Your audio and your text never leave this machine. Not while you dictate, not afterwards, not ever.
Dictate into email, documents, chat or code, and the words land where your cursor already is. The model runs on your machine, not in someone's data center.
Requires Apple Silicon (M1 to M5) and macOS 15 or later. A connection is needed once, to download the AI model you pick.
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Once the model you picked has downloaded, transcription never needs a connection again. Pull the plug mid-sentence and the words still arrive.
Point a firewall at the app and you will see everything it ever asks the network for: the one-time model download, the App Store confirming your purchase, and the license check at launch, which is usually answered from the local cache. What you dictate is not on that list. The audio and the text stay on your Mac, always.
Nothing to sign up for and nothing to log in to. No analytics, no usage tracking, no crash reporting of your own. No exceptions.
Mail, Pages, a code editor, a chat window. The text lands in whatever has focus, as though you had typed it there yourself.
Punctuation, capitals and the obvious slips are fixed while you talk, so you are not editing the transcript afterwards.
Speech is auto-detected across more than 90 languages, and the app's own interface is available in 18.
Drop in an interview or a meeting recording and get the text back, on the same machine, with no upload step.
Local models including NVIDIA Parakeet and Whisper Turbo, compiled for Apple Silicon rather than streamed from a data center.
Legal drafts, clinical notes, unpublished reporting. Work that cannot go to a third-party server is the reason this app exists.
Written to be useful rather than flattering, including the cases where the other app is the better buy.
Everything is bought through the Mac App Store, so canceling and refunds go through Apple.
For a single project, or to try it properly before committing.
Subscribe on the App StorePay once and keep it, including the updates that follow.
Buy Lifetime on the App StoreThe monthly and yearly plans start with a one-month free trial. Lifetime is a single purchase with no trial, which is how the App Store handles one-off purchases.
VocoSafe AI is written and supported by Oleksiy Krotov, an independent developer. There is no team, no help desk and no ticket queue: a support request goes to the person who writes the code.
On the Mac, the app is distributed through the Mac App Store. Apple reviews every update for security before it reaches you, and payment is handled securely by Apple. Every version that has shipped is listed in the changelog, with the date it went out.
