Dictate anywhere on your Mac
NanoVoice is built for the text field you are already using: Mail, Slack, Notes, Linear, Cursor, Safari, or any native Mac app. Press the shortcut, speak, and paste without changing context.
A keyboard-first dictation app for your Mac menu bar.
Press ⌃⌘W, speak, Return — transcribed text pastes at your cursor. Toggle the same shortcut again to finish.
Free. Lifetime is $4.99 one-time. Purchase a license
Press ⌃⌘W to dictate · ⌃⌘R for history
Floating capsule at your text cursor
Ship the landing page and…
Reply to Victor about the…
Hi team — quick update on…
Mac dictation app
NanoVoice is for people who want dictation to feel like a native Mac utility, not a separate writing workspace. It stays in the menu bar, responds to keyboard shortcuts, and puts the final text at your cursor.
NanoVoice is built for the text field you are already using: Mail, Slack, Notes, Linear, Cursor, Safari, or any native Mac app. Press the shortcut, speak, and paste without changing context.
Free users get clean speech-to-text with Apple Speech. Lifetime templates can reshape the transcript into an email, a short message, structured notes, or your own custom format.
Every dictation is saved locally so you can reopen, copy, paste, or review previous recordings from a keyboard-driven floating panel inspired by NanoClip.
Recordings live on your Mac. NanoVoice does not host speech-to-text, proxy your audio, or require an account. Whisper and Ollama can run locally; cloud enhancement uses your own API keys.
Features
A floating capsule appears near your text cursor with live mic levels. Lifetime adds a template chevron in the capsule. Press Return or the dictation shortcut again to commit; Esc cancels.
Browse past dictations in a NanoClip-style floating panel. Arrow keys move selection; Return pastes; ⌘C copies; Delete removes; Esc closes. ⌘1–9 jump to a row and paste.
Every tier starts with transcription: Apple's on-device Speech on free, plus optional WhisperKit local Whisper on Lifetime for higher quality (model downloads on first use).
Free
Apple Speech
Lifetime
+ Whisper (local)
After transcription, Lifetime templates post-process through Ollama on your Mac or your own cloud API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) in Keychain. We never proxy inference.
Templates are a Lifetime feature. They take your transcript and reshape it — a polished email, a casual message, or structured notes with summaries and action items. Free users get speech-to-text only: words in, words out, no template transformation.
## Summary
Ship the landing page, fix pricing copy, and prep the DMG.
## Action items
- [ ] Finalize /voice page
- [ ] Tag v1.0 build
## Transcript
Okay so today we need to…
Hi team,
Quick update on launch: we’re shipping direct download only — no Mac App Store for v1.
I’ll deploy the site today; please review the pricing copy before then.
Thanks,
Victor
Speech-to-text only. Your words paste as transcribed — no summary, no structure, no template picker.
Templates reshape the transcript after speech-to-text — powered by Ollama locally or cloud BYOK on Lifetime.
Defaults use Command+Control (not Option) because ⌘⌥-letter combos are often swallowed by macOS text input. Record new shortcuts in Settings → Shortcuts with the same recorder NanoClip uses.
Free stays on the Clean theme. Lifetime unlocks the full NanoKit set — Dracula, Tokyo Night, Catppuccin, Liquid Glass, and the rest — for the recordings panel and settings chrome.
Recordings live in SwiftData on your Mac. No accounts, no telemetry on what you say, and no proxied speech API. Cloud enhancement goes straight from your Mac to the provider you configure.
Requires macOS 26+. Direct download — not on the Mac App Store.
Pricing
No subscriptions.
On-device speech-to-text. No templates.
Apple Speech transcription
Plain paste (no templates)
Last 3 recordings
Clean theme only
Templates, Whisper, themes, Ollama, cloud BYOK
Speech-to-text
Apple Speech + WhisperKit (local)
Templates
Email, Message, Notes, custom
Template enhancement
Ollama + cloud BYOK
Unlimited history
Every recording, not just the last 3
All NanoKit themes
Full set of 19+ themes
Free is transcription only — not a limited template tier. Lifetime unlocks reshaping speech into polished emails, messages, and structured notes.
FAQ
Dictation toggles with ⌃⌘W (Control+Command+W). The recordings panel opens with ⌃⌘R (Control+Command+R). While recording, ↩ commits and pastes; esc cancels. NanoVoice deliberately avoids ⌘⌥-letter defaults because macOS often intercepts them — you can rebind both shortcuts in Settings → Shortcuts.
Press ⌃⌘W to start. A small capsule appears near your text cursor with mic levels (and a template picker on Lifetime). Speak, then press Return or ⌃⌘W again to finish. NanoVoice transcribes, pastes at your cursor, and saves the recording to history. With Lifetime templates enabled, it also reshapes the transcript before pasting.
No. Free is speech-to-text only — Apple Speech transcribes what you said and pastes it. Templates (Email, Message, Notes, and custom presets) are Lifetime features that reshape the transcript into structured markdown. The free "Transcript" template is a lightly cleaned passthrough, not a reshaping template tier.
Free keeps your 3 most recent recordings open and pasteable. Older recordings aren't deleted — they stay visible in the panel but locked (blurred preview, lock icon) as a reminder of what Lifetime unlocks. Activating Lifetime reveals your entire history in place, including everything recorded while on the free tier.
Whisper is local speech-to-text through WhisperKit — higher quality than Apple Speech, runs entirely on your Mac, and downloads its model on first use. It is included with the Lifetime license; the free tier uses Apple Speech only.
Not for transcription. Free uses Apple Speech on device; Lifetime can add local Whisper. Template enhancement (Email, Message, Notes) may use Ollama on localhost or your own cloud API keys (BYOK) — we do not host speech-to-text or proxy your audio.
No. Lifetime is a one-time $4.99 purchase through Polar. No annual fees and no usage metering on our side.
Microphone (record), Speech Recognition (Apple on-device transcription), and Accessibility (paste at your text cursor and position the capsule). Global shortcuts use Carbon hotkeys like NanoClip — no Input Monitoring required.
No. It is a direct download (Developer ID signed). Buy and activate Lifetime from Settings → License after checkout.
macOS 26 or later.
Yes. NanoVoice is part of NanoApps alongside NanoClip (clipboard, snippets, flows) and NanoPad (menu bar notes). They share NanoKit for themes, hotkeys, and floating panels. NanoApps home →
Serious dictation.
Download NanoVoice for free. Press ⌃⌘W and get words where you are already typing.
Free. Lifetime is $4.99 one-time. Purchase a license