Native macOS dictation. Press a hotkey, speak, and text appears at your cursor. Entirely on-device. No cloud. No accounts. No telemetry.
Download Jot Apple Silicon · macOS 14+ · Free & open sourceA global shortcut starts recording from any app. Push-to-talk is available too.
No length limits. A floating indicator shows you're recording, then transcribing.
The transcript is pasted directly into whatever app you're using. That's it.
No audio leaves the device. No cloud processing. Jot runs Parakeet on the Apple Neural Engine for fast, private transcription.
Audio is transcribed locally using the Neural Engine. Nothing crosses the network. Run Little Snitch — you'll see silence.
The global hotkey works in any application. Toggle recording or hold to push-to-talk. Cancel anytime with Escape.
Select text, speak an instruction, and an LLM rewrites it in place. Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini.
Every transcription is saved with its audio. Search your history, replay recordings, rename entries, or re-transcribe with a different model.
Your Mac already has the hardware to transcribe speech. Jot simply puts it to use. No subscription, no usage limits, no catch. Open source under the MIT license.
Install in under a minute. The setup wizard walks you through permissions, model download, and a test dictation.
Download for Mac Requires Apple Silicon and macOS Sonoma 14.0 or later.