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HoldTalk

Hold fn, speak, and the text appears in any Mac app

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HoldTalk is dictation for the Mac without a subscription. Hold the fn key, speak, and the text appears at the cursor in any app. Transcription runs on your Mac with Apple's speech engine, with a personal dictionary and a searchable history. 7 days of Pro free, then 2,000 free words a week or Pro once for 19 EUR during the launch.

PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 63 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views

Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Communication
  • Prosumer
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Writing

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a native Mac app that uses a global fn-key hold, Apple's built-in speech recognition, and a text-insertion step. Swift with the Speech and Accessibility APIs is well documented for AI-assisted coding.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 750 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #69 of 751 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 354 days after the earliest competitor.

  • SpeechFast · ph · 2026-10-18 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • Parroting · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • FnScribe · hn · 2026-08-28 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • Lowspeak · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • Babblekey · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • hushtype · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62

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