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Speaklively

A Mac dictation app that listens on the Mac and shows you the words before it types them.

Platform
macOS 26, Apple silicon
Started
August 2026
What we built
Mac app, AI rewrites, backend, website, brand
A Space Black MacBook Pro on a mossy rock above a sea of cloud at blue hour, Speaklively's review panel on its screen

Read it before it types

Every other dictation app pastes what it heard and hopes. Speaklively holds what you said in a small panel, in four versions, and types nothing until you press Return. Your voice never leaves the Mac.

The Speaklively mark as frosted blue glass, floating in mountain fog
The app icon as a block of smoked glass on wet slate
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speaklively. The break in the name is carried by colour alone.

A “Read it before it types” poster pasted on a concrete wall in an alpine village
A hand holding a navy keycap printed with the mark
A navy mug with the mark on a stone windowsill, mountains in mist outside
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A voice that levels out, then a cursor.

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A brand set at blue hour

Cold light, fog in the valleys, the quiet before anyone else is typing. It is the hour people think out loud, so everything Speaklively makes lives there: the palette, the type, the site. The mark is a voice that levels out into a cursor.

A mountain ridge at dawn whose outline traces the Speaklively mark: a wave, a level line, a tall pinnacle
The mark is the landscape: speech rises and falls, levels out, and ends in a cursor.

Hold fn and speak. It waits for you.

Three steps, and nothing is typed until you choose. Your words wait in a small panel, in four versions: Original, Tidy, Polish and Structure.

  1. 01Hold fnIn Mail, Slack, Docs, anywhere you can type on your Mac.
  2. 02SpeakTalk the way you think. The ums and restarts are fine; Original keeps every word.
  3. 03Pick one, press ReturnTidy, Polish or Structure. Nothing is typed until you press Return.
A fingertip holding the fn key on a Space Black MacBook keyboard01 Hold fn
The Speaklively panel, cycling through Original, Tidy, Polish and Structure
02 Speak, 03 pick a version

Your voice stays on the Mac

Transcription runs on the Mac. Tidy works with the Wi-Fi off, on a plane or anywhere else. Polish and Structure go to Claude only when you press them, and only the text.

A MacBook on a plane tray table at sunrise, the Tidy version on screen
● STAYS ON THIS MAC

Speak on a plane. Works offline too.

Your voice
never leaves the Mac
Transcription
on-device
Tidy
works offline
Polish, Structure
text only, when you press

First thing, last thing

And the long email in between. It works anywhere you can type on your Mac. Fast enough for a Slack reply, careful enough for the email you can’t get wrong.

Someone at a desk by a window onto misty peaks, Speaklively’s panel on a Space Black MacBook Pro
A man at a kitchen counter at sunrise talking to his MacBook, the Structure version on screenFirst thing
A Space Black MacBook glowing on a bed at night, the panel on screenLast thing
WHAT YOU SAID

Um so before Friday I need to do three things, uh finish the churn breakdown, get the pricing change reviewed, and I guess write up the onboarding notes, I mean if we don’t do all three we can’t ship.

WHAT IT TYPED

Before Friday I need to do three things: finish the churn breakdown, get the pricing change reviewed, and write up the onboarding notes. If we don’t do all three, we can’t ship.

The site, the brand, the download

speaklively.com carries the same blue hour, with a working demo of the panel you can press before you install anything.

A MacBook Pro on a table at blue hour, speaklively.com glowing on its screen

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