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Talk to your Mac.
Watch it type.

Press a key and speak. Rember types your words as you say them, and the moment you stop it pastes the lot into whatever you were working in. Every bit of it runs on your Mac, in real time, for free.

Download for macOS How it works

v1.0.7·macOS 15+·Apple silicon·32 MB

RemberRecording
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⌥space to start and stop
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1 keyTo start and to stop

How it works

Press. Talk. Done.

There is no window to open and nothing to click. Rember waits in the menu bar until you need it.

01

Press the key

Option-Space from anywhere. A small panel drops from the notch, or floats mid-screen if you prefer, and starts listening.

Shortcut is yours to change
02

Say it

Words appear in the panel as you speak, not after. You can see the sentence forming while it is still in your mouth.

Streaming recognition, on-device
03

Press it again

The panel slides away and the text is pasted where your cursor was. Tidied up, if you asked for that. Nothing to copy.

Escape cancels, nothing pasted

Features

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Types while you talk

Streaming speech recognition puts words on screen the instant they are heard. No waiting at the end for a transcript to arrive.

Pastes when you stop

Stop the recording and the result lands in the app you were in, at your cursor. Mail, Slack, a terminal, a text field in a browser.

Stays on your Mac

Apple Speech, Parakeet and Whisper models run locally. No account, no servers, no analytics. Your voice never leaves the machine.

Formatting modes

Clean, Formal, Question, Notes, Call Notes, or your own prompt. Apple Intelligence or a small on-device language model tidies the words without changing what you meant.

Lives in the notch

The recording panel hangs from the camera housing with a live waveform and the words as they come. Or float it mid-screen. Either way it is gone the moment you are done.

Every recording kept

Audio, the exact words and the formatted version, all in a folder in your Documents. Replay it, copy it again, or delete it.

Call notes

Mix the other side of a call into the recording with a CoreAudio tap. No screen recording permission, no virtual audio device.

Your words, spelled right

Add names, products and jargon to a vocabulary list and they come out the way you write them, every time.

Free, signed, updated

Developer ID signed and notarised by Apple. Updates arrive in the app. No subscription, no trial, no upsell.

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The best way to talk to a laptop.

Most dictation tools make you wait for the cloud, then charge you monthly for the privilege.

RemberBuilt-in macOS dictationCloud dictation apps
Words appear as you speakYesYesSometimes
Pastes into any app when you stopYesTypes into the focused field onlyYes
Cleans up the text for youYes, on-deviceNoYes, in the cloud
Audio stays on your MacAlwaysMostlyNo
Keeps a history with audioYesNoVaries
Records the other side of a callYesNoSome
Account requiredNoNoYes
PriceFreeFreeMonthly subscription

Pricing

Free right now. Free later.

One version. All features. Nothing behind a paywall.

No trial, no licence key, no card
Free

For every Mac you own, for as long as you like.

  • Real-time on-device transcription
  • Auto-paste into any app
  • All formatting modes and custom prompts
  • Downloadable voice and language models
  • History with audio playback
  • System audio for call notes
  • Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Google key if you want cloud formatting
Download Free for macOS

Notarised by Apple32 MBmacOS 15+

FAQ

Questions.

Does anything get sent to the internet?
Not unless you ask for it. Recognition and formatting run on your Mac. The only outbound traffic is downloading a model you choose, checking for updates, and, if you add your own API key and pick a cloud model, sending transcript text to that provider.
How is it free?
There are no servers to pay for. Everything runs on your hardware, so there is nothing to meter. Rember is a side project by one developer who wanted this to exist.
What does it need to work?
macOS 15 or later. Microphone access to hear you, Speech Recognition for Apple's engine, and Accessibility if you want the result pasted for you rather than left on the clipboard. Apple silicon is recommended for the downloadable models; Apple Intelligence formatting needs macOS 26 on a supported Mac.
How accurate is it?
With a downloaded Parakeet or Whisper model, very. Apple's built-in engine works out of the box and is quick; the downloadable models are better with accents, names and long sentences. Add your own terms to the vocabulary list and they come out spelled the way you write them.
Which languages can I use?
Choose English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese or Japanese, or let Nemotron detect your language automatically. Rember recommends a compatible voice model. Onboarding and core settings are available in English, French, Spanish and German, following your Mac’s app language.
What’s new in 1.0.7?
Check for Updates in Configuration works again, as does the switch for automatic update checks. The release before added fn on its own as a shortcut: tap it to start and stop, or turn on Hold to talk and speak while it’s held. Changing the shortcut is clearer, with one-click choices and a pointer to the macOS setting that stops fn opening the emoji picker.
Can I change the shortcut?
Yes. Option-Space is the default; pick any key combination, or fn on its own, in Configuration. Turn on Hold to talk to record only while the key is held down. Escape always cancels a recording without pasting.
Where do my recordings go?
A folder called Rember in your Documents. Audio, the exact transcript and any formatted version live there as ordinary files. Delete one from History or delete the whole folder; nothing is kept anywhere else.
Is there a Windows or iPhone version?
Not yet. Rember is a Mac app first. An iOS companion is in the works but not part of this release.

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Download Rember 1.0.7
macOS 15+Developer ID signedApple notarisedSparkle updates

Universal-ready, Apple silicon recommended. Menu bar app. Needs Microphone access; Accessibility for auto-paste.