PRIVATE MAC DICTATION

Your voice,
with a memory.

ParPar types in any app, learns the words you fix, and gives your spoken work a place to live — all on your Mac, with no account and no cloud dictation.

Free during the beta · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon
Local transcription on M1, M2 & M3 — no cloud, no account.

● Dictation stays on-device● No account required● History is opt-in● Built like a Mac app
MORE THAN A MICROPHONE BUTTON

A dictation app you can make yours.

Fast voice input is the starting point. ParPar gets better, more useful, and more familiar as you use it.

01

A little companion that listens.

The floating pill responds to your real microphone, tells you when it cannot hear you, and never steals focus from the app you are working in.

  • Hold-to-talk or tap-to-toggle
  • Five waveform styles and nine screen positions
  • Fourteen parrot accessories, because work can have a pulse
02

Fix a word. Keep the fix.

Press ⌥⌘ Space after a dictation, correct what ParPar got wrong, and choose whether it should remember.

par par→ParPar
See how often every learned word saved you a correction.
03

Find what you said last Tuesday.

Turn on History and every dictation becomes a searchable local corpus you can copy, revisit, or clear.

⌕   launch notes
Slack · 2:14 PM

We should launch the ParPar beta after the onboarding pass…

Off by default. Stored only on your Mac.
04

See what your voice produced.

Words, WPM, time saved, streaks, a one-year activity map, and the words ParPar learned for you. The counters still work when transcript history is off.

FROM VOICE TO CURSOR

Talk. Let go. Keep moving.

1

Hold your shortcut

Use Fn, Right Command, or Right Option anywhere on your Mac.

2

Speak naturally

ParPar listens through the mic you choose and shows the real audio level.

3

Release to type

It cleans the text, applies your dictionary, and puts it at the cursor. If an app blocks insertion, your words stay on the clipboard.

AN HONEST PLACE IN A CROWDED CATEGORY

Different tools win for different reasons.

ParPar is not trying to have the longest feature list. It is trying to be the private Mac dictation app you actually enjoy keeping around.

BUILT IN / OPEN SOURCE

Apple Dictation & Handy

Great when you want free, familiar, or deliberately simple voice-to-text.

Choose them for the shortest path from speech to text.
CLOUD AI

Wispr, Aqua, Willow & Typeless

Strong cross-platform products with languages, rewriting, team features, and broad AI workflows.

Choose them when reach and AI power matter more than staying fully local.
LOCAL POWER TOOLS

VoiceInk & Superwhisper

Deep mode, model, prompt, automation, and file-transcription controls for tinkerers.

Choose them when you want maximum configuration.
THE PARPAR LANE

Private. Personal. Pleasant.

A focused Mac companion that brings local dictation, learned words, opt-in memory, progress, and personality into one approachable app.

Choose ParPar when the way the tool feels matters as much as what it types.
WHAT IS IN THE BETA

Useful now. Honest about what is next.

READY
  • On-device dictation on macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon)
  • Local M1 & M2 transcription engine — no cloud needed
  • Cleanup and personal dictionary
  • Opt-in corpus, stats, and activity
  • Personalized pill and guided setup
NEXT UP
  • Bulk dictionary import
  • Shareable progress cards
  • Published offline and latency proof
  • More app-localization and languages
SMALL BETA. REAL DAILY USE.

Give your voice a place to land.

Join the beta and help shape the Mac dictation app that remembers what matters to you.