There is no mode to pick
Nothing to switch, and no length to declare before you start. It begins transcribing while you are still talking, so a five minute dictation does not leave you waiting once you finally stop.
Local dictation for Mac
The keyboard had a good run.
A word. A sentence. Five minutes of thinking out loud with no idea where it is going. Press the key and talk. The words land in whatever field your cursor was in, punctuated and spelled the way you spell things.
Private beta is open by invitation while final Mac release testing finishes.
Two AI models, both on your Mac
A word to five minutes
Runs on the Neural Engine
Lands at your cursor
No account, no subscription
$14.99 once
Two models. Both on your Mac.
One listens. The other cleans up after it. That second pass is what turns a raw transcript into something you would actually send: commas where you paused, capitals where sentences start, and a repair for the thing you said wrong halfway through.
It reads around your cursor
Drop your cursor into the middle of a sentence and the words arrive lowercase, with no stray period, because Liptyper read the text on both sides first. Start a fresh paragraph and you get the capital and the full stop.
It runs on the Neural Engine
Dictation uses the chip Apple built for this and leaves your GPU alone. Render something, compile something, run a local model, and dictation keeps its pace.
Tap or hold to dictate
Tap once to start and stop, or hold for push-to-talk. If your mouse has a customizable extra button, it can trigger the same shortcut.
It learns your words
Names, acronyms, clients, product names, the spellings you insist on. Add them once and Liptyper types them your way from then on.
Say the symbols
"tilde slash dot claude" becomes ~/.claude, and a spoken filename arrives as a filename. Useful if you spend your day in a terminal, invisible if you do not.
Privacy
Nothing you say leaves this Mac.
Both models run on your machine
No account to create, no upload, and no server holding a recording of your voice. Your Mac is fast enough for this, and you already paid for it.
One price, one time
Buy it once and it is yours. There is no subscription and nothing to cancel.
Your data stays readable
Your vocabulary and your dictation history sit in plain files you can open, edit, and delete. Nothing about what you dictate is written to a log or a notification.
It works offline
Setup downloads the speech model once. After that, dictation works with the wifi off.
Spoken, then pasted
Say it messy. It comes out right.
"move the call to ten thirty"Move the call to 10:30
"so i was thinking maybe we push the launch a week and then do the demo after"So I was thinking maybe we push the launch a week, and then do the demo after.
"wait, no, actually five thirty"5:30, with the slip taken out.
Nothing, because you did not say anythingNothing. Other dictation tools type "Thank you." into your document when the room is quiet. This one listens to the audio before it types a word.
System requirements
Built for modern Apple Silicon Macs.
MacApple Silicon Mac with an M1, M2, M3, M4, or newer Apple chip. Intel Macs are not supported.
macOSmacOS 14 Sonoma or later.
StorageAbout 4 GB of free disk space for the local speech model downloaded during setup.
PermissionsMicrophone, Accessibility, and Automation permissions so Liptyper can hear you, respond to shortcuts, and paste text.
Private beta
Try it before the public release.
$14.99
Paid once, at public launch, for the direct-download Mac app. The private beta is invite-only while final release testing finishes. Liptyper is made by INITIATOR LLC, a Delaware company, and the app is signed and notarized by Apple, so macOS knows who built it before you open it. Support is one person at one address: [email protected].