Beta for Mac and iPhone
Type at the
speed of thought.
You speak about 3× faster than you type — yet built-in Mac and iOS dictation makes you wish you'd just typed. Speakist actually works: hold a key on Mac or use the Speakist iOS keyboard, and clean text lands at your cursor in any app — for half the price of a subscription.
No credit card. No subscription. Pay only for what you transcribe. Requires macOS 14+ or iOS 17+.
Speech, polished
Talk like you talk. Read like you wrote.
Speakist cleans up filler, false starts, and punctuation automatically. You sound clear — even when you didn't. The polish is optional, tuned to preserve your voice, and runs in milliseconds before the text appears at your cursor.
What you said
hey um can you send me that report from yesterday i think it had the q3 numbers the one we were talking about with sarah
What appears
Hey, can you send me that report from yesterday? I think it had the Q3 numbers — the one we were talking about with Sarah.
What you said
uh okay so the deploy is going to get pushed to friday because the staging tests aren’t ready yet and i don’t want to like rush it
What appears
The deploy is going to get pushed to Friday because the staging tests aren’t ready yet, and I don’t want to rush it.
What you said
thanks for sending those over i’ll take a look this afternoon and uh get back to you by end of day with any questions
What appears
Thanks for sending those over. I’ll take a look this afternoon and get back to you by end of day with any questions.
What's different
Built for people who want a tool, not a platform.
Built-in dictation has been a half-finished feature for years. Subscription tools charge you whether you use them or not. Speakist does one thing — well — and only charges you when you actually use it.
Better than built-in.
Apple’s dictation hasn’t gotten meaningfully better in years — hit-or-miss accuracy, awkward punctuation, no polish. Speakist runs multi-stage state-of-the-art models, so the text reads like you meant it.
Pay only when you dictate.
No subscription. No per-seat fee. About half the price of Wispr Flow at typical use — and when you’re not dictating, your bill is zero.
One gesture. Any app.
Hold ⌃⌘X on Mac. On iPhone, switch to the Speakist keyboard — a dedicated dictation keyboard you install once — and tap-and-hold. No overlays, no AI chat window, no “smart prompts.”
Your voice stays on your device.
Audio is sent to our backend, transcribed, and the result is returned. Neither the audio nor the transcript is ever saved in the cloud — only on your device.
How it works
Three motions. No UI to learn.
One gesture across both platforms. On Mac, a global shortcut you set once. On iPhone, a custom keyboard you install once and switch to whenever you want to dictate.
- ⌃⌘X01
Hold.
Put your cursor where you want text. On Mac, hold ⌃⌘X. On iPhone, switch to the Speakist keyboard and tap-and-hold.
- 02
Speak.
Say what you want to write. Speakist transcribes as fast as you release.
- Let me double-check that number.03
Release.
Text lands at your cursor. No window, no confirmation step, no cleanup. Keep typing.
Pricing
Half the price. No subscription.
Pay only for the words you actually dictate. No monthly commitment, no per-seat fees, no auto-renewing tier you forget about.
Per-word pricing
$0.20/ 1,000 words
Typical light use ~$3.00/mo
500 words/day · 30 days
- 3,000 free words on signup — no card required
- Volume discounts up to 50% on larger packs
- Auto top-up with a monthly cap you control
- Works on Mac and iPhone — same account, same balance
- Custom vocabulary for names and jargon
- Unlimited users per organization
For context: subscription dictation apps run $8–$15 a month flat even if you don't use them. A Speakist user dictating the same 500 words/day pays ~$3.00/mo — and if you take a week off, your bill takes the week off too.
Stop typing at the speed of your fingers.
Sign up, install on Mac or iPhone, start dictating. 3,000 words on the house — enough to find out whether you like it before you pay a cent.