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Dictation for Mac

Speak, and it’s typed.

Press, talk, let go. Your words appear wherever you’re typing, in any app. Completely local and secure.

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Saywind 1.1.0 · Apple silicon · macOS 14 or later
Free during early access

Saywind runs on Mac. Open saywind.com there to download it.

  • Works offline
  • No account
  • British or US spelling

How it works

Press, talk, let go

A small pill listens while you talk. Let go, and your words land where your cursor is.

The real thing

Saywind’s own screens, drawn from the app’s code with made-up sample text.

The Saywind pill, a small dark capsule with a moving sound wave, over a document.
ListeningThe pill shows Saywind can hear you.
The pill showing three dots while Saywind writes.
WritingLet go, and the dots show it’s writing. Then the pill gets out of the way.
The pill with a small padlock beside the sound wave, for hands-free mode.
Hands-freeDouble-tap to keep listening. Tap again to stop.
A note above the pill: Learned “Tailscale”, was “tail scale”, with an Undo button.
LearningFix a misheard name once, and Saywind learns it, with Undo if it guessed wrong.
Saywind’s window: Home, with words this week, speaking speed and time saved, above a searchable history of dictations.
Your history, on your MacEverything you’ve dictated, searchable, with your week at a glance.
The Insights page: speaking speed against typing, words dictated this week and last, time saved and fixes made.
InsightsYour speaking speed, words dictated and time saved, worked out from your own history.
Settings, Writing: switches for removing filler words, Smart clean-up, formatting lists and paragraphs, and adding a space after each dictation.
Your rulesFillers, Smart clean-up and lists each have their own switch.

Speed

Write with ease

Transcribed right on your Mac. No servers, no waiting.

Clean-up

Tidied before it’s typed

Ums, slips and lists, sorted as you speak.

Features

Built to stay out of your way

No account, no setup beyond two permissions, and nothing to learn but one key.

  • Offline and private

    Speech, learning and clean-up all run on your Mac. No account, no cloud, and your voice and words never leave it.

  • Works in every app

    Mail, Messages, Slack, Notes, your browser, your code editor: wherever you can paste, Saywind can type.

  • Learns your words

    Fix a misheard name once and Saywind remembers the spelling. Add names, jargon and shortcuts to your dictionary too.

  • Smart clean-up

    On macOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence, Apple’s on-device model untangles changes of mind and turns lists you say into bullets, only when it’s needed.

  • Spoken lists

    Say “first … second … third”, “bullet point” or “new paragraph” and get numbers, bullets and lines, instantly.

  • Insights

    Your words this week, your speaking speed and the time you’ve saved, worked out on your Mac from your own history.

  • 25 languages

    English, with British or US spelling, plus 24 more European languages from Dutch and German to Polish and Ukrainian. No switching needed.

  • Hands-free when you want it

    For longer thoughts, double-tap to keep listening, then tap again to stop.

Reviews

Be one of the first to review Saywind

Tried it? Say what works for you and what doesn’t. If you’re happy for your words to be shown, they can appear here.

Early access has only just begun, so there are no reviews yet.

Leave feedback

How quotes are chosen: they come from the feedback form, only from people who ticked “OK to show this on saywind.com”, and the newest come first, whatever their rating. Nothing is edited except trimming, which is marked […]. Everyone quoted is an early-access user, using Saywind free.

Price

Free while it’s early

Free

When Saywind starts costing £25, anyone who installed it during early access keeps it free. On a new Mac, email hello@saywind.com for a free key.

  • Everything Saywind does
  • No account and no sign-up
  • Later: £25, once, with no subscription
Download freeGet it on your Mac

Apple silicon · macOS 14 or later

FAQ

Questions, answered

Does it really work offline?

Yes. Once its speech model is on your Mac, Saywind transcribes, learns and tidies up with no connection at all. Turn off Wi-Fi and it carries on.

It only goes online to download a speech model the first time it’s needed, and for a weekly update check you can switch off.

Which Macs does it run on?

Any Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Intel Macs aren’t supported.

Smart clean-up also needs macOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence switched on. Everything else works without it.

What happens the first time I open it?

Saywind asks for two permissions, the microphone and Accessibility (so it can notice your shortcut and paste for you). Then it downloads its speech model, about 630 MB, and optimises it for your Mac’s Neural Engine, which can take a minute.

That happens once. If you add words to your dictionary, a small word-spotting model (about 100 MB) downloads the first time too.

Which languages does it understand?

25 languages, recognised automatically with no setting to change: English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian.

English can be spelt the British or the American way. Removing fillers, spoken lists and Smart clean-up are made for English.

How much does it cost, and what is early access?

Early access is Saywind’s first public release: the whole app, free, while it’s new.

When Saywind starts costing £25, anyone who installed it during early access keeps it free. On a new Mac, email hello@saywind.com for a free key. The £25 will be a one-off price, not a subscription.

What does Saywind know about me?

Nothing you say or type leaves your Mac. There’s no account and no tracking, in the app or on this website. Your history, dictionary and settings stay on your Mac, and Saywind doesn’t keep recordings of your voice.

The privacy policy sets out exactly when Saywind goes online and what it sends.

How do I send feedback or ask for a feature?

Use the feedback form, which takes a minute, or email hello@saywind.com. Both the good and the bad help.

How do I uninstall it?

Quit Saywind from its menu bar icon, then drag it from Applications to the Bin. To remove everything it kept:

  • delete the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Saywind (your history);
  • run defaults delete com.peiserapcar.saywind in Terminal (your dictionary and settings);
  • delete ~/Library/Application Support/FluidAudio/Models to free the space the speech models use, if no other app uses them;
  • delete “Saywind early access” in Keychain Access, or run security delete-generic-password -s com.peiserapcar.saywind.earlyaccess in Terminal (the date Saywind first ran on this Mac). Without it, this Mac no longer counts as an early-access install when Saywind starts costing £25.

You can also remove Saywind from System Settings › Privacy & Security, under Microphone and Accessibility.

Why does Smart clean-up need Apple Intelligence?

It uses Apple’s language model, which runs on your Mac and comes with Apple Intelligence on macOS 26 or later. It only runs when you correct yourself or say a list, and adds about half a second to those dictations.

Without it, Saywind still removes fillers, fixes simple changes of mind like “at 2, sorry, 3” and formats lists you number out loud, all with its own instant rules.