Private voice intelligence for Mac
Hold a key, speak naturally, and watch polished words appear wherever your cursor is. Fast enough to feel like thought.
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Could we move our conversation to Thursday afternoon? I’d appreciate a little more time to review the proposal.
Thursday works perfectly for me! I’ll send the notes over before then.
The best tools disappear into your flow. Today, we’re sharing one built for exactly that.
AirScribe turns natural speech into thoughtful writing without interrupting your flow.
See it in motion
Messy in. Magic out.
AirScribe catches fillers, false starts, punctuation and tone- then shapes the thought for where it’s going.
“Hey, um, can you help me with like writing an email to my boss about, um, vacation?”
“Could you help me write an email to my boss about my upcoming vacation?”
Made for real work
Email, Chat, Post, General- or a mode that’s entirely yours. AirScribe remembers what fits each app.
Teach it the people, products and jargon other tools always get wrong.
Optional local context makes names and intent sharper. Secure fields are always off-limits.
Your default path has nowhere to upload to. That’s architecture, not policy.
Search, replay and export on your terms—with retention you control.
“Could we move our conversation to Thursday afternoon?”
One voice. Three local engines.
AirScribe routes every dictation to the model best suited to it. You get speed for everyday writing, precision for specialist vocabulary, and breadth for the world’s languages.
Instant, efficient, zero-download dictation for everyday work.
Custom vocabulary, Chinese dialects, max accuracy and meetings.
Long-tail languages, code-switching and translate-to-English.
Meetings, made useful
Two audio channels. Clear speaker labels. A live transcript that becomes decisions and action items before the call ends.
Action: You — launch checklist draft by Thu EOD. Decision: Pricing will be finalized with the checklist.
Privacy without fine print
Straight answers
Still curious? Read the architecture and roadmap on GitHub.
Yes. AirScribe is MIT-licensed. Core dictation, all three engines, local cleanup, meetings and history are free. The only thing that can cost money is a cloud API key you optionally bring yourself.
Yes, after any optional one-time model downloads. Transcription, polish, the assistant and meeting summaries can all run on your Mac’s GPU and Neural Engine.
AirScribe targets Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 26. On Macs without a notch, its pill floats at the top of the screen and works identically.
Each permission maps to a feature and is requested only when needed: Microphone for dictation, Input Monitoring for the hold key, Accessibility to type at your cursor, and system-audio or screen access only for meetings or optional context.
AirScribe is fully open source, uses a multi-engine local router, requires no account and has no telemetry to opt out of. Its privacy floor is built into the product architecture.
Its router selects among Apple SpeechTranscriber, Qwen3-ASR and Whisper for each scenario. Custom vocabulary and optional context biasing further improve specialist names and jargon.
Free, open source, and made for Apple Silicon.