A voice-driven daily document

Speak Now. Refine Later.

Speak your day into a clean markdown file on Mac or iOS. Read it, edit it, share it. It works on its own, and it opens in VS Code, Obsidian, or any tool you point at it.

Use the recorder switch or a hotkey. Talk, and the words land where the cursor is.

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Works on Mac and iOS. Your voice never leaves your device. No account required.

Your words appear. As you speak.

SpeakWith for Mac in live dictation: spoken words landing as transcribed lines under a live waveform, ready to type into another app. — Speak, and watch the subtitles for your thoughts take shape before the idea slips away.

Two apps, one voice

A recorder for the desk, a companion for everywhere else

SpeakWith is a voice recorder. It is tuned for speech and dictation, the way a person actually talks, not for capturing music or ambient sound.

The studio

SpeakWith for Mac

Live and batch recorders, audio and video import, and a choice of transcription engines: Apple on-device, Whisper, or Parakeet. Every recording lands in your daily document, with playback you can click straight into. The direct build can also type finished phrases into the app you are already using.

Live and batch recording
Hands-free standby when you want it
Type into app (direct build)
Projects with separate folders
Import audio and video
Apple, Whisper, and Parakeet engines

The companion

SpeakWith for iOS

A voice recorder for when you are away from the desk. Live dictation, a dictation board that collects what you capture, and your transcripts and audio files kept close. Transcription runs on-device with Apple Speech.

Live dictation
Dictation board
Transcripts and audio files
On-device Apple Speech
English today, more languages in development

Type into app

Talk. The words land where the cursor is.

On the direct Mac build, turn on the recorder switch or a hotkey. SpeakWith types finished phrases into whichever app has focus.

A real take: SpeakWith typing into Messages as each utterance settles.

Live dictation

Fix lines as they land.

Wrong word? Wrong line? Edit or remove it while you are still recording. No need to wait for a finished take.

SpeakWith live dictation showing a line marked for removal: This line does not belong here, with the minus control highlighted beside the timestamp. — Drop a line that does not belong with the minus tool, still mid-session.

SpeakWith live dictation with one line open for inline editing: the text The metering is at tree o'clock is in an edit field with Save and Cancel, while recording continues. — Tap a line, fix the wording, save. The take keeps going.

More of the Mac app

Recordings, daily document, playback, and projects.

The SpeakWith job queue: a day's recordings grouped by date, each row showing its transcription status. — All your recordings summarized in one place, grouped by day. Click any row to review it in detail.

SpeakWith live dictation beside macOS Messages: the typing switch is on, and the same spoken lines appear as delivered iMessage bubbles. — Use the recorder switch or a hotkey. Words appear in whichever app you are using.

The day's dictation as a markdown file open in VS Code: a dated daily document of transcribed notes. — Everything lands in a plain .md file, ready to open in any editor.

A finished transcript open in SpeakWith: timestamped lines beside an audio player, ready to click a line and jump to that point in the recording. — Click any line to jump straight to that moment in the recording.

SpeakWith Settings showing several named projects, each with its own transcript folder and color. — Set up separate projects and point each one at its own folder.

The project switcher menu open, listing projects with the active one checked and color tinted. — Switch between projects in a click to send new work to the right folder.

Your words stay on your Mac. Plain files, no account.

Local.

Your recordings never leave your machine. Period.

Markdown.

A plain .md file on disk. Open it in VS Code, Obsidian, or any editor. Feed it to any tool.

No account.

No login. No subscription cloud. No data trade.

On your computer.

Transcription and summarization run on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded. Ever.

For the AI-skeptical, too

You don't have to talk to AI to use this.

SpeakWith works on its own. Speak, get a clean markdown file, then edit it, search its text, and share it. Keep it that way for as long as you like.

The file is also something you can hand to an AI when you decide that's useful. AI is a thing the file can do, not a thing you have to do.

What SpeakWith does

A document for every day

Everything you record or type on a given day flows into a single organised document, in the order it happened. Tomorrow, a fresh one begins.

Type into app

Turn on the switch in the live recorder, or set a hotkey in Settings. SpeakWith types each finished phrase into the app with focus. Available in the direct (Gumroad) Mac build.

Bring in audio & video

Drop in a voice memo, a recorded call, or a screen recording. SpeakWith writes it up and folds it into your daily document like anything else.

