macOS · one-time · fully local

You said so.

Speak freely. It never leaves your machine.

Download free trial 14 days · no signup See pricing

macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · one-time purchase

See it in action

Speak — it shows you it's listening, then types.

A quiet pill by the notch tracks your voice while you talk. Release, and clean text lands wherever your cursor is.

Listening

The listening pill — live and on-screen while you speak, never in your way. Release, and clean text lands where your cursor is.

Saidso menu showing an active licence, model, and mode — **One click away** — model, mode, and license at a glance.

Saidso Settings on the Models section, with local Whisper models and on-device AI enhancement — **Everything local** — Whisper models and on-device AI, no keys.

Private by architecture

Everything runs on your machine — even the AI.

Transcription and AI enhancement both run locally: on-device Whisper and a local model. Turn Wi-Fi off and dictation still works. No API keys to paste, no account to create, no audio or text ever leaving your Mac. Privacy you can verify, not just trust.

0 API keys 0 accounts works Wi-Fi off on-device AI

Pricing

One-time purchase. No subscription.

Try free for 14 days — the trial starts on first launch, no email required. Buy a license when you're ready.

Solo

€19

1 Mac

Buy Solo

Personal

€29

2 Macs

Buy Personal

Extended

€39

3 Macs

Buy Extended

You'll receive your license key by email — paste it into Settings → License to activate. Licenses are one-time, per-Mac seats you can move between machines.

How Saidso compares

The only one that's both one-time and fully local.

Others are cheaper up front but rent-forever, or private only until the AI step reaches for the cloud.

	Saidso	VoiceInk	Wispr Flow	superwhisper
Price	€19–€39 once	$25–$49 once	$15/mo	$8.49/moor $249.99 once
Business model	One-time	One-time	Subscriptionfree tier	Subscriptionor lifetime
Transcription	On-device	On-device	Cloud only	On-device
AI enhancement	Local · no key	Cloud · your key	Cloud · built-in	Cloud · your key
Works Wi-Fi off	Fully	Transcribe only	No	Transcribe only
Needs an account	No	No	Yes	No

Comparison reflects our understanding at launch; these are capable apps and their feature sets may change.

Questions

FAQ & system requirements

What do I need to run it?

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later on an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer). The one-time model download aside, everything runs on your machine.

Does anything leave my Mac?

Your dictation never does — transcription and enhancement run locally. The only network access is the optional model download, checking for app updates, and activating or deactivating your license. See the privacy notice for exactly what's sent and to whom.

How does the trial work?

Download and launch — a 14-day trial starts automatically. No sign-up, no email, no credit card. Full features throughout the trial.

What happens when the trial ends?

Dictation keeps working to your clipboard; AI enhancement and auto-paste pause until you activate a license. Your settings are preserved.

What are the license terms?

One-time purchase. Each tier covers a number of Macs (1 / 2 / 3); you can deactivate a Mac to free a seat and move it to another.

Do I need to bring an API key?

No. Unlike cloud-enhanced tools, Saidso's AI enhancement runs on a local model — nothing to sign up for, nothing to paste.

Transparency

Privacy notice

Your audio and dictated text never leave your Mac. Saidso makes network connections only for the three purposes below — no dictation content is ever transmitted in any of them.

License activation and deactivation. When you activate or deactivate a license, Saidso sends your license key and a hashed device identifier to our licensing service (Cloudflare Workers) and to Lemon Squeezy, our payment and licensing provider, to verify and manage your seats. Cloudflare processes your IP address transiently for rate limiting and does not log it.
App update checks. Saidso checks GitHub for new releases so you can stay up to date. These requests expose your IP address and app/OS version to GitHub, who hosts our releases. Automatic checks ask your permission first.
Optional model download. If you choose to download a speech or enhancement model, that file is fetched over the network. This is optional and initiated by you.

Recipients: Lemon Squeezy (payments & licensing), Cloudflare (licensing infrastructure), and GitHub (release hosting & updates). Saidso is made in Sweden. Questions about your data? Email support@getsaidso.com.