Abalone

Speak 4× faster
than you type.

Hold a key. Speak. Your words land at the cursor.

Download for Mac

macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon

Private Offline Free

Three steps. No setup after install.

01
Hold fn

One key. Anywhere on your Mac — email, Slack, Figma, your terminal.

02
Speak

Whisper-grade transcription runs on your Mac. No cloud round-trip, no waiting.

03
Release

Your words land at the cursor — punctuated, capitalized, instant.

Built for the apps you live in.

Prompt AI agents faster.

Drive Claude Code, Cursor, or ChatGPT all day. Talk your prompts — they land in the chat already punctuated, at the speed of thought instead of the speed of typing.

Fly through chat.

Slack, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord. Hold a key, talk, release. Your reply is already there — ready to send.

Dump ideas, fast.

Notes, Obsidian, Bear, a scratchpad in your IDE. Anywhere your cursor blinks, your thoughts land as text the moment you think them.

Speak drafts, send polished. Coming soon

Ramble through an email or a long Slack reply. Abalone tightens it into something structured, clear, and ready to send — without losing your voice.

Built quiet. Runs local. Free forever.

Runs on your Mac, not the cloud.

Your voice never leaves your device. WhisperKit does all the work on Apple Silicon.

Free, forever.

No subscription. No trial. No sign-in needed to dictate.

A dot, not a dashboard.

A small pill waits at the bottom of your screen. Silent until you speak. Out of your way when you don't.

Fast enough to think in.

Sub-second transcription on M-series. Keep the flow — no interruption between thought and text.

Try it. Hold a key. Speak.

Download for Mac
Private Offline Free
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