Voice-to-text that runs entirely on your Mac. No cloud, no account, no subscription. You buy it once and it's yours.
Map it to any shortcut. Tap to toggle, or hold for push-to-talk. Works from any app on your Mac.
Ramble, pause, change your mind. No length limit. oto runs the speech model right on your device.
Clean, formatted, punctuated text lands at your cursor, in whatever app you were already typing in.
No cloud, no account, no telemetry. Your recordings stay on your device.
Tap, hold, or double-tap to talk. Map recording to any shortcut you like.
Choose Whisper, Parakeet v3, or Apple SpeechAnalyzer for the job.
Speak in your language, mix languages, or translate to English with Whisper.
Words appear right where your cursor is. Clipboard restored after.
Drop in WAV, MP3, M4A, AIFF, AAC, FLAC, CAF, MP4, MOV, and more.
Review recent transcriptions, replay audio, and re-paste from the menu bar.
Enhance text locally with Ollama or bring your own OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini key.
Your $8 also gets you a CLI and an MCP server: pipe transcription into scripts, agents, and editors. Still entirely on your Mac.
Wispr Flow is $12/mo. oto is $8/lifetime. And the developer was super-responsive to my feature requests. It truly has replaced Wispr Flow for me with the same keystrokes, features and quality. Recommended!
This app is blazing fast and super easy to use. It's all local all the time. No annoying subscription. Really great work and love seeing all of the updates.
This app works wonderfully. I'm even writing this review with my voice. It works perfectly. I love it, it's incredible.
Sleek interface, really loved it. Also offers a lot of functionality such as local AI model integration.
When did we agree to rent our own voice?
I built oto after a “free” dictation app turned out to be an upsell shell. It bothered me enough that I spent my nights building the tool I actually wanted: dictation that runs on the Mac I already own, keeps my voice on my hardware, and doesn't ask for rent.
Other apps charge up to $200 a year and route your audio through their servers. oto has no servers. Your Mac does the work, so there's nothing for me to meter, nothing to subscribe to, and nothing to collect. One payment, every feature, every future update. That's the whole business model.
Josefthe one person who designs, builds, and answers support for oto
Yes. One payment on the Mac App Store unlocks every feature, including all future updates. No subscription, no upsell, no “pro tier” later.
Completely. The speech engine runs entirely on your Mac. You can be on a plane in airplane mode and it works exactly the same.
Over 100 languages, and you can mix them within a single recording. oto detects and transcribes them on the fly.
Not yet. An iPhone companion for capturing thoughts on the go is in the works, and it will be free when it launches. Today oto is the Mac app: $8 once, dictation into any app you type in, plus file transcription and long-form capture.
Nothing leaves your device. No cloud uploads, no telemetry, no analytics, no account. Apple's App Store privacy label for oto reads “Data Not Collected.” Your recordings are stored locally and you choose how long to keep them.
Use the full features page, comparison page, and support page for deeper details, troubleshooting, and direct email support.
What a year of dictation costs, elsewhere and here.
Not sure? Try the full app free via TestFlight. Full version, no commitment.
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