Ora
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For macOS · Apple Silicon
Talk. It types.
All on your Mac.
Hold Option + Space, speak, and let go — Ora transcribes on-device and drops the text right at your cursor. No internet, no account, no telemetry.
Dictate into any app
Put your cursor anywhere — an editor, your browser, Slack, mail, the terminal — hold Option + Space and speak. Let go, and the text lands right where you're typing.
- Pastes straight into the app you're using — no copy-paste dance
- Prefer to paste it yourself? Turn Auto Paste off to copy to the clipboard
- Hold to talk, or Toggle on and off — cancel any time with ESC
Watch it as you speak
Switch the dictation style to Panel and Ora shows your words forming in real time as you talk. Nothing is typed into your app until you let go.
- Live preview powered by the on-device Parakeet model
- Pill style: a compact waveform capsule at the top of your screen
- Your cursor and existing text stay untouched until you release
Your Mac, your model
Run Parakeet, Whisper, or Qwen entirely on Apple Silicon — or bring your own OpenAI / Groq key when you want the cloud. Download, switch, and delete models any time.
- Parakeet v3 / v2 — the default, with live preview
- Whisper (Tiny → Large-v3-Turbo) via CoreML on the Neural Engine
- Qwen3-ASR via MLX, or your own OpenAI / Groq key for the cloud
Start dictating with Ora
Download it once and talk to your Mac anywhere — fully offline, no account required.
Download Ora
Grab the macOS app, grant mic and accessibility access, and pick your hotkey. You'll be dictating in under a minute.
- Native build for macOS on Apple Silicon
- Hold Option + Space, speak, release — text lands at your cursor
- No account and no setup wizard — download and go
Private by design
Every word is transcribed on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, logged, or sent to a server — Ora keeps working with the Wi-Fi off.
- 100% on-device — your audio never leaves the machine
- Fully offline, on a plane or behind a firewall
- No telemetry, no analytics, no sign-in