Talk instead
of type.
Tap the Globe key, speak, tap again, and your words land where your cursor is. In any app, with speech models that run on your Mac.
Can we move the team sync to Wednesday at four thirty? I'll send the notes right after.
Your voice, five ways.
All in one quiet app.
Say it instead.
- Tap Globe (fn) to start and finish, Esc to cancel. Or choose your own shortcut, like ⌃⌥Space or a lone tap of Right ⌘.
- Words appear live in the text box where the app allows it; otherwise Jot pastes when you stop.
- Everything is kept in History, so nothing you say is lost.
Nowhere. The models run on your Mac.
- Parakeet Ultra for the most accurate English, Parakeet v3 for 25 European languages, Parakeet Realtime for the fastest streaming.
- Apple's on-device speech shows your words live as you talk.
- Download, cancel, switch and delete models on the Models page.
Notes you can talk into.
- Folders, pins, search and Markdown shortcuts.
- Dictate straight into a note.
- Save any dictation or recording as a note.
Leave it running.
- Audio is saved to disk as it goes, so a crash loses at most a moment.
- A live transcript while you listen.
- Transcribe it again later with the model you choose.
Both sides, one transcript.
- Your microphone plus what the Mac plays, for FaceTime, Zoom or Meet.
- Saved with its audio, ready to copy or keep as a note.
- Jot shows the other side no notice, so telling them you're recording is up to you.
Three steps, then just talk.
No account and no sign-in. Jot sets itself up on your Mac with a short walkthrough the first time you open it.
Pick a model
Choose one on the Models page. It downloads once from Hugging Face and runs on your Mac's Neural Engine from then on.
Allow two permissions
The microphone, to hear you, and Accessibility, so the shortcut works and Jot can type into other apps.
Tap Globe and talk
Speak, tap again, and the text lands at your cursor. Esc cancels. Every dictation is kept in History.
What you say stays on your Mac.
Your voice is turned into text by models running on your Mac. No audio or text is sent to any server or transcription service.
Transcribed locally
Parakeet runs on the Neural Engine, and Apple's on-device speech handles the live words.
No account, no server
No analytics, tracking, crash reporting or ads. Jot checks newitools.app for updates about once a day.
Audio stays here
Network requests are model downloads from Hugging Face, macOS fetching its own speech assets, the update check, and cloud cleanup text only if you add your own key.
One folder
Notes, history, recordings and models live in Application Support. Delete the folder and they're gone.
The details that make it yours.
Cleanup
Removes fillers and spoken corrections ("Tuesday, I mean Wednesday") with a built-in model that runs on your Mac, or with your own Groq, OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini key. The original stays in History.
Hold Space to talk
In the apps you choose, hold Space to dictate and let go to finish.
Spelling rules
Tell Jot how to write the words it hears: say "eye phone", get iPhone.
Floating bubble
A small bubble shows when Jot is listening. Hide it if you'd rather not see it.
Open at Login
Lives in the menu bar, ready whenever you are.
For other tools
jot://toggle starts or finishes a dictation, and Jot --transcribe turns an audio file into text.
Questions
Does Jot send my audio anywhere?
No. Audio and transcripts never leave your Mac. Network requests are model downloads, the update check, and, only if you add your own API key for cloud cleanup, the finished text. See the privacy policy.
Which languages does it understand?
English with Parakeet Ultra and Parakeet Realtime. Parakeet v3 writes the final text in 25 European languages, detected automatically; the live preview stays English.
Tapping Globe opens the emoji picker.
Set System Settings › Keyboard › "Press 🌐 key to" to Do Nothing. Or choose a different shortcut in Jot's Settings › Shortcuts.
What do I need?
An Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 26.
Does the other side of a call know I'm recording?
Not from Jot, which shows no notice by design. Recording people may require their consent where you live, so tell them.
What does it cost?
Nothing. Jot is free and open source under the MIT license.
Say hello to Jot.
Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple. On first launch, pick a speech model; the cleanup model is optional.