# Spunly > Spunly is a dictation app for macOS by KERNEXIT S.R.L. (Chișinău, Moldova). Press a hotkey (right ⌘ by default), speak, press again, and the text is typed into whatever app has focus. Speech recognition runs entirely on the Mac: NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 on the Apple Neural Engine via FluidAudio (Core ML). Audio never leaves the computer; it works offline after a one-time model download of about 460 MB. No account, no analytics, no telemetry. Status: not released yet; coming to the Mac App Store. Planned pricing: free download with 2,000 words per week; Spunly Pro as a one-time purchase of $19.99, no subscription, Family Sharing. Final price is the one shown in the Mac App Store. Requirements: Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer), macOS 14 Sonoma or later, about 2 GB free space. Languages (25, detected automatically): 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. ## Pages - [Home (English)](https://spunly.app/) - [Главная (русский)](https://spunly.app/ru/) - [Pagina principală (română)](https://spunly.app/ro/) - [Privacy policy](https://spunly.app/privacy/) - [Terms of use](https://spunly.app/terms/) - [Credits and licenses](https://spunly.app/credits/) ## Features - 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. - Auto-Enter: Presses Return after inserting the text. Handy in chats and terminals. - Corrections dictionary (Pro): Replace words automatically: names, product terms, the word the model always spells its own way. - AI cleanup, with your own key (Pro): Tidies punctuation and grammar through any OpenAI-compatible provider you choose. Off by default; only text is sent. - Quick history: Your last 100 transcripts in a panel. Click one to copy it again. - Audio files to text (Pro): Drop in a recording and get a .txt file back, transcribed on the Mac. - Usage stats: How much you dictated, counted on the Mac and shown only to you. ## What leaves the Mac - The speech model, downloaded once on first launch. - Only if the user enables AI cleanup (off by default): recognised text, never audio, sent directly to the OpenAI-compatible provider the user configured with their own API key. - Nothing else. ## FAQ ### 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 460 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 will it cost? The plan is a free download with 2,000 words a week, and Spunly Pro as a one-time purchase of $19.99 with no subscription and Family Sharing. Pricing is final only once it appears in the Mac App Store. ### 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. ### When can I download it? Spunly is being prepared for the Mac App Store. Send us an email and we will write once when it is available. ### Who makes Spunly? KERNEXIT S.R.L., a software company in Chișinău, Moldova, and a resident of Moldova IT Park. Spunly builds on open-source work: SuperDictate and Parakey (MIT) and NVIDIA’s Parakeet model (CC BY 4.0). ## Open-source credits - [SuperDictate](https://github.com/shlgd/SuperDictate), MIT: The macOS dictation app Spunly is forked from. - [Parakey, by Richard Courtman](https://github.com/rcourtman/parakey), MIT: The original project SuperDictate grew from. - [NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3), CC BY 4.0: The speech recognition model. © NVIDIA. - [Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 Core ML, by FluidInference](https://huggingface.co/FluidInference/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3-coreml), CC BY 4.0: Conversion of the model to Core ML for the Apple Neural Engine. - [FluidAudio](https://github.com/FluidInference/FluidAudio), Apache 2.0: The Swift library that runs the model on the Neural Engine. - [Sparkle](https://sparkle-project.org), MIT: Signed in-app updates for the version downloaded from this website. ## Company KERNEXIT S.R.L., IDNO 1026023040248, MD-2008, mun. Chișinău, str. Ștefan Neaga 20, of. 4, Moldova. Resident of Moldova IT Park. Contact: spunly@kernex.md.