Speak, and it’s wrıtten.

Free, on-device dictation for Mac and iPhone. Press a hotkey, talk, and the text appears wherever your cursor is.

Where will you use it?
Download for Mac Get it for iPhone Windows coming soon
Both free · Mac: Apple Silicon, macOS 15+ · iPhone: App Store · Windows: coming soon Jot Transcribe - Free, on-device dictation for Mac and iPhone | Product Hunt
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Press your hotkey

From any app. Toggle, or hold for push‑to‑talk.

Speak naturally

No length limit. esc cancels anytime.

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Text appears

Pasted at your cursor, in whatever app you’re in.

Everything happens on your Mac.

Private by default
Your voice is turned into text right on your Mac — instantly, and completely private. Nothing is ever sent to the cloud.
Works in every app
One global hotkey. Mail, Slack, your editor, a web form — if it has a cursor, Jot types there.
Rewrite by voice
Select any text, speak an instruction — “make this friendlier” — and it’s rewritten in place. Uses Apple Intelligence on-device by default.
Speak your prompts
Long AI prompts are painful to type. Dictate them straight into ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor — and Rewrite can reshape a rambling thought into a clean, structured prompt.
Searchable history
Every dictation is saved on your Mac. Replay the audio and search everything you’ve ever said.
On your iPhone, too
Jot Transcribe is a free dictation keyboard for iPhone. Switch to it from any app, tap Dictate, and speak into the field you’re in. Same rules as the Mac: no account, no cloud, nothing leaves the device.
Free. Actually free.
Public source code, no subscription, no usage limits, no account — and no catch.

No cloud. No account. No telemetry.

The leading dictation apps charge $144 a year and send your voice to their servers. Jot is free and runs entirely on your Mac — your voice never leaves it. Optional AI cleanup stays private on-device too; any cloud option is strictly opt-in. The source is public — see for yourself. Free for personal use, always.

Install in under a minute.

On the Mac, the setup wizard walks you through permissions, the model download, and a test dictation. On iPhone, it’s a keyboard — enable it and dictate into any app.

Download for Mac Get it for iPhone Windows coming soon
Mac: Apple Silicon, macOS Sequoia 15.0+ · iPhone: free on the App Store · Windows: coming soon
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