Free dictation for Mac and Linux.

No subscription. No account.
No word limit.

Hears

A small native app. Light on memory.

Messy speech. Clean text.

Fillers, repeats, and take-backs are removed.

The flow bar

Every state in one small capsule. Click it.

Listening

Rule cleanup

Fillers and take-backs go.

Heard

Pasted

Any key you like

Pick the keys for every action.

AI cleanup, when you want it

A local model rewrites the text for where it goes.

Heardhi team the docs the tests and the numbers all look good can we ship friday thanks

Command Mode

Select text, hold Right Option + Right Shift, and speak.

History

Search, play, and export what you said.

TXTSRTVTTJSON
A History entry: raw text, text after the rules, after AI cleanup, and final text

Dictionary and word packs

Names and terms, spelled your way.

Manual

Drop audio. It waits in a queue.

Drop audio files here
Interview.wavWaiting

Read aloud

Text, in a voice you pick.

Heart with 30% Adam

Dictionary and word packs

Spells your words right.

Names, places, and terms come out the way you write them. Use your own list, or a word pack.

Command Mode

Edit by voice.

Say the change, and a model on your computer rewrites the selected text in place.

Works offline

No internet needed.

Speech turns into text on your computer. It keeps typing with Wi-Fi off.

Read aloud

Reads text aloud.

Choose a voice, mix two, or clone your own. It reads text from any app.

Free and open source

Free. The code is open.

No subscription, no account, no word limit. The code is AGPL-3.0, so you can read it and change it.

Local models. Downloaded once.

Parakeet hears 25 European languages. Whisper adds Hindi and more. S1-mini tidies the text.

Your voice stays on your computer.

On your computer

Audio and text never leave it, unless you pick an endpoint.

No telemetry

Hushpen sends no usage data. Update checks are opt-in.

Checked downloads

Models download only when you ask, and every hash is checked.

Open source

AGPL-3.0 licensed. Signed and notarized on macOS.

The same app on Linux.

X11 desktops, x64 and arm64.

Download AppImagex64 · 42 MB
Prefer a terminal?

AppImage

chmod +x Hushpen-2.3.3-linux-x64.AppImage && ./Hushpen-2.3.3-linux-x64.AppImage

Ubuntu and Debian

sudo apt install ./Hushpen-2.3.3-linux-x64.deb
Other downloads

Questions.

Answers on privacy, languages, and memory. Not here? Open an issue on GitHub.

Hushpen is free.

Open source, and it runs on your own computer.

Downloading Hushpen 2.3.332 MB. Open it from Downloads, then drag Hushpen to Applications.