Launching May 31, 2026 · macOS 13+

Speak, don't type.
Privately.

VOOIS is push-to-talk dictation for macOS. Press ⌘ ⇧ Space, speak, and your words appear in whatever app has focus. The Whisper model runs entirely on your Mac. Your voice never touches a server, ours or anyone else's.

It lives in your menubar.

No window, no Dock icon, nothing to switch to. The whole product is one keyboard shortcut and a small recording pill.

Listening ⌘⇧␣
The recording pill — actual size, actual UI
1

Press the hotkey

Hit ⌘ ⇧ Space from anywhere: Notes, Slack, your IDE, a browser field. The pill appears.

2

Speak naturally

Whisper transcribes your words on your Mac, in real time. Nothing leaves the machine.

3

Text appears

Release the hotkey. The transcribed text is injected into whatever field had focus.

Why this exists.

Cloud dictation works well, but every time I dictated something sensitive (a draft email to a client, notes about a deal, code I was thinking through) I'd remember the audio was being streamed to a server I didn't control. After a while I noticed I was retyping things rather than dictating them, and that felt like the wrong direction.

So I built the version I would actually use. Whisper runs on your Mac through whisper.cpp with Metal GPU acceleration, the audio never leaves the machine, and there's no subscription, because there's nothing on my end to bill for. The work is happening on your hardware, not mine.

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Lorenzo Decaria Building VOOIS · Italy

Typing is slow. Speaking isn't.

People type at around 40 words a minute. They speak at 150. Most of the gap is fingers waiting for fingers: typos, backspaces, glancing at the keyboard. None of that happens when you talk.

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What "private" actually means here.

"We take your privacy seriously" is a sentence that means nothing. Here's what's actually true and verifiable about VOOIS:

01

Your audio never leaves your Mac.

Whisper runs locally. The model file is downloaded once on first launch (~75 MB), then everything happens in memory on your machine.

02

You can verify it yourself.

Open Activity Monitor → Network while dictating. VOOIS makes zero network connections during transcription. The only requests it ever makes are a once-a-day license check and the initial model download.

03

The license server doesn't see audio.

It's a tiny service that does one thing: confirm your $49 license is yours. It can't store what it never receives.

04

No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry.

The free tier doesn't even know who you are. Pro requires only the email you used at checkout, used only for license validation.

Pricing at launch.

You're on the waitlist now, so there's nothing to buy yet. On May 31 you'll get an email with a link and a small early-bird discount. For reference:

Free
$0forever
No signup. Use it without giving us your email.
  • 30 minutes of dictation per day
  • Tiny + Base Whisper models
  • Works fully offline
  • Global hotkey, every macOS app
Pay once
Pro
$49once
No subscription. Use on every Mac you own (one at a time).
  • Everything in Free
  • No daily cap
  • Small + Medium Whisper models, near-human accuracy
  • Lifetime updates

Questions people ask.

What Macs does it work on?
macOS 13 (Ventura) or newer. Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4) is dramatically faster thanks to Metal GPU acceleration on Whisper. It runs on Intel too, just slower.
How accurate is local Whisper, really?
The Free tier ships with the Tiny and Base models, which are fine for general dictation. Pro unlocks Small and Medium, at or near the accuracy of cloud transcription. The trade-off is download size: Tiny is 39 MB, Medium is 769 MB.
Does it work in every app?
Anywhere you can put a cursor: Notes, Slack, VS Code, Mail, browser inputs, the terminal, Notion. It injects text through the standard macOS Accessibility API.
Why one-time pricing instead of subscription?
Because there's no recurring cost on our side. Transcription happens on your Mac, not on our servers. The only thing the license server ever does is confirm your key, which is a one-time event from our perspective. So it's a one-time payment from yours.
What happens when I switch Macs?
Activate VOOIS on the new Mac and the old Mac is deactivated automatically. One active Mac at a time, unlimited transfers, no support ticket required.
Refunds?
Fourteen days, no questions asked. Email support@voois.app with your license key.