Voice dictation for macOS
You talk. It types. Nobody’s listening.
Revi turns your voice into text, in every app on your Mac. Everything happens on your computer: no cloud, no account, no curious ears. Pay once — €7.99 — and it’s yours forever, running on free open-source models.
hold ⌥ · speak · release
01 — Features
Fast as a thought, discreet as a note to self.
Instant dictation on your Mac’s Neural Engine: text lands in under half a second — even on a plane.
Hold ⌥ and talk
Release, and the text is already there — in any app. Double-tap for hands-free mode, esc to cancel. No window to open, ever.
Three engines, all on your Mac
Apple (zero download), multilingual Parakeet, and the full Whisper catalog — from Tiny to Large v3. You pick the size-vs-quality trade-off that fits your Mac.
Switch languages? It just notices
English, italiano, română — dictate in whatever language comes out, and Revi detects it automatically. 25+ languages, zero settings to touch.
Live typing, as you speak
Words appear right in the field you’re writing in, while you’re still talking. Like having fingers faster than your voice.
Smart cleanup, no cloud
“Uhm”, hesitations and false starts vanish; punctuation and casing fix themselves — with Apple Intelligence, on device. And a mathematical guard ensures your words stay yours: never paraphrased.
It knows when to stay quiet
Password field? Revi stops and types nothing. A courtesy no other dictation app bothers with.
02 — Clipboard
Everything you’ve copied. One keystroke away.
Revi quietly remembers everything you copy or cut — up to 10,000 items, screenshots included, even the ones macOS saved as files. Press ⇧⌘V: the list appears with the first item already selected. Type to filter, ↑↓ to move, ⏎ to paste. Your mouse never gets involved. And of course: passwords copied from password managers are never recorded, and nothing ever leaves your Mac.
press ⇧⌘V · type to filter · ⏎ pastes
03 — Privacy
Your voice is not a data point.
The famous dictation apps upload your audio and screen context to their servers — and charge you $15 a month for the privilege. Revi was built to do the opposite.
The other apps
- Audio and screenshots sent to their servers
- Account and login required
- ~$15/month subscription, forever
- 550 MB app burning CPU even when idle
- Offline = useless
Revi
- Everything on your Mac: your voice never leaves
- No account, no telemetry
- €7.99 once, free models forever
- 12 MB, zero idle footprint
- Works perfectly offline
04 — Pricing
An honest number.
No subscription for local features: what runs on your Mac costs us nothing, so we won’t charge you for it every month.
● One-time
€7.99once, forever
All of local dictation, with no expiry and no account.
- Three on-device engines + the full Whisper catalog
- 25+ languages with automatic detection
- Clipboard manager: 10,000 items, screenshots included
- Live typing, personal dictionary, AI cleanup
- Updates included · works offline, forever
Coming soon
€9.99per month, if you need it
The Cloud plan, for absolute maximum quality.
- OpenAI Whisper with our key: zero configuration
- Language switching even mid-sentence
- Advanced rewrites (“make it a formal email”)
- 20 hours of transcription per month
- Here too: your texts are never stored
05 — FAQ
The things you’d ask.
Really nothing goes through the cloud?
Really. Speech recognition, text cleanup and your dictionary run entirely on your Mac, on the Neural Engine. Unplug the Wi-Fi and dictate all the same. The only case where audio travels is the optional Cloud plan — clearly labeled, and even there nothing is ever stored.
What exactly do I get for €7.99?
The app license, forever, updates included. The recognition models (Apple, Parakeet, Whisper) are open source and free: you download them from the app and they’re yours. No recurring cost, no local feature held for ransom.
What Mac do I need?
A Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 26. The biggest Whisper models shine with 16 GB of memory, but Small and Parakeet fly on pretty much anything.
What if a better app comes along?
You spent the price of a pizza, and meanwhile your texts never ended up on anyone’s server. Still sounds like a good deal to us.