Features
Everything Dicta does, and how it does it without a server in the loop.
Dictation everywhere
One hotkey activates Dicta in any text field on macOS: your editor, your inbox, your terminal, your browser. Press, speak, and the text lands exactly where your cursor was.
Corrections & My Words
Dicta learns the names, product terms and abbreviations you use and applies them on every future dictation, without repeating yourself. Filler words ("um", "uh", false starts) are removed automatically.
Learn more about My Words →Writing styles per app
Dicta can rewrite your dictation to match where it is going: casual in chat, precise in your ticket tracker, formal in e-mail. The rewrite runs locally, using the same on-device model as everything else.
Learn more about Writing Styles →Statistics & Streaks
Words, WPM, filler words removed, streaks, badges and personal records, all computed and stored on your Mac. On by default, with an off-switch at every tier.
Learn more about Statistics & Streaks →History
Every dictation stays on your Mac, searchable, in a local history you can review, edit or delete. It is never uploaded to build that history.
Offline by construction
Dictation, corrections and AI rewriting need no network connection at all. The only network calls Dicta ever makes are documented on the Privacy page, and none of them carry your audio or text.
Select and Speak (included with Pro)
Select any text in any app, hold the hotkey, and say what you want done, rephrase, add bullets, translate, fix the tone: Dicta rewrites the selection on-device and pastes it back in place.
Learn more about Select and Speak →Dicta Meetings (included with Pro and Team, at launch)
Local meeting transcription, speaker detection and AI notes, fully on-device: no bot ever joins your call, and nothing about a meeting leaves the machine it was recorded on.
Learn more about Dicta Meetings →Screen Capture & Guided Tours (included with Pro, rolling out)
Record your screen, a separate audio track, and every click and keystroke with exact timestamps, all on your Mac, combined into one markdown timeline Claude can turn into a guided tour or step-by-step doc. Announced, not shipped yet.
Learn more about Screen Capture & Guided Tours →Privacy Mode (included with Pro and Team, on by default)
The instant you share your screen, Dicta hides your dictation history, statistics and meeting transcripts behind a placeholder, then brings them back the moment sharing ends. Detection and hiding both happen on your Mac, and nothing about it touches the network.
Learn more about Privacy Mode →Dicta Transcribe (included with Pro and Team)
Turn audio and video files you already have into text, entirely on your Mac: chunked progress on long files, cancel any time without losing what is already done, every transcript saved to your history.
Learn more about Dicta Transcribe →Dicta MCP (included with Pro and Team)
Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Cursor can launch Dicta's tiny dicta-mcp binary themselves and read your dictation history over stdio: no network listener involved, read-only, and your audio is never exposed.
Learn more about the local MCP server →Join the waitlist
Dicta is in preview. Leave your e-mail to join the waitlist. We only ever e-mail you about the launch, and you can leave anytime.
We store only your e-mail address and the opt-in timestamp. No marketing automation, no third parties.