Speak, and it’s written.

Free, on-device dictation for Mac and iPhone. Press a hotkey, talk, and the text appears wherever your cursor is.

Where will you use it? Both free · Mac: Apple Silicon, macOS 14+ · iPhone: App Store
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Press your hotkey

From any app. Toggle, or hold for push‑to‑talk.

Speak naturally

No length limit. esc cancels anytime.

Text appears

Pasted at your cursor, in whatever app you’re in.

Everything happens on your Mac.

On-device transcription
Audio is transcribed locally on the Apple Neural Engine. Nothing crosses the network — run Little Snitch and you’ll see silence.
Works in every app
One global hotkey. Mail, Slack, your editor, a web form — if it has a cursor, Jot types there.
Rewrite by voice
Select any text, speak an instruction — “make this friendlier” — and it’s rewritten in place. Uses Apple Intelligence on-device by default.
Speak your prompts
Long AI prompts are painful to type. Dictate them straight into ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor — and Rewrite can reshape a rambling thought into a clean, structured prompt.
Searchable history
Every dictation is saved locally. Replay the audio, search transcripts, re-transcribe with a different model.
On your iPhone, too
Jot Transcribe is a free dictation keyboard for iPhone. Switch to it from any app, tap Dictate, and speak into the field you’re in. Same rules as the Mac: no account, no cloud, nothing leaves the device.
Free. Actually free.
MIT-licensed and open source. No subscription, no usage limits, no account. Your Mac already has the hardware — Jot just puts it to use.

No cloud. No account. No telemetry.

The leading dictation apps charge $144 a year and route your voice through their servers. Jot costs nothing and runs on your Mac’s Neural Engine. Optional AI features default to Apple Intelligence on-device; cloud providers are strictly opt-in, with your own key. Read the source — it’s all there.

Install in under a minute.

On the Mac, the setup wizard walks you through permissions, the model download, and a test dictation. On iPhone, it’s a keyboard — enable it and dictate into any app.

Download for Mac Get it for iPhone
Mac: Apple Silicon, macOS Sonoma 14.0+ · iPhone: free on the App Store