Purr for Mac

Name: Purr
Author: iamarunbrahma

100% local, on-device voice-to-text dictation — hold a key, speak, and your words type into any text field.

By iamarunbrahma. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Purr at a glance

Version: 0.0.1
Released: 15 June 2026
Download size: 10 MB
Works on: Apple silicon and Intel
Licence: MIT
Category: Audio and Music
Developer: iamarunbrahma
GitHub stars: 106

About Purr

Purr: Hold a key. Speak. Your words type into any text field - 100% local, on-device

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How to install Purr on a Mac

Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
Search for Purr and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.0.1 from iamarunbrahma'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 Purr 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: Purr.dmg (10 MB).

What is new in Purr 0.0.1

First public release of Purr: local, on-device voice-to-text dictation for macOS on Apple Silicon. Free and MIT-licensed, with no telemetry and no cloud round-trips.

## Install

1. Download `Purr.dmg` below.
2. Open it and drag `Purr.app` to your Applications folder.
3. First launch: double-click Purr.app and click **Open** in the one-time "Purr is an app downloaded from the Internet - are you sure you want to open it?" dialog.
4. Grant the three permissions when prompted: Microphone, Accessibility, and Input Monitoring.
5. Hold **Right Option**, speak, release. Your transcript types into whichever app has focus.

## Verify integrity (optional)

Download `Purr.dmg.sha256` alongside the DMG, then in the same folder run:

```
shasum -a 256 -c Purr.dmg.sha256
```

It should print `Purr.dmg: OK`.

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