Voice Dictation for Mac
You'llneverwanttotypeagain.
Dictate your voice or transcribe meetings with speaker identification — all on your Mac.
See it in action
Watch how Chirp transforms your voice into text
Capture your thoughts.
Up to 190× realtime on Apple Silicon.
Tiny footprint — runs silently in the background. Benchmarks measured on M4 MacBook Air.
Know who said what.
Speaker library grows with every meeting.
100% on-device · Speaker profiles never leave your Mac
Works with every app on your Mac.
No integrations. No plugins. No setup.
If there's a cursor, you can use Chirp.
What users are saying
Trusted by people who'd rather talk than type.
“I voice journal every morning before opening Slack. Twenty minutes, no keyboard, just talking through what's on my mind. The transcripts pile up — best record I've ever kept of how I actually think.”
“My emails are 90% dictated now. Hit the hotkey, talk out what I want to say, paste into ChatGPT to clean it up, send. The whole loop is faster than typing ever was, and the drafts sound more like me.”
“I haven't typed anything longer than one sentence in three months. Emails, Slack threads, AI prompts, journal entries — all dictated. Once you cross over you don't go back.”
“Eight 1:1s a week, all needing notes. I used to write 'someone said X' and forget by Friday whose voice it was. Chirp tags speakers by name now. Not magic — just useful.”
Pay once. Use forever.
Every feature included. No subscription, ever.
Chirp
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- Instant dictation in any Mac app
- Meetings with speaker labels and timestamps
- Speaker library that learns voices over time
- Lives in the MacBook notch — feels native to macOS
- Searchable history with audio playback
- 100% on-device — your audio never leaves your Mac
- One-time purchase. No subscription. Free updates forever.
One-time purchase · No subscription · Lifetime updates
Questions
If you have others, send them to hello@chirpvoice.com.
No. Chirp runs 100% on your Mac — every transcription happens locally with Apple Silicon hardware acceleration. Audio and text never leave your device. (Chirp Cloud is a separate, opt-in add-on coming later for syncing across multiple Macs — end-to-end encrypted, your data stays yours either way.)
Solo Mode is for fast dictation — tap a hotkey, speak, and the text appears at your cursor in any Mac app. Tuned for one-shot speed (up to 190× realtime on long-form recordings). Meeting Mode handles longer recordings with automatic speaker labels and timestamps — slower than Solo, faster than uploading to a cloud service, and everything stays on your Mac.
Apple Silicon Macs (M1 or later) running macOS 15 Sequoia or newer. Intel Macs aren't supported — Chirp uses Apple Silicon-specific hardware acceleration for the speed it ships with. Any Apple Silicon Mac (8 GB base or more) has enough RAM for both modes.
Solo dictation is English-only — we use a model built exclusively for English to get the speed and accuracy we ship with. Meeting Mode supports 100 languages (auto-detect or specify). More solo languages may come later.
Only for the initial download and license activation. After that, Chirp works fully offline. Useful for sensitive meetings, on a plane, or anywhere the network is unreliable.
Try it free for 7 days — no credit card, no account. If you buy and change your mind, we offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. Just email hello@chirpvoice.com.
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