Dictation that never leaves your Mac.
Press your shortcut, talk, and clean text lands wherever your cursor is. Speech recognition and cleanup run on your Mac, so it works offline, with no account and nothing uploaded.
- macOS 15 or later
- Apple silicon (M1 or newer)
- Free plan, no account
It types where your cursor is.
It works in Mail, Notes, your chat apps, your code editor and any browser tab, without plug-ins or extensions. On iPhone, the PrivateWispr keyboard does the same in any app.
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Press your shortcut
In any text field on your Mac. Choose your own shortcut in Settings: a key combination, or a modifier key on its own, like Option. On iPhone, tap the mic on the PrivateWispr keyboard.
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Talk the way you think
Pause, restart, say "um". Smart Cleanup drops the filler words and false starts on your device (in the app on iPhone; keyboard takes get filler-word cleanup).
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Press again and it types
Clean, punctuated text appears at your cursor. On Mac, your clipboard is put back afterwards, unless you copy something new in the meantime.
One voice, the right tone for each app.
On Mac, Style sets the punctuation for each kind of app, so a note to a friend reads differently from a note to a client. Pick one:
Hi Rosalind, thanks for the Q3 numbers. They look right to me. Can we lock the board deck by Thursday afternoon?
Meeting notes with no bot in the call.
Press Start Meeting Notes and PrivateWispr writes a live transcript on your device. On Mac it records your microphone and the sound of the call. When you stop, it removes filler words and labels who spoke.
- Nothing joins your call
- No assistant joins your video call or shows up in its participant list. Your Mac records the call's sound itself.
- Speaker labels
- PrivateWispr works out who spoke when on your Mac or iPhone after the meeting ends. On Mac it labels your microphone You and splits the call into Speaker 1, Speaker 2.
- Headphones are fine
- The Mac takes the other side of the call from the system audio, so it still hears them while you wear headphones.
- Upcoming meetings
- Connect Calendar on your Mac and the dictation bar lists your next meetings with a Take notes button. Calendar stays off until you connect it.
Send it on. Teach it your words.
On Mac, every dictation on Home has a send button. Pick an AI chat, a chat app, Mail or Notes and PrivateWispr puts the text there for you to send. Teach it your names and shortcuts once and it uses them in every app.
- Dictionary
- Say "post gres" and get Postgres. Say "cube control" and get kubectl. Names like Nasrin and Dr. Okafor come out spelled right. Mac and iPhone.
- Snippets
- Say "my email" or "sign off" and the full text lands. Mac and iPhone.
- Voice Actions
- Select text, hold the Voice Actions shortcut and say what to change. The rewrite happens on your Mac.
25 languages built in.
Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and more come with a free language pack. Every language runs on your device. On Mac, you can tag each shortcut with one language or leave it on Auto-detect.
Built in 25
- English
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Maltese
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Ukrainian
Free language pack
- Arabic
- Cantonese
- Chinese
- Filipino
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Macedonian
- Malay
- Persian
- Thai
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
The pack is an optional download from inside the app. The lists above are the Mac app's.
Your voice is not cloud data.
Speech recognition, cleanup and speaker labels run on your Mac or iPhone, not on a server. The apps haveThe app has no account, no analytics and no ads. Turn Wi-Fi off after the first model download and dictation, cleanup and meeting notes keep working.
- Your voice, text and notes stay on your device.
- It never records or screenshots your screen, and PrivateWispr trains no model on what you say. On Mac it reads text in other apps only for Voice Actions (the text you select) and when you send a dictation to an app (to check its text box is empty).
