Speech recognition stays on your hardware.
A bundled Whisper model processes speech directly on your Mac. Your recording is not uploaded for transcription.
Private dictation for Mac
Speak freely.
It stays with you.
FnScribe turns your voice into text entirely on your Mac. No account, no cloud transcription, and no archive of what you said.
Early English release · Mac only
Listening on this Mac
fn
Release to place your words at the cursor.
Processed here.
Nothing sent away.
- On-device transcription
- No account
- No cloud speech service
- No transcript history
Private by design
From your voice to your cursor.
Nowhere else.
Your words take a simple, local path. FnScribe does not need to know who you are—or send your voice to a server—to help you write.
Your voiceCaptured while you hold fn
Your MacWhisper runs locally
Your wordsPlaced at the cursor
There is no transcript archive.
Audio and recovery text live in memory, not a notes database. Recovery text disappears when FnScribe quits.
No identity. No analytics.
There is no sign-in, advertising SDK, cloud speech service, or usage tracker quietly watching in the background.
Your clipboard comes back.
For broad compatibility, FnScribe briefly uses a concealed clipboard entry and restores your prior contents when safe.
One gentle shortcut
Keep your hands—and your thoughts—moving.
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Place your cursor
Start in the text field where your words should appear.
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Hold fn and speak
Or press fn + Space when you want hands-free dictation.
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Release to write
FnScribe transcribes locally and inserts the result at your cursor.
Quietly useful
The small details that make dictation feel natural.
Write across your Mac
Use one familiar shortcut in native apps, browsers, terminals, and other text fields.
Thoughtful text cleanup
Spoken punctuation, lists, conservative filler removal, and explicit corrections—all handled locally.
Your personal dictionary
Teach FnScribe names and exact capitalization. Every entry stays in your local settings.
A calm recovery path
Copy or retry the latest in-memory transcript if automatic insertion ever misses.
Early release · Mac only
A quieter way to write is ready to try.
FnScribe is currently an early English-language release for Mac. Expect active iteration and the occasional rough edge.
- Made for
- Mac only
- Language
- English
- Privacy
- Fully local
- Permissions
- Microphone + Accessibility