Dictate where you type.

A no-frills macOS dictation app that lives in your menu bar. Hold a key, speak, release — your words appear wherever your cursor is.

Get Vagudukai — $1.99 How it works

One-time $1.99 · Secure checkout via Stripe · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon

How it works

Three keys, no friction.

Pick a key in Settings. Hold it. Speak. Release. The transcript pastes into whatever app has focus.

1

Hold

Hold your dictation key from anywhere on macOS. A small HUD shows the audio level so you know it's listening.

⌘ Right Command
2

Speak

Talk naturally. Transcription happens locally on the Apple Neural Engine, or via your OpenAI / Groq key — you choose.

Mic
3

Release

Your words paste into the focused app. Snippets expand. Optional AI cleanup tightens the prose.

Paste ⌘V
What's inside

Built for the way you work.

Everything you need in v1, nothing you don't.

Local transcription

NVIDIA Parakeet TDT v3 running on the Apple Neural Engine. Zero network. Zero API cost. Your voice never leaves the device.

Cloud option

Bring your own OpenAI or Groq key for faster cloud STT. Keys live in your macOS Keychain — we never see them.

AI cleanup

Optionally route every transcript through an LLM to strip filler words, fix punctuation, and tighten phrasing. Adds 300–800 ms.

Snippets

Say "my email", get alice@example.com. Case-insensitive, whole-word match. Import from your contact card with one click.

Secure snippets

Cards, codes, passphrases — stored in Keychain, never logged. A confirm-before-paste toast shows a hint, not the value.

Selection rewrite

Highlight any text, hold your key, say "make this more formal" or "translate to Spanish". The selection is rewritten in place.

Pricing

One-time payment.

Pay once, own forever. No subscriptions, no accounts, no nags. Secure checkout via Stripe.

$1.99USD
One-time payment · All future v1.x updates included
Buy Vagudukai — $1.99
  • ✓Signed and notarized by Apple — double-click installs
  • ✓Works fully offline (local mode)
  • ✓No telemetry, no analytics, no account required
  • ✓Source available for security review on request
Heads up: on first launch, macOS may ask you to grant Microphone, Accessibility, and Input Monitoring permissions. All three are required to capture audio and paste your transcript back into the focused app. Vagudukai never reads your screen or other apps' content.