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Push to talk.
Type in any app.

Hold Fn, talk, let go. Clean text lands where your cursor is, in any app on your Mac. Whisper and the cleanup AI both run on device. Free for 7 days, then $39 once. No subscription. No cloud. No account.

  • Hold a key, talk, let go. Text lands where your cursor is.
  • Nothing goes to any server. AI cleanup runs on your Mac.
  • Record meetings. Speaker labels, summary notes, all local.
  • Paste a YouTube or TikTok link. Transcript in seconds.
  • Drop any MP4, MOV, or MP3. Get text or SRT subtitles.
  • Pay $39 once. No subscription, no renewal, ever.
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Mac App Store: in review

Full features during the trial · keep everything when you buy

Mac with M1 chip or newer · macOS 14+ · free updates included

Two ways to get it

Same core. Pick how far it reaches.

Both run fully on your Mac and bundle the local model. The direct version reaches into every app and pulls transcripts from links. Apple’s sandbox does not allow that, so the App Store version pastes from your clipboard.

Recommended

Direct, from this site

The full experience. Reaches every app.

  • Push to talk into any app, text types itself in
  • Paste a YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok link for a transcript
  • Bring your own Ollama LLM model
  • Updates install themselves

App Store

If you prefer Apple’s store and its sandbox.

  • Same on-device dictation, transcription, and cleanup
  • You dictate in the Parlin window, then paste with Cmd+V
  • No link transcription, no custom models
  • Apple billing, updates through the App Store

What it replaces

Five apps in one. Paid once.

Parlin does the job of a dictation app, a meeting notetaker, a file transcriber, a subtitle generator, and a content repurposing tool. Here is what you pay if you buy those separately.

App / servicePer year

Wispr Flow

AI dictation · $12/mo

$144

Superwhisper Pro

Local dictation · $8.49/mo

$102

Otter.ai Pro

Meeting notes · $8.33/mo billed annually

$100

MacWhisper

File transcription · EUR 59 one-time, listed for comparison

$60

Total per year

$406

Parlin

Dictation + meetings + files + links + subtitles. All of it. Once.

$39

one time

You save $367 in the first year alone. Every year after that, you save the full $406.

Prices above are from each vendor's public pricing page, June 2026. Subscription prices change. Verify on each vendor's site before buying. MacWhisper is listed for category coverage; it is file-transcription only, not a real-time dictation app.

What's inside · teardown

The whole stack, layer by layer.

Hold Fn, talk, and clean text lands in any app. Scroll to pull Parlin apart and meet the three layers that pull it off, all on your Mac.

On your Mac · no cloud · no tracking

Your words never leave your Mac.

Cloud dictation apps stream your voice to a server they own. Parlin runs speech and cleanup on your Mac, so there's no audio to send anywhere.

The cloud round-trip

Other dictation apps

  1. You talk into your mic
  2. Your audio gets uploaded to their server
  3. Their model runs it in their data center
  4. Their staff can read it. It sits on their disk.
Never leaves your Mac

Parlin

  1. You talk into your mic
  2. Whisper turns it into text on your Mac
  3. Cleanup AI runs on your Mac too
  4. Audio and text stay on your disk. No upload, ever.

No cloud calls. No analytics. No telemetry. Turn off Wi-Fi or switch to airplane mode and it still works. That's not a promise, it's how it's built. In 2025, a meeting-AI tool called Cluely had a breach that exposed 83,000 users' interview transcripts. Parlin has no server to breach: your audio never leaves the Mac.

See it in motion

Voice in. Clean text out.

Four phases, start to finish. Hold Fn, talk, watch the words land, then watch the cleanup tidy them. The whole loop runs on your Mac.

Recording
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Step 01 / 04

You talk.

Hold Fn and speak. The audio stays on your Mac.

Works everywhere

One shortcut. Every app you type into.

Parlin is not a writing app you switch into. Hold Fn wherever your cursor already is and the cleaned text lands right there. Mail, your editor, the URL bar, a Slack reply, a Notion page. If you can type in it, you can talk into it.

MailOutlookGmailSlackMicrosoft TeamsDiscordMessagesiMessageWhatsAppTelegramMailOutlookGmailSlackMicrosoft TeamsDiscordMessagesiMessageWhatsAppTelegram
WordPagesGoogle DocsNotionBearObsidianNotesDraftsCraftUlyssesWordPagesGoogle DocsNotionBearObsidianNotesDraftsCraftUlysses
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What it looks like in practice

  • Pasted into Mail
    You said

    “send the proposal to legal by friday”

    Typed for you

    Send the proposal to Legal by Friday.

