The Airplane Mode Test
The dictation app that works with your Wi-Fi off.
Turn off your Wi-Fi. Dicta keeps transcribing, correcting and rewriting -- because none of it ever left your Mac in the first place.
Still transcribing. Still correcting. Nothing changed.
So, um, I think we should uh, ship the the release on friday
I think we should ship the release on Friday.
Three things that are true, and stay true offline
Fully local, including the AI rewrite
Speech recognition, vocabulary corrections and AI rewriting all run on your Mac. No audio upload path exists in the app.
Native Apple Silicon performance
Tuned for M1 through M3 on 8 GB and 16 GB machines -- the Macs Apple’s own on-device dictation left behind.
German + English excellence
Parakeet auto-detects the spoken language and is tuned and benchmarked for German and English, with 23 more languages supported out of the box.
Everything you'd expect, none of it phones home
Dictation everywhere
One hotkey, any text field on macOS -- your editor, your inbox, your terminal.
Corrections & My Words
Teach Dicta your names, jargon and abbreviations once; it keeps getting them right.
Writing styles per app
Casual in chat, precise in your ticket tracker -- Dicta adapts the rewrite per destination.
Local history
Every dictation stays searchable on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to build the history.
Works offline
Turn off Wi-Fi. Dictation, corrections and the AI rewrite keep running exactly the same.
Dicta vs. cloud dictation
| Dicta | Cloud tools | |
|---|---|---|
| Where speech is processed | On your Mac | Uploaded to a server |
| Works with no internet | Yes, fully | No |
| Pricing model | Flat, unlimited words | Subscription + usage caps |
| Data leaves the device | Never (audio or text) | Required for the product to work |
See a detailed, sourced breakdown on Dicta vs superwhisper and Dicta vs Aqua Voice.
Trust, verified rather than promised
Your audio never leaves your Mac. Your text never leaves your Mac. Even the AI rewrite runs locally. Read the full breakdown, including the handful of network calls Dicta ever makes, on the Privacy page.
Join the waitlist
Dicta is in preview. Leave your e-mail and we'll send a confirmation link (double opt-in) -- we only ever e-mail you about the launch.
We store only your e-mail address and the opt-in timestamp. No marketing automation, no third parties.