Pithflow for Mac · macOS 12 or later
Dictation app for Mac. Hold a key, speak, release.
Pithflow turns your voice into clean text in any Mac app — Mail, Slack, Notes, Safari, your editor.
Download for Mac Free · 2,000 words a week · no card
Pithflow turns your voice into clean text in any Mac app — Mail, Slack, Notes, Safari, your editor.
Pithflow is a dictation app for Mac. Hold Control + Shift + Space in any app, speak, release, and the finished text is typed where your cursor is — filler and false starts removed, punctuation in place, in the tone you chose. It runs on macOS 12 or later, is free for 2,000 words a week, and the same account works on Windows.
Microphone, so Pithflow can hear you, and Accessibility, so it can type into other apps. macOS asks for the microphone itself. For Accessibility, Pithflow opens System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility and you switch it on. Until that's done, dictation stays off so no words are used up.
Long email or first draft? Hands-free mode: tap once to start, tap again to stop.
Pro removes the word cap and the meeting limits: $9.99 a month or $99 a year. See pricing.
Your Mac already dictates. Here is where the two differ, honestly:
| Pithflow | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Types into any app | Yes | Yes |
| Removes filler and false starts | Yes | No — it types what it hears |
| Tone and style you choose | Yes, 8 tones | No |
| Snippets and a personal dictionary | Yes | No |
| Price | Free for 2,000 words a week; Pro $9.99/mo | Free, unlimited |
macOS Dictation is free, unlimited and already on your Mac. If your text comes out the way you want it, keep using it. Pithflow earns its place when you'd otherwise spend time deleting filler and fixing punctuation, or when you switch between Spanish and English as you talk.
Two things the Windows app has: capturing a video call's audio (Mac meetings record from the microphone), and the three quick dictation modes added to the Windows app in October 2026. Everything on this page is in the Mac build you download here.
Any Mac running macOS 12 (Monterey) or later. It's one universal download — the same file runs on all of them, so there is nothing to pick.
That is how a Mac app types into another app. Without it, Pithflow could only put your words on the clipboard. You switch it on once in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility; Pithflow opens that pane for you the first time.
The app is signed with our Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, which is what lets macOS verify it and open it normally on first launch. The download comes from pithflow.com.
No. Your audio is sent to Pithflow's servers for speech recognition and cleanup, and it is not stored. Pithflow tells you this before your first recording and asks you to confirm.
Yes: 2,000 words a week, AI cleanup, every language, 10 snippets and 25 dictionary terms. Pro ($9.99 a month or $99 a year) removes the cap. One account works on your Mac and on Windows.
Yes. Pithflow keeps the language you spoke — say “pásame el report antes del meeting” and that is what lands. It never translates unless you ask it to.
Download the newest version from this page and drag it into Applications over the old one. Your account and settings stay.
One key to talk. Clean text in every app on macOS 12 or later.
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