Local-first
Audio and transcripts never leave your Mac.
Live todayVoice dictation for the Mac
Speak anywhere. Write instantly.
Press a shortcut, talk naturally, and clean text lands in whatever app you're in. Transcription and cleanup run on your Mac. Nothing leaves it.
macOS 13+, Apple Silicon · no credit card
- 0 bytes of audio leave the Mac
- Works offline after install
Slack – message to #sales
Spoken (12 sec)
um so the acme demo went well they want a proposal by friday uh send that to the whole group
Penwright · on-device in <1s
Inserted
The Acme demo went great. They want a proposal by Friday. @channel, details in the thread.
Transcription + cleanup ran on the user's Mac. None of it left the device.
Same sentence. Cleaner output.
Penwright doesn't just transcribe, it edits the way you'd edit: fillers go, structure shows up, tone stays yours.
Voice transforms
Edit any text by talking to it.
Select text in any app, press ⌘⌥T, and say what should happen: “translate this to German”, “make it formal”, “turn this into a short reply”. The result appears in a card. Replace or copy with one key. Penwright reads the surrounding field too, so “draft a reply” actually knows the thread it’s replying to. All of it on your Mac, like everything else.
Translate
Input
The meeting is moved to Thursday at 3 pm.
⌘⌥T · translate this to German
Output
Das Meeting wird auf Donnerstag um 15 Uhr verschoben.
Rewrite
Input
need the invoice before friday or accounting escalates
⌘⌥T · make it a short friendly email
Output
Hi, could you please send the invoice before Friday? Otherwise I'll need to escalate internally. Thanks!
Fix
Input
their going to except the offer
⌘⌥T · fix the grammar
Output
They're going to accept the offer.
Works in mail, docs, chat, code editors. Anywhere you can select text.
Inside the app
Dictation is where it starts, not where it stops.
The same voice that writes your text also captures your meetings, finds what you said months later, books your hours and holds your keys. All of it local, on the same Mac.
Meetings
Leave the meeting with the minutes already written
Record the room or the call and get the decisions, the commitments and who owes what. The audio is transcribed and summarised on your Mac, so a client conversation never becomes an upload.
- Records both sides of a call, with each speaker labelled
- Decisions and action items, not forty minutes of transcript
- Tells you to get consent before it starts recording
Recall
Ask what you said, weeks later
Everything you dictate is indexed locally, so you can question it weeks later. What did I tell them about the deadline? What did I say on Tuesday? The index and the model both sit on your machine.
- Answers come from your own dictation, not from the web
- Search by meaning, not by remembering the exact phrase
- Asking a question does not send your history anywhere
Billable work
Say the hours out loud and they land on the right client
"Log two hours for Acme, API work." The entry lands on the right project with the note that explains it, which turns the end of the month into a report instead of an archaeology exercise.
- No timer to forget to start
- Hours arrive with the note that explains them
- A local database you can export, not a vendor's row
Vault
Keys and credentials that never sit in a shared doc
API keys, licence codes and the passwords you paste into terminals, encrypted on your Mac. Sending one to a teammate is encrypted for their key before it leaves, so the relay in the middle only ever holds ciphertext.
- Encrypted at rest, unlocked on your machine
- End-to-end encrypted sharing inside a team
- Ask for a key by voice and paste it where the cursor is
One app replaces seven.
Penwright bundles the tools your team reaches for every hour, dictation, capture, secrets, ideas, answers, time. All local. All on Mac. One subscription.
Dictation
Speak into any text field. 150 WPM, cleaned + punctuated.
Idea catcher
Capture ideas mid-flow. On-device AI structures them into next steps.
Ask
Ask questions across everything you've dictated. Answered on-device.
Vault
Passwords + API keys encrypted by the Secure Enclave.
Screenshots
Capture, annotate, pin, share. No round-trip to a server.
Screen recording
Record region or whole desktop with audio. Saved locally.
Time tracking
Say “log 2 hours for Acme”, timers and timesheets by voice.
One click. The right model for your Mac.
Penwright installs one engine, sized to run on any Apple Silicon Mac. No model menus, no settings to study. On Macs with 32 GB of memory or more, the app automatically fetches a much larger model in the background and switches over the moment it's verified. Next release
Model weights come down once. Your audio and text never go up.
Your edge, in one table.
How the categories stack up: cloud dictation tools, local single-purpose apps, and what ships with macOS.
| Capability | Penwright | Cloud dictation apps | Local dictation apps | Built-in macOS dictation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio is processed… | On your Mac | On someone else's servers | On your Mac | On your Mac* |
| AI cleanup (fillers, self-corrections) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| Beyond dictation: screenshots, recordings, notes, vault | ✓ | – | – | – |
| Custom vocabulary & snippets | ✓ | ✓ | Partial | – |
| Team plan with central billing | ✓ | Partial | – | – |
| Optional BYO cloud model (your key) | ✓ | – | Partial | – |
| Price | €9/mo · Team €15/seat | From ~$12/mo | Subscription or one-time | Free |
*macOS processes dictation on-device depending on settings. Category-level comparison as of June 2026. Verify individual vendors' current features and pricing directly. See detailed comparisons
Penwright for teams
The security review is one sentence long.
"Audio and text are processed on the employee's Mac and never transmitted." That's the architecture, and it's verifiable. Team seats add central billing and one invoice.
What is typing costing your team?
Run the numbers for one person, then multiply by your headcount in your head.
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Emails, docs, prompts, chats. All of it counts.
€/h
If you don't bill hourly, use a fair estimate.
Monthly savings
€2,357
Around 31 hours of writing per month
Yearly savings
€28,286
Penwright Pro is €9.00/month
Privacy you can verify, security in progress.
We're transparent about what we ship today and what we're working on. No imaginary certifications.
GDPR-aware
Personal content stays on the Mac by default. There is no audio to process serverside. Subject-access requests honored.
Live todaySOC 2 Type II
Controls under review. Available on request once audited.
In progressISO 27001
On the roadmap. Targeting completion within the next 12 months.
In progressOn the roadmap
Cross-language dictation. Speak German, insert polished English. Or the other way round.
Whole-thread replies. Select an email thread, say what your answer should say, get the draft.