You think faster than you type.

Omil is free dictation for your Mac. Hold a key, talk, and clean text lands wherever you were typing.

Download for Mac

How it works

  1. Hold Right Option.

    In any app, wherever your cursor is.

  2. Say it however it comes out.

    Pause, restart, change your mind halfway.

  3. Let go.

    Omil drops the filler and follows your correction.

  4. It’s typed where you were.

    No window to open, nothing to paste.

It writes what you meant.

Say it the way it comes out. Omil keeps the sentence you were reaching for, and its Changes view shows exactly what it did.

Last transcriptChanges

Original: Um, so I think we should, uh, ship it on Friday. No wait, Thursday.

Cleaned: I think we should ship it on Thursday.

Inserted into focused field
Clean
Drops the filler, follows your corrections and fixes grammar. The default.
Verbatim
Keeps every word, for quotes, names and code. Switch any time.

Make it sound like you.

Teach it your phrases and your names once. All of it stays on your Mac.

Snippets

Say a short phrase and the whole text is typed.

  • “sign off”

    types Thanks! Talk soon, Arpan

  • “my address”

    types 221B Baker Street, London NW1 6XE

  • “calendar”

    types cal.com/arpan/30min

Dictionary

Teach it the names and terms it mishears, once.

  • our pan

    becomes Arpan

  • cube and eighties

    becomes Kubernetes

  • post grass

    becomes PostgreSQL

History
Your last 200 dictations, searchable and replayable.
No waiting
Start the next recording while the last one is still cleaning up.
Your prompt
The cleanup instructions are plain text you can edit.

Your voice never leaves your Mac.

No account, no cloud, no subscription. Recognition and cleanup run on the machine in front of you, and the source is public.

On your Mac
  1. MicrophoneRecorded while you hold the key.
  2. Speech recognitionRuns on Apple silicon.
  3. CleanupRewritten on your Mac.
  4. Your text fieldTyped where you were.

The internet is used for the first setup and for updates. Nothing you say is sent anywhere.

Coming soon

On iPhone and iPad, too.

Pair once, then tap the mic on the Omil keyboard in any app. Your Mac does the transcribing, so it stays free and private.

The Omil keyboard on iPad, listening while writing an email in MailThe Omil keyboard on iPhone after inserting a dictated message in Messages

Questions

Something else? Ask on GitHub.

Yes. There is no account, no trial and no paid plan. Omil runs on your own Mac, so there is nothing to charge for.

An Apple silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later. On first launch Omil sets up its speech tools and downloads what it needs to run offline.

English, for now.

No. Recording, recognition and cleanup all happen on your Mac. An internet connection is only needed for the first setup and for updates.

Any app with a text field. Omil types into the field you were using, with your permission through Accessibility.

Yes. Switch between Clean and Verbatim at any time, add dictionary words and snippets, or edit the cleanup prompt itself.

It does the same job: hold a key, speak, and clean text is typed for you. The difference is that Omil runs on your Mac, needs no account and costs nothing.

Coming soon. The Omil keyboard sends your dictation to your Mac for transcription, so it stays free and private too.