Free Mac app
Talk.
It types.
Push-to-talk dictation for your whole Mac. Hold a key, speak, and the words land wherever your cursor already is — Mail, Slack, your CRM, any text box.
- 2.3×faster than you type
measured, not modelled - 34languages on-device
no internet needed - $0forever, no account
built for our own clients
You say
Press it
Hold ⇧
Your languages stay yours. Tidying is a key you hold — never a decision it makes for you.
Typing isn't just slow.
It changes what you say.
Nobody books time to "do typing." It leaks out of the day in ninety-second pieces, and you only ever notice the ones that hurt.
The reply you keep putting off
The one needing four real paragraphs. You'd say it out loud in ninety seconds. It sits in your inbox for two days instead, because typing it is a job.
Notes that never get written
You end the call knowing exactly what matters. Writing it up takes longer than the call did — so you don't, and by Thursday the detail is gone.
Losing the thought mid-sentence
You had the whole sentence. Then you went hunting for the keys, and by the end of it the better half of it was gone.
And the one that costs you real money
You send "ok sounds good" to a client who deserved three warm sentences — not because you don't care, but because your hands are the bottleneck. Typing quietly makes you worse at your own job, every day, and no time-tracker ever shows you that line.
Why it sticks.
Faster than typing
468 characters a minute speaking, against 200 typed. Measured on our own use, not borrowed from a brochure.
App with a cursor
Mail, Slack, your CRM, a box on a website. If a cursor blinks there, it types there.
And no account
34 languages run offline on your Mac. Add a Google key for the rest — the audio goes straight there, never through us.
You type slower than you talk.
Thursday works for the site visit — I'll bring the revised quote.
Or take ten seconds and measure your own speed.
Speaking measured at 468 characters a minute on our own use, over twenty-two working days. Type the line above and the sum uses your speed instead of ours.
Two things people ask.
"Why is it free? What's the catch?"
There isn't one, because we didn't build it to sell. OxOne builds back-office systems for Calgary businesses — bookings, invoicing, memberships, the admin that actually runs an operation. We made this for ourselves and for the people we already work with, and handing it to you costs us nothing. There's no account, so there's nothing for us to collect — no email, no usage, not a word of your audio. If it saves you an hour a week, that's a fair sample of how we think about the rest of your day.
"My Mac already does dictation. Why this?"
It does, it's free, and if it's working for you then keep it. We built this because of two things it wouldn't do for us: hold up when two languages land in one sentence, and sit on a key you can hold mid-thought without leaving the window you're already in. One key, any app, no mode to enter and exit. Install both and keep whichever one your hand actually reaches for — this one costs nothing to find out.
Stop typing what you
could have said.
Two minutes to install. Nothing to sign up for.
We build software that gives owners their week back.
That is the whole job at OxOne — systems for small Calgary businesses that cut the hours nobody should be spending. Dictate is the smallest one we make, which is why it is free.