Hold fn and talk.
Let go. It's typed.

Free dictation that runs on your Mac. Your words land at the cursor in any app 0.21 s after you let go, and your voice never leaves your Mac.

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Free and open source · Apple silicon · macOS 26 or later

To:Sam
0.21 s after you let go

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Faster than the paid apps.

Time from letting go to text
Lip Service
0.21 s
Willow
0.37 s
Wispr Flow
0.39 s

Same accuracy. Just faster.

About 98% of words right in all three

Median of 75 dictations each, on one M4 Mac mini. Willow on Pro, Wispr Flow on its free plan. See the test and raw results

Works in any app you type in.

Or let your agent write it.

Two more keys hand your words to the AI agent you already use.

Works with Claude Code Codex Hermes OpenCode Any ACP agent

Your voice never leaves your Mac.

Your audio stays on your MacSpeech becomes text on your Mac's chip. Nothing is recorded to disk or sent anywhere.
Works offline, no accountOne model download on first launch, then dictation needs no internet.
Drafts are cut off from toolsClaude Code and Codex draft with their tools off, and any agent is stopped the moment it starts one.
Open source, MITOne anonymous count a day and an update check, both easy to turn off. Read every line on GitHub.

Install in a minute.

Paste this into Claude Code or Codex

Install Lip Service on this Mac. It's a free, open source dictation app:
https://github.com/hunterbohm/lip-service

Run these steps in Terminal. Tell me what each one does, and stop if a check
fails.

1. Check that this Mac has Apple silicon (`uname -m` prints arm64) and
   macOS 26 or later (`sw_vers -productVersion`).
2. Make a temporary folder. Find the .zip in the latest release with
   `curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/hunterbohm/lip-service/releases/latest`,
   download it with `curl -L`, and unzip it with `ditto -x -k`.
3. Check that the app is the real one.
   `codesign --verify --deep --strict "Lip Service.app"` must pass. Then run
   `codesign -d --extract-certificates=cert "Lip Service.app"` and
   `shasum -a 256 cert0`. The hash must be
   760d91571175800b1e66274c20aad991ce484d1fac366eab7c14d58a8e9feb0b.
4. If Lip Service is running, quit it. Move the app into /Applications,
   replacing any older copy. If there is also a copy in ~/Applications,
   move that one to the Trash, so only one copy is left.
5. The app is signed by its author but not notarized by Apple, so macOS
   would block it. Clear the download flag with
   `xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Lip Service.app"`, open the
   app, and delete the temporary folder.
6. Tell me to finish the setup on the Home page of the Lip Service window:
   allow the microphone, turn on Lip Service under Accessibility, and set
   Keyboard > "Press fn key to" (or "Press 🌐 key to") to Do Nothing. Then
   tell me to wait while the bar downloads the speech model, about 460 MB,
   and how to use it: hold fn, talk, and let go.

It checks the app's signature before installing.

Or install it yourself

  1. 1

    Download the zip and drag Lip Service into Applications.

  2. 2

    Open it. macOS blocks it once, because it isn't notarized yet. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

  3. 3

    Allow the microphone and Accessibility, then hold fn and talk.

Lip Service

Free and local.

Download for Mac

Apple silicon · macOS 26 or later · View the code