Write 3× faster
by talking.
Dictate in any app, transcribe audio and meetings, and read text back aloud — 100% on-device. No cloud, no account, no subscription.
Free 14-day trial, then $49 once to keep · 2 devices · No account
See how it works →
Hold a key, speak, release — text lands in any app.
Learn more about dictate→Works in every app
You think at 150 WPM.
You type at 40.
3.5x faster
Close the gap between thinking and writing.
TESTIMONIALS
What users are saying
“I've tried almost every dictation tool out there, but VoxBee is the first one that actually stuck. As someone who needs to move fast, it's become an essential part of my daily workflow. I'm using it for everything from quick iMessage replies to drafting long-form docs. It completely closes the gap between thinking and writing. The fact that it works 100% offline gives me total peace of mind regarding my data, and the speed of the on-device transcription is honestly unmatched. It's rare to find an app that's this powerful and stays completely out of your way!”
Avinash Parida
Director, Product Design at Meta
CUSTOMIZATION
Choose your model. Make it yours.
Pick from on-device Whisper and NVIDIA Parakeet models, or bring your own API key for cloud providers. Customize your workflow with 8 color themes, 8 waveform styles, flexible hotkeys, screenshot smart paste, and a personal dictionary.
7 Whisper Models
From Tiny (75MB, instant) to Large v3 (2.9GB, most accurate)
NVIDIA Parakeet Models
Fast English dictation and multilingual European transcription with on-device FastConformer models
11 Cloud Providers (BYO Key)
Prefer a hosted model? Bring your own API key for OpenAI, Deepgram, AssemblyAI, ElevenLabs, Groq, xAI Grok, Mistral Voxtral, Cohere, Speechmatics, Alibaba Qwen3-ASR, or Soniox. A purple cloud badge stays visible whenever audio leaves the device.
On-Device Auto-Format (Beta)
On macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence, an on-device Apple Foundation Models pass adds punctuation, capitalization, and list cues. Local-only, off by default.
Text-to-Speech & Audio Studio
Read notes, summaries, transcripts, and history aloud from a floating dock. Six engines — System (free, on-device), OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Deepgram Aura, Groq PlayAI, Cartesia. Paste text into Audio Studio to preview voices and export to MP3 or WAV.
Google Drive Sync
Mirror your VoxBee library — meetings, transcriptions, and notes — to a folder in your own Drive. Scoped to files VoxBee creates (drive.file). Drag the folder anywhere in Drive and sync keeps working.
Unified Provider Keys
Drop in your OpenAI key once and it powers Whisper STT, GPT summaries, and TTS — no triple entry. One Keychain entry per provider, shared across STT, LLM, and TTS.
8 Color Themes
Ocean, Sunset, Aurora, Lavender, Ember, Mint, Monochrome, Neon
8 Waveform Styles
Classic bars, glow orb, particles, liquid blob, and more
Configurable Hotkeys
Option, Fn, or Control — your choice
Screenshot Smart Paste
Capture your screen while dictating. Image auto-pastes into Slack, VS Code, browsers, and 20+ apps.
Personal Dictionary
Teach VoxBee your name, jargon, and domain terms. Phonetic matching catches even misheard words.
Your words never leave your device.
While others send your audio to the cloud, VoxBee processes everything locally on your Mac, Windows, or Linux machine.
On-device inference powered by WhisperKit and NVIDIA Parakeet — open source
COMPARE
Why go offline?
See how VoxBee compares to cloud-based alternatives.
| VoxBee | Otter.ai | Fireflies | Whisper CLI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works offline | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Data stays on device | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| System-wide dictation | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Personal dictionary | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Meeting recording | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI meeting summaries | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| File transcription | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| No account required | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $49 once* | $8/mo† | $10/mo† | Free |
| Desktop app | ✓ | Web only | Web only | ✓ |
| Mac, Windows & Linux | ✓ | Any (web) | Any (web) | ✓ |
* $49 one-time purchase — no subscription.
† Billed annually (lowest paid tier). Otter Pro: $8.33/mo annual, $16.99/mo monthly. Fireflies Pro: $10/mo annual, $18/mo monthly.
Pricing verified March 2026.
FOR DEVELOPERS
Give your coding agent a voice.
VoxBee runs a local, OpenAI-compatible speech API and an MCP server on your machine. Point Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor at it and they transcribe audio and read text aloud as native tools — 100% on-device, no per-minute billing.
OpenAI-compatible
Point any OpenAI SDK at http://127.0.0.1:5111/v1. Transcription and speech work by changing one line — the base URL.
MCP tools for your agent
A POST /mcp endpoint exposes transcribe, speak, and stop as native tools Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor can call.
Local & private by default
Binds to loopback, authenticates every request with a bearer token, and runs on-device. Your audio never leaves your Mac.
$ claude mcp add --scope user --transport http voxbee \
http://127.0.0.1:5111/mcp \
--header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"The API tab fills in your token and gives copy-paste config for Codex (~/.codex/config.toml) and Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json) too.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
And we're just getting started.
More accuracy, more media types, more intelligence — coming soon.
Voice Cloning
Capture a short sample of your own voice and use it inside Audio Studio. Read scripts, voicemails, and drafts back in the voice that sounds like you.
Read Aloud Anywhere
A global hotkey that reads whatever text you have selected — in any app — using VoxBee's TTS engines. Same floating dock, same six voices, from anywhere on your machine.
One price. Yours forever.
No subscriptions. No cloud fees. Just yours.
One-time purchase · 2 devices included
- ✓Dictate in any app, completely hands-free
- ✓Transcribe any recording in seconds
- ✓Meetings that summarize themselves
- ✓Turn voice notes into polished text
- ✓It learns your names, jargon & acronyms
- ✓Top accuracy from models that run on your machine
- ✓Works in 30 languages
- ✓Fixes grammar & trims filler as you talk
- ✓Make it yours — 8 themes, 8 waveforms
- ✓Your voice never leaves your device
- ✓Pay once. Free updates forever
- ✓Yours on Mac, Windows & Linux
No monthly fees. No accounts. No cloud.