  • Pasted into Slack
    You said

    “merged the auth fix can you review”

    Typed for you

    Merged the auth fix. Can you review?

  • Pasted into Notion
    You said

    “spec update we're moving the onboarding step to after signup”

    Typed for you

    Spec update: we're moving the onboarding step to after signup.

  • Pasted into Calendar
    You said

    “lunch with mom tuesday at noon”

    Typed for you

    Lunch with mom, Tuesday at noon.

App names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. Parlin is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

The cleanup philosophy

Your voice. Just better written.

Most AI tools rewrite your message in their voice. Parlin fixes what’s broken (grammar, capitals, punctuation) and leaves the rest alone. You said it. It just reads better.

Voice → text

What you said
Polite email

hey could you send me the report once you're done i also need the spreadsheet from priya by friday thanks

What gets typed
Polite email

Hey, could you send me the report once you're done? I also need the spreadsheet from Priya by Friday. Thanks!

Same words, same intent. Punctuation added, capitalization fixed, no rewriting.

More things it cleans

  • Grammar
    You said

    the report and the spreadsheet is ready

    Parlin typed

    The report and the spreadsheet are ready.

  • Code
    You said

    chmod six four four dot env

    Parlin typed

    chmod 644 .env

  • Names and time
    You said

    schedule a call with priya tuesday at three

    Parlin typed

    Schedule a call with Priya Tuesday at 3.

Zero setup

The cleanup model ships inside the app.

Parlin bundles a small local model (Qwen3 1.7B on Apple’s MLX framework, about 1 GB of RAM). No Ollama to install, no account, no key to paste. Open the app and it works. Want a bigger local model? The Direct build can point at your own Ollama setup from Settings.

No account. No subscription. No data leaves your Mac.

More than dictation

It runs your meetings, files, and links.

Dictation is the start. Record a meeting, transcribe any file, or grab any video or audio link to remix and repurpose. It all stays yours, on your Mac. Google’s free app does none of this.

Meetings

Record a call, get speaker-labeled notes and a summary. A local AI coach watches the conversation and suggests sharp questions to ask in real time, refreshing as the topic shifts. All local, nothing uploaded.

Files

Drop an audio or video file, even an hour long. Get the full transcript plus optional SRT or VTT subtitle files. Supports MP4, MOV, M4A, MP3, WAV, and FLAC.

Repurpose

Paste a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or Facebook video URL. Get the transcript in seconds, then remix it into a thread, a post, or a script. It is yours, nothing uploaded. Direct build only.

Live transcription

Watch the words land as you speak. Dictation modes: Exact (raw transcript), Clean (grammar fix), Polished (full cleanup), or Summary. A live correction flash shows edits as they happen.

It is light.Parlin runs well on a Mac with an M1 chip and 8 GB of memory, the entry-level model most people own, and feels faster on newer ones. Google’s Mac app uses a much bigger model (up to 12B) that wants a 16 GB Mac.

Multilingual · 56 languages

Talk in your language. Get text in any language.

Transcription runs on your Mac in all 56 languages. Speak one language and paste another with on-device translation. The bundled cleanup LLM tidies Latin-script languages out of the box.

EnglishEnglish
EspañolSpanish
FrançaisFrench
DeutschGerman
ItalianoItalian
PortuguêsPortuguese
NederlandsDutch
PolskiPolish
TürkçeTurkish
Tiếng ViệtVietnamese
Bahasa IndonesiaIndonesian
中文Chinese
日本語Japanese
한국어Korean
हिन्दीHindi
العربيةArabic
فارسیPersian
עבריתHebrew
РусскийRussian
УкраїнськаUkrainian

And 36 more, all in Settings

  • Afrikaans
  • Albanian
  • Armenian
  • Azerbaijani
  • Bengali
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • Georgian
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Icelandic
  • Kannada
  • Kazakh
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Malay
  • Malayalam
  • Marathi
  • Norwegian
  • Romanian
  • Serbian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Swahili
  • Swedish
  • Tagalog
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Urdu
  • Welsh

Pick the language per recording in Settings, or let auto-detect handle it.

How Parlin compares

Local and paid once. Nothing else does both.

Cloud apps (Wispr Flow) send your voice to a server. Local apps (Superwhisper) run on device but charge a subscription and require you to bring your own API key for AI cleanup. Parlin ships the model, runs everything on your Mac, and you pay once.

