Put the typing down.

Hold a key and talk. Roundhand tidies your words for the app you are in and puts them at your cursor.

Roundhand is voice to text that runs on your computer: speech is recognised there, so voice typing keeps working offline, and your audio is never uploaded.

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Free. Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later.Version 0.6.0

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Download for Windows

Free. Windows 11. Installs from the Microsoft Store.

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Roundhand runs on a Mac or Windows PC.

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Can we push the review to Thursday? I think we need one more day.

um so can we uh push the review to thursday i think we need like one more day

How Roundhand turns speech into text

Roundhand at work in TextEdit, Slack, Mail and Notes. Watch on YouTube or read the transcript.

Hold your dictation key and speak
fnFnRight CtrlfnFn by default. Talk as you would to a friend.
Roundhand writes down what you said
On your computer. Ums go, restarts get sorted.
The text lands at your cursor
Shaped for the app you are in: short in chat, full sentences in email, exact in a terminal.

Roundhand's Dictionary, where words you say, such as round hand, are written the way you want, such as Roundhand. — Pick the key you hold to talk.

Roundhand Settings on the Input tab, showing Fn as the key you hold to dictate and Hold to talk selected. — Pick the key you hold to talk.

Shaped for the app you are in

Roundhand sees where your cursor is and writes to fit.

MessagesShort and casual
EmailFull sentences, ready to send
DocumentsCapitalised, with a closing full stop
BrowsersPlain text for search and forms
Code editors and terminalsCommands keep their exact casing

The Roundhand window on its Apps section, showing a writing style for Terminal, IDE and AI chat, and Prose, above a list of apps and the style each one uses. — Every app gets its own style. Change any of them.

Meeting notes that write themselves

When a call starts, Roundhand offers to record it. Afterwards you have the whole conversation, who said what, and what each person agreed to do.

When a call startsRoundhand offers to record Zoom, Teams, Meet and other calls
While you talkA small window shows the transcript as it is written
Who said whatName the speakers after the call; Roundhand learns your own voice
After the callA summary and each person's action items, with cloud cleanup
Your recordingTranscribed on your computer, and kept for playback only if you choose

A meeting note in Roundhand's Notetaker for a weekly product sync on Zoom, on its Action items tab, with each action item listed under the person who owns it. — Search it, copy it, or export it as Markdown.

Private dictation: your voice stays on your computer

So you can think out loud.

Your computer

Speech is recognised on your computer. Your audio is never uploaded.

The built-in cleanup runs on your computer too.

Roundhand Settings showing the dictation key, Fn, set to hold to talk.

Cloud cleanup

Cloud cleanup is optional. It sends text, never audio.

No analytics in the app. No trackers on this site.

Roundhand in short

What it isA dictation app for Mac and Windows that lives in the menu bar or the system tray.
Where speech is recognisedOn your computer. Your audio is never uploaded.
Without internetDictation and the built-in cleanup work offline once the speech model has downloaded.
Where it writesInto the app in front of you, including chat, email, documents, browsers, code editors and terminals.
MeetingsRecords calls, transcribes them on your computer and labels each speaker. Summaries come with cloud cleanup.
What you needA Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later. A PC with Windows 11 and an x64 (Intel or AMD) processor.

Free for as long as you like

Dictation with the built-in cleanup stays free, and so do meeting transcripts. Paid plans add cloud cleanup, which also writes meeting summaries. One account and one plan cover Mac and Windows, on up to three computers.

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