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Talkify for Mac

Fast, free, local-first voice dictation for macOS with on-device transcription.

By tornikegomareli. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Talkify at a glance

Version
1.0.0
Released
17 October 2026
Download size
8.9 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Audio and Music
Developer
tornikegomareli
GitHub stars
597

About Talkify

Lightning-fast, free, local first voice dictation for macOS with on-device transcription

How to install Talkify on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Talkify and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.0.0 from tornikegomareli's own GitHub release.
  3. 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 Talkify 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: Talkify.dmg (8.9 MB).

What is new in Talkify 1.0.0

## Install

```
brew tap tornikegomareli/talkify https://github.com/tornikegomareli/Talkify
brew trust --tap tornikegomareli/talkify
brew install --cask talkify
```

Or download **Talkify.dmg** below. Requires macOS 26 on Apple Silicon.

## Changes

- Intelligence is now **Flying Ghost**, and its center is Talkify's own ghost. When you start dictating it flies out of the notch on an arc and settles in the corner; when you stop, it flies back home. If you picked Intelligence in 0.9.0, you have Flying Ghost now.
- The ghost eats your words. Your live draft flows toward it, and each word is swallowed as it reaches the ghost's mouth, with a chomp. When you finish, the draft leaves first and then the ghost flies home.
- The shape opens small, with the ghost and a four-bar voice indicator in your palette, and widens for your first word. Turn off **Show live draft** in **Settings → Appearance** to keep it small for the whole session.
- A new glow palette, Intelligence, in violet, rose, coral, amber and periwinkle. Flying Ghost looks the same in every palette: only the color changes, and lighter palettes no longer glow brighter than deeper ones.
- The glow answers your voice more calmly than it did in 0.9.0, and the orb is gone.
- A fresh install now opens on Flying Ghost in the Intelligence palette. If you're updating, your look stays as it was.

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