Aloud

Voice to text for macOS, instantly.

Aloud lives in your menu bar. Press a hotkey, speak, release — your words are typed right at your cursor, in any app. No window to switch to, no text to copy around.

How it works

Hold the hotkey and talk, in any application
Your speech is transcribed by Google's Gemini, with your own API key
The text lands at your cursor the moment you release

Private by design

No account, no servers of ours — audio goes straight from your Mac to the Gemini API
Recordings are deleted immediately after transcription
Your API key stays in the macOS Keychain

Get Aloud

Download Aloud for macOS Free beta · v1.2.1 · macOS 15+ · Apple-notarized. Open the DMG, drag Aloud to Applications.

Questions, ideas, bugs? Email me — beta feedback shapes what ships next.