Your words stay with you.
Fast local dictation for macOS. Hold a key, speak, and text appears wherever you're typing.
Buy on Mac App Store — £12.99 Requires Apple Silicon (M1+) and macOS 14 Sonoma or laterEmail, Slack, code editors, docs, the address bar. If it takes text, Echo Ghost writes into it.
Your hotkey, your choice. Hold-to-talk or tap-to-toggle.
Text lands in the focused app the moment you stop speaking.
No network round-trip, no sign-in, no account.
Everything else
No cloud, no servers, no network requests. Ever.
Strips "um", "uh", "like" and self-corrections.
Works across 90+ languages. Best-in-class on the major ones.
Hold to record, or tap to start and tap to stop. Your choice.
Use whatever key combo you want, not just Control.
Off by default. Browse and replay past recordings, stored only on your Mac.
Notch-first design. No dock icon, no windows in the way.
Choose faster transcription or higher accuracy to match your needs.
Optimized for M-series chips. Transcribes in seconds.
Most voice tools send your audio to the cloud and promise they won't misuse it. Echo Ghost can't misuse it - the data never leaves your machine. There's nothing to trust because there's nothing to leak.
Turn on what helps. Off by default.
Only transcribes you, not background chatter. Colleagues, TV, coffee shop noise — ignored.
Writes differently for email, Slack, code editors, and documents.
Fix a word once and it remembers next time. The more you use it, the less you correct.
Teach it names, jargon, and words it keeps getting wrong. Always local.
Most voice tools charge monthly and send your audio to their servers. Echo Ghost does neither.
| Echo Ghost | Cloud alternatives | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs locally | Yes | No |
| Inserts into any app | Yes | Varies |
| One-time purchase | £12.99 | £10–20/month |
| Works offline | Always | No |
| Audio leaves your Mac | Never | Yes |
| Latency | Instant (on-device) | Network round-trip |
Draft emails, articles, and notes at the speed of speech. Cleanup handles the rest.
Voice-to-code comments, commit messages, docs. Knows the difference between Slack and your IDE.
Capture lecture notes, study thoughts, and research ideas hands-free.
Voice input for anyone who prefers speaking to typing. Local, fast, and always available.
One-time purchase. Yours forever.
Most alternatives charge £10–20/month. Echo Ghost costs about one month of a subscription — once.
Not included
Requires Apple Silicon (M1+) and macOS 14+
Yes, 100%. Echo Ghost runs entirely on your Mac with no internet connection required. Models download once during setup, then everything runs locally.
Any Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) running macOS 14 Sonoma or newer.
90+ languages via the multilingual model. English-only mode is available for faster transcription. You can enable auto-translation to English in settings.
No. Transcriptions exist only in memory while the app is running. Nothing is written to disk or sent over the network. When you close the app, it's gone. Transcription history is opt-in and stored only on your Mac.
Echo Ghost uses the same Whisper models that power most cloud transcription services, but runs them locally on your Mac. On top of that, a local LLM cleans up filler words, handles self-corrections, and learns your vocabulary over time - so accuracy improves the more you use it.
Echo Ghost works with any app that accepts text input. Hold your hotkey, speak, and the transcribed text is pasted into whatever app is focused - Slack, Zoom chat, email, your code editor, notes, anywhere.
Echo Ghost lives in your menu bar, designed to work around the MacBook notch. No dock icon, no floating windows - just a clean, unobtrusive presence.