Pipit

The best voice-to-text app for macOS. Lightning-fast speech recognition, 100% private, completely free. Top-rated dictation software with unified clipboard history. Perfect for developers, writers, and professionals.

Pipit runs quietly in the background. Just press a key to start.

• Press Option: Hold your hotkey to activate the listening overlay instantly.
• Speak Naturally: Pipit transcribes your voice in real-time using local AI.
• Paste Anywhere: Release the key to paste text directly into your active app.

Strong UX focus. Every action saves you fractions of a second.

• Unified Timeline: Clipboard and transcriptions in one searchable history. Find that API key or the note you dictated last week.
• Actually Invisible: Hold hotkey, speak, release. Text appears at your cursor. No windows, no app switching.
• Bring Your Own Key: Use your Open Router API key and pay pennies per month.

Raw transcription in, polished text out. Perfect for emails, messages, notes—whatever you're writing.

More features:

• Adaptive Dictionary: Pipit learns how you speak. Names, jargon, technical terms—it remembers and corrects them automatically.
• File Transcription: Drop any audio or video file. Get a full transcript in seconds—processed entirely on your Mac.