Pickclip is on a mission to make your Mac better and easier to use. We started with copy & paste, but now we're going to do dictation. Why dictation? Sometimes you just need to get a lot of words into your app and typing is just too slow. That's where dictation comes into play.
Why it's time to move from the cloud
Most dictation apps run in the cloud. Part of the reason is because historically we've needed sophisticated AI that couldn't run on your own machine. While this can produce some magical experiences, they do come with a recurring subscription cost. Fortunately for you, there's a better way and that way is to actually use the intelligence already on your Mac.
Why we ❤️ Apple Intelligence
On-device intelligence isn't just for gimmicks; it's a better way of working:
- Popular subscriptions send everything you say to the cloud. We don't. Everything stays on your machine where it belongs.
- Run it offline. The speech model for your language is fetched from Apple once, the first time you dictate. After that, dictation works with the Wi-Fi off.
- Custom actions. Once you record what you have to say, you can chain it with custom actions. Want to translate everything you say into French? No problem — Pickclip will do this without ever leaving your machine.
More than just a transcript
A dictation app's job ends in one place: it types the words into the field that has focus. Which is fine, until you notice how often the raw words aren't what you wanted. You rambled. It's in the wrong register for the person you're writing to. It should have gone to Notes, not into this reply box. It needs to be in Spanish.
Pickclip catches the transcript before it goes anywhere, which makes it ordinary clipboard material. Stop talking and you can copy it, keep it as a clip in your history, send it to Notes, or write it to a file. Once it's a clip, every action you've built works on it.
Or skip the chooser. Configure a short pipeline once, and every finished transcript runs through it:
transcript → Fix → paste into the app you were in
That's the thing most dictation apps don't offer: a transcript wired into everything else you do with text.
Ten dollars, once
Dictation isn't an add-on tier or a per-minute allowance. It's included in Pickclip's one-time license, $10 at our current early-user pricing, alongside the clipboard history, the on-device AI actions and the screenshot OCR.
We can price it that way for the same reason we could build it that way: the transcription runs on hardware you already bought. Dictate ten thousand words today and our costs don't move, so your bill doesn't either.
Say the next paragraph instead of typing it.
Press ⌥⇧D in any Mac app, or hold it down like a walkie-talkie, and a live transcript appears at your cursor. On-device, with a personal dictionary that stays on your machine. No account, no subscription, no word caps.
↓ Download for Mac Free 14-day trial · macOS 26+ · Apple Silicon · More about dictationDictation is one way text gets into Pickclip. The more interesting question is what happens to it next — which is what custom actions are for.