Doctors and healthcare workers
You dictate the report right after the appointment, while it's all still fresh. And it stays on your Mac.
01 · Voice dictation for Mac
Say it.
It's written.
HoldTalk turns your voice into text in every app on your Mac, twice as fast as typing. And your voice never leaves your Mac.
Download for free
Free up to 2,000 words a week. For Macs with Apple silicon running macOS 26 or later.
02 · Save time
Your voice is twice as fast as your fingers.
Typing
52words per minute
This 39-word email: 45 s
With HoldTalk
130words per minute
The same email: 18 s
And over a week?
Move the slider to match how much you write each day.
1 h 27 minsaved every week
66 hover a working year
52 words per minute on a keyboard: the average Aalto University measured across 168,000 people (2018). 130 by voice: the low end of normal conversation speed. Based on a 5-day week and a 46-week year, with proofreading not counted.
03 · Everywhere
Three moves, in any app.
- Click where you want to write
- Hold fn and speak
- Let go: the text is there
Gmail, Outlook, Word, Slack, WhatsApp, the software you use at work: anywhere you can type text.
Talk normally, with no need to say the punctuation. Commas, periods, times and amounts write themselves.
The text shows up about 0.3 seconds after your last sentence. For a long dictation, tap fn once and talk hands-free.
04 · Private
What you dictate stays on your Mac. Apple's speech recognition runs right there on the Mac: no server, no account, and the audio is never recorded.
- 0 servers
- 0 accounts to create
- 0 audio recordings
The app only goes online to activate your Pro key, one time, and when macOS downloads a language the first time you use it.
05 · For you
For people who write all day long.
Lawyers and legal teams
Meeting notes, letters, first drafts: you dictate in one go, then you proofread instead of typing it all.
Consultants and freelancers
Your emails and proposals go out sooner, so there's less to catch up on in the evening.
06 · Get started
Free to try. Pay once for the rest.
Free
€0
- 2,000 words a week, about 15 to 20 minutes of dictation
- French, Spanish and English
- Hands-free mode and recent texts
HoldTalk Pro
€19
During the launch, then €29. Paid once.
- Unlimited dictation
- The same key on 2 Macs
- Upcoming Pro features included: personal vocabulary, text cleanup
- No subscription, no account
At 1,500 words a day, the time you save in a single week is already worth more than the price of Pro, even at €30 an hour. And if HoldTalk isn't right for you, you get your money back within 14 days.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to speak slowly or say the punctuation?
No. Talk the way you would on the phone: punctuation, times and amounts write themselves. Then you read it over, as you would any text.
Which Macs does HoldTalk run on?
Macs with Apple silicon (M1 and later) running macOS 26 or later. The Apple dictation engine that HoldTalk uses does not exist in earlier versions.
Which apps can I dictate into?
Any place you can type text. HoldTalk pastes the text at the cursor, then puts your clipboard back the way it was.
What happens after 2,000 words in a week?
The dictation in progress goes through to the end. You can dictate again on Monday, or right away if you switch to Pro.
Are my texts sent anywhere?
No. The audio is transcribed on your Mac, then deleted. Your last 50 texts stay in the app, on your Mac, so you can find one again if a paste lands in the wrong place. One click clears them.
Do I need to create an account?
No. The free version works as soon as you install it. For Pro, you get a key by email and paste it into the app.
Your next email takes twenty seconds to say.
Try it for free, with no account and no credit card. Pro can wait until 2,000 words a week is no longer enough.