Free download for Mac
Dictation that stays on your Mac
Press the right ⌘ key, say what you want to write, press it again. Spunly types it wherever your cursor is. Speech is recognised on the Mac itself, so your voice is never uploaded.
Free · 19 MB · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon
- Recognition
- On the Mac, Neural Engine
- Model
- NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3
- Languages
- 25, detected automatically
- Price
- Free · Pro $19.99 once
How it works
One key, twice
Press
Tap right ⌘, or another hotkey you set. Spunly starts listening straight away, with no window to open first.
Speak
Talk the way you would to a person. Pauses are fine. Prefer holding the key while you talk? Switch to hold-to-talk.
Press again
The text appears where your cursor is. Turn on auto-Enter and a chat message sends itself.
Works in any app that accepts typing: Mail, Slack, Telegram, Notes, Google Docs in the browser, Xcode, VS Code, the terminal.
Where your voice goes
Nowhere. It stays on the Mac.
Spunly uses NVIDIA’s Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 speech model, running on the Apple Neural Engine through FluidAudio and Core ML. The model lives on your disk, so recognition needs no server and no internet.
Stays on your Mac
- Your audio. It is transcribed and discarded, never sent.
- Your transcripts, history and corrections dictionary.
- Usage stats: they are counted locally, for you.
Goes over the network, and when
- The speech model, about 630 MB
- Downloaded once, on first launch
- Text only, if you turn on AI cleanup
- Sent to the provider you chose, with your own key. Off by default
- Update check, version from this site
- Once a day, a small file from spunly.app. Nothing about you
There is no account to create, and the app sends us nothing about you or what you dictate.
Features
What’s in the app today
Spunly lives in the menu bar. These are its settings, as they exist in the current build.
Dictating
- Toggle or hold-to-talk
- Press once to start and once to stop, or hold the key while you speak.
- Your hotkey
- Right ⌘ by default, plus an alternative hotkey if you need one.
- Microphone choice
- Use the built-in mic, a headset or a USB microphone.
- Quiet while recording
- Optionally mutes system audio so music or a video doesn’t get into the recording.
After you speak
- Auto-Enter
- Presses Return after inserting the text. Handy in chats and terminals.
- Corrections dictionary
- Replace words automatically: names, product terms, the word the model always spells its own way.
- AI cleanup, with your own key
- Tidies punctuation and grammar through any OpenAI-compatible provider you choose. Off by default; only text is sent.
History and files
- Quick history
- Your last 100 transcripts in a panel. Click one to copy it again.
- Usage stats
- How much you dictated, counted on the Mac and shown only to you.
Languages
25 European languages, detected automatically
You don’t pick a language before speaking. The model recognises it on its own, so you can write to a colleague in English and to your family in Romanian or Russian with the same key.
English, Russian, Romanian, Ukrainian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese.
Language list from the Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 model card by NVIDIA.
Time back
How much typing dictation saves you
Move the slider to roughly how much you type on a workday: emails, messages, notes, prompts.
70 hours a year
Estimate: typing about 40 words a minute, speaking about 150, 230 workdays a year. Nothing you enter leaves this page.
Price
Pay once, keep it
Sold on this site through Paddle, with a license key by email. The Mac App Store version is coming at the same price.
Spunly
Free
download
- Full recognition quality
- 2,000 words a week
- Every language, every app
Spunly Pro
$19.99
one-time purchase
- No weekly limit
- One license key for all your own Macs
- Updates included
- No subscription to forget to cancel
Requirements
- Mac
- Apple Silicon: M1 or newer
- System
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Disk
- About 2 GB free
- Internet
- Only once, to download the model
Price in US dollars. VAT or sales tax, where it applies, is added at checkout. Full refund within 14 days.
Questions
Where do I get Spunly?
Download it from this site: the Download for Mac button at the top of the page gives you a free build, signed by KERNEXIT S.R.L. and notarized by Apple. A Mac App Store version is coming later, as an alternative.
Does Spunly send my voice to a server?
No. Speech recognition runs on your Mac’s Neural Engine with a model stored on your disk. The audio is transcribed locally and never uploaded. The only network use is the one-time model download and, if you enable it, AI cleanup, which sends text (not audio) to a provider you pick.
Does it work offline?
Yes. After the speech model (about 630 MB) has been downloaded once, dictation works without an internet connection, on a plane or behind a strict corporate firewall.
Which languages does Spunly understand?
25 European languages, including English, Russian, Romanian, Ukrainian, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Polish. The model detects the language by itself, so there is nothing to switch.
Which apps can I dictate into?
Any app with a text field that has focus: Mail, Messages, Slack, Telegram, Notes, Word, Google Docs in the browser, code editors and the terminal. Spunly types the text where your cursor is.
Which Macs are supported?
Macs with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. You need about 2 GB of free space. Intel Macs are not supported, because the model runs on the Apple Neural Engine.
How much does it cost?
Spunly is free to download, with 2,000 words a week. Spunly Pro removes the limit for a one-time $19.99, with no subscription. On this site it is sold through Paddle and comes as a license key by email, with a full refund within 14 days. The Mac App Store version is coming at the same price.
What is AI cleanup, and do I need it?
An optional step that fixes punctuation and grammar after recognition. It is off by default. If you turn it on, you add your own API key for an OpenAI-compatible service, and only the recognised text is sent there. Spunly works fully without it.
What’s the difference between the version from this site and the Mac App Store version?
The free tier and the price of Pro are the same. The version from this site lets you use the right ⌘ key as the hotkey (the Mac App Store version uses ⌥ Space), runs without the App Store sandbox and updates itself from inside the app. A key bought on this site unlocks the site version; an App Store purchase unlocks the App Store version.
Who makes Spunly?
KERNEXIT S.R.L., a software company in Chișinău, Moldova, and a resident of Moldova IT Park. Speech recognition runs on NVIDIA’s open Parakeet model (CC BY 4.0).
Try it on your Mac
Free to download, 2,000 words a week. Pro when you need more.
Download for MacFree · 19 MB · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon