A voice-driven daily document
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.
Works on Mac and iOS. Your voice never leaves your device. No account required.
Two apps, one voice
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
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 companion
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.
The actual Mac app, in action.
Local.
Your recordings never leave your machine. Period.
Markdown.
A plain .md file you own. 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 indexing run on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded. Ever.
For the AI-skeptical, too
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.
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.
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.
Type and paste straight into the day's document while your dictation is still being written up. Everything lands in the right place, in the right order.
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
Most tools force a choice: record, then write. SpeakWith removes the "then". The moment you stop talking, keep going. Type the next idea, paste a link, tidy the paragraph above.
Your dictation is still being written up, and when it is ready it slots into the right place, because everything SpeakWith captures carries its moment in time. One pass through your thinking, twice the finished work.
Practice, every time 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.
No. Recording, transcription, organising your daily document, and searching its text all happen on your Mac. SpeakWith does its core work offline.
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.
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.
Many people find that it does. While you record, a small meter shows the pauses inside what you are saying, a quiet form of feedback that you can glance at without breaking your train of thought. Over weeks, you start to hold a topic together longer and let it land in a single, coherent piece. Your daily document gets easier to work with, and so does the way you speak to people away from the screen.
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.
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.
Yes, and it is 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.
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.
English today. Support for more languages is in development, and they will arrive in updates as they are ready.
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.
SpeakWith runs on Mac and iOS. Download it, grant microphone access, and your first recording is a click away.
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