Take Dictation
Fast, private dictation for Mac.
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Fast, private dictation. Your words where you want them on your Mac. Finish talking and keep going. Take Dictation puts your words at the cursor, with speech recognition and cleanup happening on your Mac. No upload. No cloud round trip. No chatbot rewriting your sentences. No app account. No subscription.
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PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Yes A Mac dictation app using on-device speech models like Whisper or Apple's Speech framework, with text insertion at the cursor, is buildable in Swift with an AI assistant, though polish takes effort.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #290 of 494 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Murmur · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- VoiceNoodler · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
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- Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Featherweight Dictation · ph · 2026-10-07 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Witness for Mac · ph · 2026-09-23 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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