MB; the speech model, around 550 MB, is fetched once on first launch and stored locally. It requires an Apple Silicon Mac.

Pricing is a one-time license after a 7-day trial. There is no subscription.