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Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Giedrius, an independent developer in the UK, and Dictately is the Mac dictation app I wish had existed.
The idea's simple: hold a key, talk, and clean, formatted text appears wherever your cursor is — email, docs, Slack, your code editor, anywhere you type. No copy-paste, no switching apps.
I built it because I think far faster than I type, and the existing options were either pricey or sent every word to the cloud. So Dictately is:
Just works — install, pick a key, talk. Zero config. Punctuation and filler cleaned up automatically.
Private — English can run entirely on-device on Apple Silicon, so your audio never leaves your Mac. Other languages use the cloud and are discarded, never stored.
99+ languages with automatic detection.
Fair price — £6.99/mo, with a free tier (2,000 words/month, no card). Roughly half the obvious alternative.
Runs on Apple Silicon and Intel — designed & built in the UK.
For Product Hunt: the first 500 supporters can grab a Lifetime licence — pay once, every future platform included (Windows, Linux and mobile are on the roadmap).
I'd genuinely love your honest feedback — what works, what's missing, what would make you switch. I'm here all day 🙏
Dictately looks like a thoughtful product. Huge congrats on launch day! 🚀
the on-device-for-English-but-cloud-for-everything-else split is the one thing that'd make me pause before recommending this to bilingual friends. if I'm dictating in English then switch to Spanish mid-session like the other commenter mentioned, does the whole utterance go to the cloud, or does it split per-word/phrase depending on detected language?
does the transcription and context-aware cleanup run fully on-device or does audio round-trip to a server for the smart formatting step? on-device is the same bar I hold for voice checkins, nothing leaving the phone matters a lot once it's health or work context.
finally a dictation tool that actually nails punctuation when i speak casually, not just when i dictate like a robot. switching between english and spanish mid-sentence worked surprisingly well too.
the context-aware formatting is honestly impressive, like it just knows when to add punctuation without me thinking about it. really clean execution from the team
The context-aware AI actually feels like it understands sentence flow instead of just transcribing words, which is rare for voice tools on Mac. Clean execution.
Tried it for an hour of writing and the context-aware formatting actually nailed my weird mix of markdown and plain text without me correcting anything. Wild how well it picked up technical terms in English even when I was mumbling.
The context-aware formatting is genuinely impressive, it actually knows when to drop in punctuation and capitalise properly without you having to dictate every mark. Feels like the team really thought through the messy middle part of dictation tools that everyone else ignores.
honestly the context-aware formatting sounds great, but i'd love a custom vocabulary feature where i can add technical terms or names it keeps messing up. basically a personal glossary that stays synced across devices. that would honestly make me use it every day
About Dictately on Product Hunt
“Hold a key, talk — clean text in any Mac app”
Dictately was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 23 upvotes and 15 comments, placing #13 on the daily leaderboard. The fastest, most accurate voice dictation for macOS. Speak naturally, get perfect text. 99+ languages, smart formatting, context-aware AI.
Dictately was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (656.7k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (474.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 265.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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