Your voice never leavesyour machine.
On-device dictation with AI formatting. Press a key, speak, and clean text lands in whatever app you are already in. Buy it once. Windows and Mac.
tauri 2 · rust · whisper.cpp AVX2 · parakeet tdt v3 · 8.4 MB
Windows 10 and 11, macOS 11 and later. Free forever, no account, no telemetry.
The bar you actually see
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Why it is different
Three things the cloud apps cannot do.
Dictation is a solved problem. Dictation that does not ship every word you say to somebody else's server, that runs properly on both Windows and Mac, and that does not bill you monthly, is not.
Nothing leaves your device
Whisper and Parakeet run on your own CPU. Turn the WiFi off and dictation still works. The only cloud options are opt-in, off by default, and use a key you supply yourself.
Windows and Mac, one app
Almost every polished dictation app is Mac only. HushQuill is native on both, from one codebase, so the features land together. It runs at many times realtime on an ordinary laptop CPU with no GPU, and uses the GPU on Apple Silicon.
No subscription. Ever.
Unlimited dictation is free, permanently, with no watermark and no nag. Pro is a single payment for the AI layer. There is no monthly plan at any price, and there never will be.
What is in it
Everything below is in the free build.
Not a stripped demo. This is the whole dictation engine, uncapped. Every item here is covered properly in the user guide.
Two hotkeys
One shows and hides the floating bar, one starts and stops dictating. Both rebindable.
Three dictation modes
Toggle, continuous (each pause types a segment and keeps listening), or push to talk.
Auto engine picking
Chooses the fastest engine for your language and your hardware. Override it whenever you like.
Silence detection
A pure Rust WebRTC VAD trims dead air and can stop the take for you after a set pause.
Types into any app
Editors, browsers, chat, terminals, Office. The overlay never steals focus from what you are writing in.
Text never gets lost
If no text box is focused the transcript parks on your clipboard, and one button re-inserts it wherever you click next.
Cleanup and dictionary
Filler removal, punctuation and capitalisation, plus your own spellings for names and jargon.
Snippets
Say a trigger phrase, get a full block of text. Signatures, addresses, boilerplate.
Voice commands
"New line", "new paragraph", "scratch that". Deliberately few, so they never collide with real speech.
Microphone picker
Choose any input and swap it live. If a device is unplugged it falls back to the system default.
Tray and autostart
Launches to the system tray at login and stays out of the way until you press the key.
Updates in the app
Signed updates install in one click. Full release notes are readable inside the app before you take them.
For the people who ask first
The honest spec.
No Electron, no bundled browser, no background service phoning home. The installer is 8.4 MB because there is not much in it beyond the app.
Speech models are downloaded on first run from within the app, so you choose what lands on disk and when.
- Shell
- Tauri 2, Rust backend
- Local STT
- whisper.cpp, AVX2 baseline
- Fast engine
- Parakeet TDT v3, ONNX Runtime
- Voice detection
- WebRTC VAD, pure Rust
- Installer size
- 8.4 MB
- Network at rest
- one update check on launch
- Dictation network
- none, unless you enable a cloud engine
- Telemetry
- none
- Account required
- no
- Windows
- 10 and 11, x64
- macOS
- 11+, universal binary
- Licence model
- one-time, 3 devices
The maths
Cloud dictation subscriptions run about $12 to $15 a month. That is roughly $150 a year, every year, to rent something that runs perfectly well on the laptop you already own.
HushQuill Pro is $29 once. The free tier never expires and never asks for a card.
Languages
Speaks about 99 languages. Including the ones nobody else bothers with.
Language detection is on by default, so a fresh install just works whatever you speak. Urdu, Hindi and other native scripts render right to left correctly, and code-switching mid-sentence does not break it.
Native script, not transliteration
Urdu comes out in Urdu script with the right punctuation, not Roman approximations.
Free access, paid accuracy
Every language works on the free tier. Pro adds the larger local models, which is where the real quality gain for Urdu and Hindi lives.
What we do not claim
We do not claim to beat Whisper on raw Urdu accuracy. We claim it is private, it is on Windows as well as Mac, it handles the script properly, and it is free to try forever.
Pricing
Free is the mechanics. Pro is the intelligence.
If it is rules and speed, it is free. If an AI model does work on your words, it is paid. That is the entire tier line.
Free
$0 forever
No account, no trial clock, no expiry.
- Unlimited dictation, no caps or watermark
- All three dictation modes, both hotkeys, the bar
- Parakeet fast engine and Whisper tiny plus base
- About 99 languages with auto detection
- Cleanup, custom dictionary, snippets, voice commands
- 3 AI rewrites a day, so you can taste the paid part
Pro
$29 once, first 500
$39 after that. One payment, 3 devices, free updates, no subscription at any price.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited AI formatting, no daily meter
- App-aware rewriting: email reads like email, chat stays short, code stays terse
- Spoken instructions: end with "make that formal" and it does
- Whisper small and medium, the accuracy models
- Formatting runs locally through Ollama by default
Pro is not on sale yet. The free build already does unlimited dictation, so there is nothing to wait for to start using it.
Download
Get it now.
Same version, same features, both platforms. One small installer, and the speech models download from inside the app on first run so you pick what goes on disk.
Get told once, when it matters
The macOS download the day it goes up, and the day Pro opens at the $29 launch price. Nothing else. Leaving is one click.
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