Everything included · No asterisk

One app.
Every feature.
Zero cloud.

Everything Tellaflow does runs locally on your Mac. No tiers, no add-ons, no features reserved for a Pro plan that doesn't exist.

Download free for Mac

Works on a plane. In a bunker. Underwater (Mac permitting).

No WiFi? Great. Tellaflow doesn't need it. Local processing means full functionality everywhere humans go, including places with terrible or nonexistent internet.

Whisper and Parakeet are downloaded once and run entirely in memory on your device. There's no server to reach, no connection to check, no fallback that silently fails when you're offline. It either works which it always does or it doesn't.

Offline dictation

Speak any of 65 languages. Type English. Fully offline.

Think in one language, output in another without a translation API, without the internet, without telling anyone what you said.

Whisper was built to both transcribe and translate. When you enable Live Translation, it processes your speech and outputs English in the same step no second pass, no external API call. The result appears as fast as standard transcription.

Live Translation deep-dive

Two of the best local speech models. Both free.

Whisper by OpenAI and Parakeet by NVIDIA run on-device. No API keys. No monthly bill. Just your Mac doing what it was built for.

Whisper is the most capable multilingual model available offline. Parakeet is optimised for US English and is often faster. You choose. You can switch at any time. Both run at full speed on M1 through M4 chips.

Model setup guide

Your voice never hits a server. Architecturally, it can't.

Not "we promise to protect your data." Literally impossible for your audio to leave your machine. There's no server to send it to.

Privacy by policy relies on you trusting us. Privacy by architecture doesn't require trust at all there's nothing to breach, nothing to subpoena, nothing to accidentally leak. Open source means you can verify this claim in the code.

Privacy architecture

No server round-trip = nothing to wait for.

Cloud voice tools have latency. Tellaflow doesn't, because there's no cloud. The words appear as you say them.

A typical cloud transcription tool adds 200–800 ms of latency just for the network round-trip, before any processing happens. Local inference on Apple Silicon has no round-trip. Words appear in your text field at roughly the speed you speak them.

Works in every app you already use.

VS Code, Notion, Slack, iMessage, Gmail, Figma, the terminal you keep open but rarely use if you can type in it, you can now speak in it.

Tellaflow uses macOS Accessibility APIs to inject transcribed text into the focused input field. It doesn't need a plugin or integration for each app. If macOS can type in it, Tellaflow can dictate in it which is every app.

Developer workflows

A closer look

Every feature.
Built the right way.

Available now

Handles names.
Nails jargon.

Whisper was trained on 680,000 hours of real-world audio. It knows how to spell Kubernetes, gRPC, and PyTorch because they appear in technical speech throughout its training data.

Where it meets a word it hasn't seen, your personal vocabulary (coming soon) will fill the gap.

Recording…
"We need to update the Terraform config before the Kubernetes cluster auto-scales the PyTorch jobs are already queued in MLflow."
TerraformKubernetesPyTorchMLflowgRPC
Added to vocabulary: "MLflow"
Your Vocabulary12 terms
Just learnedMLflow2s ago
Infrastructure
KubernetesTerraformgRPC
ML / AI
PyTorchMLflowCoreMLParakeetwhisper.cppLangChain
Dev Tools
PydanticZodPrisma
Coming soon

Personal
vocabulary.

Company names. Project codenames. Internal acronyms. Teach Tellaflow the words specific to your world and it'll spell them right every time without retraining a model.

Words you add sync across all your Whisper models automatically.

Coming soon

Say less.
Type more.

Create voice shortcuts for the things you say over and over. Say "standup summary" and Tellaflow inserts a full templated message with your cursor positioned to fill in the blanks.

Works for commit messages, PR descriptions, email replies, incident reports anything you write on repeat.

Your Shortcuts
standup summary↓ expanded

"Yesterday I worked on [task]. Today I'll be focusing on [goal]. No blockers currently."

commit message
pr description
architecture review
incident report
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Languages English
🇫🇷French
🇩🇪German
🇯🇵Japanese
🇰🇷Korean
🇨🇳Mandarin
🇮🇳Hindi
🇧🇷Portuguese
🇷🇺Russian
🇪🇸Spanish
🇸🇦Arabic
🇮🇹Italian
🇹🇷Turkish
🇳🇱Dutch
🇵🇱Polish
🇻🇳Vietnamese
+ 50 more languages supported
Live Translation

65 languages.
One output.

Speak in French, Japanese, or Hindi. Get English text in your app. Whisper's translate mode runs the entire thing in a single inference pass on your Mac no translation API, no round-trip, no one listening.

See all 65 languages

The rest of the list.

There's no Pro tier hiding these. They're all in the free download.

Global hotkey

Trigger transcription from any app without switching focus. Configurable to any shortcut.

Multiple model sizes

Tiny to large trade speed for accuracy based on what you need in the moment.

Model selector

Download and switch between Whisper variants and Parakeet from within the app.

Input device selector

Choose which microphone Tellaflow uses useful with USB mics and headsets.

macOS 13+ support

Requires Ventura or later and an Apple Silicon chip (M1–M4).

No account required

Download, open, dictate. No email, no login, no onboarding survey.

Zero telemetry by default

The app sends nothing unless you opt in to anonymous crash reports.

Open source core

The core app is MIT-licensed and verifiable on GitHub.

What people actually say

I work in an air-gapped environment. Tellaflow is the first voice tool I've been allowed to use. It's changed everything.
Senior Security Engineer
Fortune 500 fintech
The live translation is wild. I speak in Hindi, get perfect English text instantly. Completely offline. No drama.
Head of Product
Bangalore SaaS startup
Switched from Superwhisper. Privacy alone is worth it. Client conversations never hitting a server? Priceless.
Independent Attorney
Solo practice

All of this. Free.
On your Mac.

No account. No API key. No subscription. Just download it.

Download Tellaflow free

Apple Silicon M1+. macOS 13+. 8 GB RAM.