Transcription runs

OursParlin
On your Mac
Superwhisper
On your Mac
Wispr Flow
Their servers
Eloquent
On your Mac

AI cleanup runs

OursParlin
On your Mac (bundled, no setup)
Superwhisper
Your API key required
Wispr Flow
Their servers
Eloquent
On your Mac (cloud optional)

Model bundled, no download

OursParlin
Yes
Superwhisper
Download required
Wispr Flow
No (cloud only)
Eloquent
Download required

Record meetings, get speaker notes

OursParlin
Yes
Superwhisper
No
Wispr Flow
No
Eloquent
No

Translate as you talk

OursParlin
Yes
Superwhisper
No
Wispr Flow
No
Eloquent
No

Paste a link, get the transcript

OursParlin
Yes (YouTube, IG, TikTok)
Superwhisper
No
Wispr Flow
No
Eloquent
No

File transcription (MP4, MP3, etc.)

OursParlin
Yes
Superwhisper
Yes
Wispr Flow
No
Eloquent
No

Global hotkey into any app

OursParlin
Yes (Direct build)
Superwhisper
Yes
Wispr Flow
Yes
Eloquent
No

Works offline, no internet

OursParlin
Yes, always
Superwhisper
Yes
Wispr Flow
No
Eloquent
Yes

Pricing model

OursParlin
One-time, $39
Superwhisper
Subscription
Wispr Flow
Subscription
Eloquent
Free

Features and pricing change. Always verify on each vendor's site. Superwhisper cleanup via API key: requires OpenAI, Anthropic, or Groq account with usage-based billing on top of the subscription.

Pricing

Buy it once. Keep it forever.

Try everything free for 7 days, no card, no account. Then one price, both channels: $39, paid once. No subscription, no renewal. Every feature included, every update free.

Works on a Mac with an M1 chip or newer · macOS 14 or newer

On an Intel Mac or Windows? Email support@devxgroup.io. We track demand by hand and we'll let you know if we ship it.

  • ONE-TIME

    App Store

    Apple bills you. Sandboxed and private, with Apple's stricter rules.

    $39lifetime
    • Bundled local LLM cleanup (the AI runs on your Mac)
    • Local Whisper transcription (on your Mac)
    • Language picker
    • Transcript export (TXT, SRT, VTT)
    • In-window hold-to-talk shortcut
    • Menu bar item
    • Start Dictation App Intent for Shortcuts.app

    The App Store version, with Apple's stricter rules. Apple bills you and handles updates. Good if you prefer buying through the App Store.

    Buy on App Store
  • Full power

    ONE-TIME · FULL POWER

    Direct

    Full-power version. Global shortcuts, URL ingestion, auto-paste.

    $39lifetime
    • Everything in the App Store version
    • Global hold-to-talk from any app
    • Auto-paste into focused field after dictation
    • Streaming dictation (types as the LLM writes)
    • Transcribe a YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok link
    • ffmpeg conversion for any audio or video format
    • Advanced: bring your own Ollama LLM model
    • Updates install themselves (one click)
    • Use on up to 3 of your own Macs
    • All sales final (statutory rights preserved)

    The full-power version. It can type into any app on your Mac.

    Buy direct

Compare every feature

What you get at each SKU.

Both versions include the local LLM and run everything on your Mac. The direct version adds features Apple's sandbox does not allow. Same price either way.

Feature
App Store
Direct
Both SKUs.
Bundled local LLM cleanup (the AI)
Local Whisper transcription
Meeting recording + speaker notes
File transcription (audio and video)
Live transcription view
Translate to another language
Language picker (56 languages)
Transcript export (TXT, SRT, VTT)
In-window hold-to-talk shortcut
Menu bar item
Start Dictation App Intent (Shortcuts.app)
Window menu reopen
Direct only.
Global hold-to-talk from any app
Auto-paste into focused field after dictation
Streaming dictation (types as LLM produces)
YouTube, Instagram, TikTok URL ingestion
ffmpeg conversion
Advanced: use your own local Ollama model
Updates install themselvesVia App StoreIn-app, one click
License works onAll your Macs (same Apple ID)3 Macs
Refund windowApple's policyAll sales final

Why these prices

We’re honest about what costs us money and what doesn’t.

  • 01

    Why $39 on both

    Same price, both channels. One purchase, updates included. No subscription, no hidden tier.

  • 02

    Why no subscription

    Cloud dictation apps run $8 to $18 a month. Parlin is $39 once. Pay it and it is yours, on your Mac, with no renewal.

  • 03

    Why two SKUs

    The App Store version runs in Apple's sandbox (their stricter rules). The direct version uses macOS Accessibility and Input Monitoring to reach into any app on your Mac. Same price, different reach.