Voice-to-text that stays out of your way.
Press a hotkey, speak naturally, and Hex pastes the transcript into the app you are already using. Speech recognition runs on your Mac.
Free and open source · Apple silicon · macOS 14+
Simple dictation for everyday work.
Hex lives in the menu bar and works wherever you can type. Hold your hotkey for quick dictation or double-tap for hands-free recording.
- Local transcriptionUse Parakeet or Whisper models on your Mac.
- Works across appsPaste into messages, documents, code editors, and browsers.
- Your vocabularyGive Hex the names and technical terms you use often.
- Useful historyKeep transcripts and recover cancelled recordings when history is enabled.
Your audio stays on your Mac.
Hex processes speech with local models, requires no account, and keeps personal analytics on-device. The complete source is available for inspection.
Optional AI cleanup
If you enable cleanup, transcript text is sent to OpenRouter using your own API key. Local transcription continues to work without it.
Ready when you are.
Download the signed and notarized build for Apple silicon Macs.