Questions and answers

Yes. Dictation on your Mac is free, with no word limit; you sign in with a free account. Pro adds Echotype Cloud for $8 a month or $72 a year₹299 a month or ₹2,499 a year.

Yes, a free one. Sign in with Apple, Google or a code sent to your email. There's no password. Signing in also starts your 14-day Pro trial.

A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 13 Ventura or later, with at least 8 GB of memory and 2 GB of free disk. We recommend 16 GB and macOS 14.2 or later. Speech uses about 1 GB of memory while you dictate and cleanup about 1 GB more. Detecting calls needs macOS 14.2 or later.

Not yet. Echotype needs a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later). Intel support may come later.

Download Echotype for Mac, open the file, drag Echotype into Applications, then open it from Applications or Spotlight. It asks for the permissions it needs the first time.

Windows is coming soon. Join the waitlist on the Echotype homepage and you'll get one email when it's ready.

Not by default. On Free, speech recognition and cleanup run on your Mac. Your audio and text go to the cloud only when you use Echotype Cloud, which is part of Pro, or when you pick a cloud provider yourself. Echotype goes online to download its models, check for updates and show notices. Anonymous usage stats are off unless you turn them on, and never include what you say.

Dictation keeps working without internet once you've signed in and the models are downloaded. Echotype Cloud and Pro features need a connection.

They stay on your Mac. History keeps recent dictations so you can run them again, and meeting audio is deleted automatically after the time you choose. Echotype Cloud processes audio to return text and doesn't store it.

Microphone, to hear you. Accessibility, to paste into the app you're using; without it Echotype copies the text for you to paste. Input Monitoring only if you use a single talk key, and Screen Recording only for the computer's audio in meeting notes.

By default the dictation pill stays out of screenshots and screen sharing. Most recorders honour this, though some screen-sharing apps may still capture it.

$8 a month or $72 a year. In India it's ₹299 a month or ₹2,499 a year.₹299 a month or ₹2,499 a year. Payments go through Dodo Payments, which adds any sales tax for your country at checkout. See the pricing page.

Yes. The first time you sign in from the app you get 14 days of Pro, with no card. When it ends you're on Free, which keeps working on your Mac.

Echotype Cloud: Command Mode to edit selected text by voice, saved transforms, cleanup that uses the text on screen and your instructions per app, meeting summaries and Ask, and larger cloud models for speech and cleanup. It also works on Macs without the memory for local models.

Every Mac Echotype runs on can run its models. When memory is short, Echotype types exactly what you said, or Pro does speech and cleanup in Echotype Cloud instead. Sign in to try Pro free for 14 days.

Cancel any time from Account in the app; you keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for. Within 14 days of your first payment, if you've used fewer than 2,000 cloud words since paying, you get a full refund. See the refund policy.

Hold Option and Space, talk, and let go. Echotype writes what you said, cleans it up and pastes it where your cursor is, then puts your clipboard back the way it was.

Yes. In Settings, pick fn or the left or right Control, Option, Command or Shift as a talk key. Hold it to talk, or tap it twice to keep talking hands-free.

Yes. Tap the dictation key twice and Echotype keeps listening until you press it again. Press Esc to cancel.

Any app with a text field: Mail, Slack, Notes, Messages, Notion, Google Docs in your browser, ChatGPT, code editors and terminals. The text goes wherever your cursor is.

Yes. Fillers go, and when you correct yourself, for example "four, no wait, five", the correction replaces the mistake.

Yes. When you dictate a list ("packing list: charger, passport, headphones" or "2 chargers, 3 adapters and a passport"), Echotype writes it as a list. You can also say "new line" to start a new line.

Yes, with Pro. Select text in any app and say what to change, such as shorter or friendlier, and Echotype rewrites it in place.

Works well in more than 40 languages, and Echotype detects which one you speak from one dictation to the next. For short phrases in a language other than English, picking yours in Settings is more reliable.

Speak Hindi, English or both. Echotype types Hindi in Devanagari, or Hinglish in English letters if you prefer.

Yes. Add them to your dictionary and Echotype spells them the way you want.

Yes. Choose the menu bar instead of the pill in Settings, and the menu bar icon shows when Echotype is listening.

Cleanup takes about a tenth of a second on a recent Mac with Apple silicon, so the text lands moments after you let go of the key.

Yes. It writes down Meet, Teams, Zoom, Slack huddle and FaceTime calls as people talk, with who said what, all on your Mac. It hears your microphone and, with Screen Recording permission, the computer's audio. Pro adds meeting summaries and lets you ask questions about a meeting.

No. When a call app starts using the microphone, Echotype offers to take notes. It only checks which app has the microphone, and never listens until notes start.

Yes. Drag an .opus, .m4a, .mp3 or .wav file onto the Echotype window and you get a clean transcript.

macOS Dictation types the words you say. Echotype also cleans them up: it removes fillers, applies your corrections and formats lists, and it writes meeting notes with who said what. With Pro it can also rewrite selected text by voice.

Wispr Flow sends your audio to its servers, its free plan stops at 2,000 words a week, and Pro is $15 a month on monthly billing. Echotype's Free plan turns your speech into text on your Mac with no word limit, and Pro is $8 a month.

Superwhisper's free plan runs speech-to-text on your Mac without AI cleanup, and its Pro plan is $8.49 a month. Echotype's Free plan includes cleanup on your Mac, and Pro is $8 a month.

Willow ($15 a month) and Aqua Voice ($12 a month) process your dictation on their servers by default. Echotype does it on your Mac by default, for free.