Hex for Mac
Voice transcription tool, press and hold a hotkey to transcribe speech and paste the result anywhere.
By kitlangton. Free and open source, MIT licence.
This app is no longer maintained by its developer. It still installs, but it will not get updates.
Hex at a glance
- Version
- 0.8.5
- Released
- 27 August 2026
- Download size
- 14 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- MIT
- Category
- Productivity
- Developer
- kitlangton
- GitHub stars
- 2.9K
About Hex
Archived: legacy Swift Hex app. New app and source: github.com/anomalyco/hex
How to install Hex on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for Hex and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.8.5 from kitlangton's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to Hex show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Hex-0.8.5.dmg (14 MB).
What is new in Hex 0.8.5
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex/compare/v0.8.4...v0.8.5
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