Speak instead of typing, in any app.

No. Your speech is transcribed on your Mac, and the temporary recording is deleted afterward. Activation and license checks send Polar, our licensing provider, only your license key and the identifiers of Whispy and this Mac’s activation. Whispy sends no audio, transcript, or usage data anywhere. AI cleanup runs on your Mac too, and your Stats are counted and kept on your Mac only.

Press ⌥Space in any app and speak. Press it again, and Whispy transcribes your speech on your Mac and pastes the text into the input you are in. The text is also on your clipboard. Whispy never presses Return, so you decide when to send.

Every feature is free for your first 5,000 transcribed words, with no card, no account, and no time limit. After that, new dictation stops until you buy a license. Nothing is charged, and your settings, models, and Vocabulary stay.

Yes, after setup. Whispy needs the internet to download a model, to buy and activate, and to update. Dictation itself happens on your Mac and needs no internet. The subscription terms say how a subscription stays active.

Only if you turn it on. By default, Whispy writes what you said. Turn on AI cleanup in a profile, and a local model on your Mac tidies punctuation and filler in the tone you choose: Formal, Casual, or Very casual. History keeps what you said before cleanup. The “Terminals & agents” profile keeps cleanup off, so prompts arrive word for word.

Not yet. Windows is coming soon, and Whispy runs on Macs with Apple Silicon today. Get an email when the Windows version is ready.

Whispy needs a Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 15.7.8 or later. Intel Macs are not supported. We have not yet tested it on an M1 Mac with 8 GB of memory, so we make no claim for that configuration. The free trial is the best way to check it on yours. On Windows? Get an email when it is ready.

Figures are single measurements on an Apple M4 Pro with 48 GB of memory. Your Mac can be slower or faster.Parakeet v3 · fast · recommended ≈469 MB one-time download. Adds ≈23 MB while loaded (29 MB no-model baseline) — separate from download size. Cached load ≈0.6 s; ≈60 s of dictation → ≈0.2 s transcription-to-clipboard. Apple M4 Pro/48 GB, single samples. Silence stays empty (“No speech detected”); background speech does not leak in. Keeps instruction verbs. Numbers arrive as words and acronyms may need spacing fixes — recurring names go in Vocabulary. Language: automatic · 25 languages.Large v3 Turbo · balanced · slower alternative ≈1.58 GB one-time download; first setup takes ≈76 s downloading plus ≈173 s first load. Adds ≈60 MB while loaded (29 MB no-model baseline) — separate from download size. Cached load ≈2.7 s; ≈60 s of dictation → ≈2.2 s transcription-to-clipboard, just above the fast-model target before the paste tail — ordering only. Apple M4 Pro/48 GB, single samples. Digits-style numbers. Lowercase polish and an occasional invented “Thank you.” on silence need cleanup; one agent instruction lost its verb. Recurring names go in Vocabulary. English · auto-detect available.

English is the supported language. The recommended model detects other languages automatically, and they may work, but we make no quality claim for them.

Not reliably yet. For example, “src slash api dot ts” may not become src/api.ts. Vocabulary replaces phrases you say often with your own spelling, which helps with names and terms, but it is not shown to fix paths.

Never. Whispy pastes the text and stops. You decide when to send.

A license is for one person on up to three Macs. To move it, release a Mac in Whispy’s License settings or in the customer portal. No account is needed.

A one-time purchase that includes all future updates for the life of the product, with no paid upgrades later. See the lifetime terms.

Yes, on any plan. Email [email protected] within 30 days of your first purchase for a full refund, no questions asked. See the refund terms.

Open the customer portal, enter your purchase email and the code sent to it, and the portal shows your key. It is also where you manage your subscription.