Everything the app connects to
The apps haveThe app has no general-purpose networking. These four arethree are the only connections they makeit makes, and none of them carries your voice, your text or your notes.
| Where | When | What it sends |
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| Hugging Face Mac and iPhoneMac | The first time a feature needs a model, or when you add a language | A request for a model file, pinned to a fixed version. No audio, text or notes. |
| Polar Mac, Pro only | When you enter or remove a licence key, then once a day while the app runs | The key and a device label such as "Mac · 3f2a · 2026-10-19". Never your usage or device identifiers. |
| privatewispr.com Mac | A daily update check, which you can turn off | The app's name and version. Every update is signed, and nothing installs until you confirm. |
| Apple iPhone | When you subscribe or restore a purchase | Apple's App Store handles it. The app adds no requests of its own. |
Check it yourself: dictate with Wi-Fi off, or watch the app in a network monitor such as Little Snitch. The privacy policy lists every detail.
On-device, compared with cloud dictation.
Most dictation apps send your voice to a server to be transcribed. Here is what changes when the work happens on your Mac instead, including where the cloud apps come out ahead.
| Question | PrivateWispr | Typical cloud dictation |
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| Where your speech is turned into text | On your Mac or iPhone | On the provider's servers |
| Your audio leaves the device | Never | Yes, so it can be transcribed |
| Works with Wi-Fi off | Yes, after the one-time model download | Usually needs a connection |
| Account | None | Usually needs a sign-in |
| Reads text in your other apps | On Mac, only when you ask: the text you select for Voice Actions, or the box you send a dictation to. On iPhone, the keyboard can see the text field you are typing in, as any keyboard does. | Some read text in the active window, with a setting |
| The model you rely on | Pinned; changes only when you update | Runs on servers the provider can update |
| Windows and Android | No. Mac and iPhone only | Some offer them |
| Sync between your devices | No. Each device keeps its own history | Some sync through your account |
"Typical cloud dictation" describes how popular cloud apps work according to their own help, privacy and data-control pages, read on 20 October 2026. Policies change, so check any app's current page before you rely on it.
A tour of the app.
Home
MacYour dictations, listed by day with their language and length. Search them, copy one, or send it to another app.
Start free. Pay if you need more.
The free plan has every feature, up to a monthly limit. Mac and iPhone are separate purchases: Apple sells the iPhone plans, and the Mac licence comes from our store.The Mac has its own Pro plan, bought from our store. The iPhone app will have its own plans through the App Store.
Mac and iPhoneMac
Free
Every feature, with a monthly limit.
No account, no card
- Mac: 2,500 words and 1 meeting a month
- iPhone: 1,500 words and 1 meeting a month
- Mac: every feature, including call-audio Meeting Notes, Dictionary, Snippets, Style and Voice Actions
- A meeting counts once it passes 30 seconds
- Nothing is deleted when you reach a limit
Mac
Pro
The same features, without the monthly limits.
Or $139.99 a year
- 2 weeks free in the app, no card needed
- No word limit: unlimited dictation
- No meeting limit: unlimited Meeting Notes
- Every Free feature stays
- Billed by Polar, which adds sales tax where it applies
iPhone
Pro
Unlimited dictation on your iPhone.
Or $99.99 a year
- 2-week free trial through the App Store
- Unlimited dictation, in the app and the keyboard
- Meeting Notes stay at 1 a month
iPhone
Max
Pro, plus unlimited Meeting Notes.
Or $139.99 a year
- Everything in iPhone Pro
- Unlimited Meeting Notes
- Your iPhone transcribes every meeting live and labels the speakers itself
Enterprise
For companies and teams.
- Speech recognition runs on each person's device. Your audio, transcripts and notes stay on that device.
- Buying for several people? Tell us what you need.
sales@privatewispr.com
iPhone: the app is coming soon, with its own plans through the App Store. A Mac licence will not unlock it.
Prices in US dollars. The Mac trial starts inside the app, with no card. Online checkout for a Mac licence key opens at launch with the App Store listing. Cancel any time on iPhone in Settings, or on Mac in Polar's customer portal. Your access runs to the end of the period you paid for. See refunds and cancellation and the terms.
Common questions.
Anything else? Write to support@privatewispr.com or read the support page.
Download it. Then turn Wi-Fi off.
After the first model download, dictation, cleanup and meeting notes keep working with no connection at all.
- macOS 15 or later
- Apple silicon (M1 or newer)
- Free plan, no account