Speak and keep working

Speaking and working no longer take turns. Your dictation flows into the document on its own, so you can organise sections, paste in snippets, or type something completely different at the same time, without interrupting the words you're capturing.

Speaking rhythm, on screen

A live meter shows the pauses inside what you are saying. Over time, that quiet feedback shapes how you speak: you hold a topic together longer, and the text on the other end gets easier to work with.

Work at twice the pace

Like having an extra pair of hands

Most tools force you to shift your focus from thinking to operating an application. SpeakWith removes that friction. Every recorder lives in the same application, and what you capture writes out to the project you have selected.

You can control SpeakWith with a remote microphone, so you never need to touch the keyboard, and there is no key to remember before you start recording. On the direct build, turn on the recorder switch or a hotkey and speak into the app you are already in.

Practice, every time you speak

The longer you use it, the better you speak.

While you record, a small meter shows the pauses inside what you are saying. Over weeks, the effect adds up. You notice when a thought starts to fragment, you stay on a topic a beat longer, and the next time you do it a little more cleanly.

The text on the other end changes too. Single topics arrive in coherent pieces, and paragraphs hold together, so your daily document is something you can hand to a person or a tool without reshaping it first.

Built for how real work happens

The home base your thinking returns to

Real work runs in parallel. You start something that takes time to come back: a long process, a tool working away, a task you've handed off. Instead of waiting, you begin the next thing, then another. Before long, several are in flight at once.

Tools come and go; your daily document stays. It is the one place that holds every thread in a single file that is yours: what each one is for, where you left it, what to check when it lands. You can keep many things moving at once because you are not holding them all in your head.

Frequently asked questions

Does SpeakWith need an internet connection?

No. Recording, transcription, organising your daily document, and searching its text all happen on your Mac. SpeakWith does its core work offline.

Where are my recordings and documents stored?

As ordinary files on your Mac. You can open, copy, back up, and delete them with any tool you like. They are not locked inside the app or held in an account.

How accurate is the transcription?

Automatic transcription is very good but never perfect. Names and specialist terms are the usual places small errors appear. Your daily document is fully editable, so treat the transcript as an excellent first draft you can correct.

Does using SpeakWith change how I speak?

It can, through quiet feedback. While you record, a small meter shows the pauses inside what you are saying, something you can glance at without breaking your train of thought. Over weeks, you may hold a topic together longer and let it land in a single, coherent piece. Your daily document gets easier to work with, and so can the way you speak to people away from the screen.

Can I import audio and video I already have?

Yes. Import a voice memo, a recorded meeting, or a screen recording, and SpeakWith writes it up the same way it writes up a live recording.

Can I keep working while a recording is written up?

Yes. That is one of SpeakWith's best features. Type and paste into the day's document while dictation is still processing; everything ends up in the correct chronological order.

Can I dictate into other apps?

Yes, on the direct (Gumroad) Mac build. Turn on the recorder switch, or set a hotkey in Settings. SpeakWith types each finished phrase into whichever app currently has keyboard focus. Your daily document still receives everything as usual. The sandboxed App Store build cannot do this; macOS does not allow cross-app typing from sandboxed apps.

Is there an iOS app?

It's on the way, and it will be free. SpeakWith for iOS is a companion voice recorder: live dictation, a dictation board that collects what you capture, and your transcripts and audio files on hand. It transcribes on-device with Apple Speech, and it works alongside the Mac app rather than replacing it.

On iOS, the permission prompt says speech is "sent to Apple". Is my voice uploaded?

No. That line is Apple's standard wording for the speech-recognition permission, shown to every app that asks for it. SpeakWith transcribes on-device using Apple's built-in dictation: your audio is turned into text on your iPhone or iPad. The only thing that downloads is the speech model itself, once. After that, transcription runs on your device.

What languages does SpeakWith support?

English today. Support for more languages is in development, and they will arrive in updates as they are ready.

Is this an audio recorder?

It is a voice recorder. SpeakWith is tuned for speech and dictation, the way a person actually talks, so it does its best work on the human voice. It is not built for capturing music or ambient sound.

Get SpeakWith

SpeakWith runs on Mac and iOS — it needs a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) running macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later, or an iPhone on iOS 26 or later. Download it, grant microphone access, and your first recording is a click away.

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