Overview

Voibe is a private, fully offline dictation app for Mac that lets you type up to 5x faster with your voice in any application. Hold the Fn key (or a custom hotkey), speak naturally, and release to instantly insert clean, well-punctuated text wherever your cursor is — in Slack, Notion, VS Code, ChatGPT, email, or any other app. Powered by OpenAI's latest Whisper speech-recognition models optimized for Apple Silicon, Voibe delivers 97%+ accuracy with sub-300ms latency while processing every recording locally in RAM. Audio never leaves your Mac — nothing is uploaded, stored, or used to train models, and no account or internet connection is required — making it well suited to privileged, client-confidential, and NDA-protected work. Beyond basic transcription, Voibe includes live dictation, a hands-free continuous mode for longer sessions (up to 5-minute stretches), a custom dictionary for names, jargon, and acronyms, spoken punctuation (say "comma" or "open paren" instead of typing symbols), and Memory shortcuts that expand into frequently used text, URLs, signatures, and prompts. Its standout Developer Mode is unique among dictation apps: it resolves file names, folder paths, and variable names as you speak inside Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf, making it ideal for dictating code comments, documentation, and AI prompts. Trusted by 3,000+ professionals — engineers, lawyers, doctors, and writers, plus users at companies like Amazon, Netflix, NVIDIA, and PwC — and rated 4.8/5 on Product Hunt, Voibe offers a 7-day free trial (no credit card required) and a 30-day money-back guarantee, with monthly ($7.50/mo), annual, and one-time lifetime ($149) pricing.

Pricing: $7.50/month

Minimum macOS: 13.0 (Ventura)

Architecture: Apple Silicon

Key Features

Push-to-talk dictation - hold a hotkey, speak, release to insert text
97%+ accuracy with sub-300ms latency, no time limits
Fully private and offline - audio is processed locally in RAM and never leaves your Mac
No account, no internet, no cloud, and no third-party AI providers required
Powered by OpenAI's latest Whisper models optimized for Apple Silicon
Works in every app on your Mac - Slack, Notion, VS Code, ChatGPT, email, and more
Live dictation and a hands-free continuous mode for longer sessions
Custom dictionary for specialized terms, names, jargon, and acronyms
Spoken punctuation - say 'comma' or 'open paren' instead of typing symbols
Memory shortcuts that expand into frequently-used text, URLs, signatures, and prompts
Developer Mode resolves filenames, folder paths, and variables in Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf
Trusted by 3,000+ professionals and rated 4.8/5 on Product Hunt
7-day free trial (no credit card) with a 30-day money-back guarantee