Yena — on-device dictation for macOS

Speak.
It's written.

Hold Fn, say the thing, release. Your words appear in any app — transcribed by an open model that never leaves your Mac.

FREE · OPEN SOURCE · MACOS 14+ · APPLE SILICON

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01 Prologue
The page you arrived on was raw speech — crooked, misspelled, almost right. You scrolled, and it composed itself. That is the entire product. You talk the way people talk. Yena writes the way you wish you typed.

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02 How it works

Three steps.
One of them is talking.

/ 01

Hold Fn

Anywhere on your Mac — mail, docs, code, iMessage. No window to open, nothing to switch to.

/ 02

Say the thing

Talk like a person. An open-source speech model transcribes in real time, on your chip.

/ 03

Release

Your words are already there — punctuated, capitalized, roughly three times faster than typing.

03 Features

A small app, made with an unreasonable amount of care.

F.01

On-device, always

The model downloads once and lives on your Mac. Airplane mode? Still works. Audio uploaded? Never.

F.02

Works in every app

If you can type in it, you can talk in it. System-wide — no plugins, no per-app setup.

F.03

Faster than typing

You speak about three times faster than you type. Yena keeps up in real time on Apple Silicon.

F.04

Open models

Built on open-source speech models. Choose the size that fits your machine and your patience.

F.05

Free, forever

No subscription, no trial, no "pro" tier waiting around the corner. We made this for fun.

F.06

Open source

Don't trust us — read us. Every line that touches your microphone is public on GitHub.

04 Privacy

Your voice is yours. There is no server, no account, no analytics pixel listening to your grocery list.

Transcription happens in a process on your machine, and the audio is discarded the instant it becomes text. We couldn't listen even if we wanted to.

05 Download

Your keyboard called.
It wants a break.

FREE · MACOS 14+ · APPLE SILICON · ~200 MB WITH MODEL