Chip
Apple Silicon
M1 or later
On-device dictation for macOS
Speak it.
It's written.
Push-to-talk dictation that drops clean, punctuated text into any app — transcribed on your Mac in about a seventh of a second. No cloud. No account. No word limits.
You're on the list. We'll email you the day it opens.
Watch it work
Apple Silicon·macOS 14+·Notarized by Apple·Audio never leaves your device
Writes into SlackVS CodeNotesMailGoogle DocsLinear anywhere you type
Capability
Talk into any app.
The words just land.
Hold one key, say your sentence, let go. Flow Dusty types it where your cursor already is — Slack, your editor, an email, a form. No window to switch to, no paste step.
And it does it without a single byte of audio leaving your Mac — recognition
runs locally, so “works everywhere” never means “sends everywhere.”
Slack Shipping Friday — final QA tonight.
VS Code // TODO: handle the empty-state case
Mail Thanks for the notes — addressed all three.
Linear Fix push-to-talk debounce on wake.
Privacy
Your voice never leaves the machine.
No account. No upload. No “we process your audio to improve our service.” The model lives on your Apple Silicon and runs there — offline if you like. There's no cloud step to opt out of, because there's no cloud step.
Which is also why it's fast — there's no recording to upload and no
server round-trip. Local isn't just private, it's instant.
Capability
It cleans up as you talk.
The “ums,” the false starts, the missing commas — gone. You get finished sentences, capitalized and punctuated, not a raw transcript you have to fix. Around nine in ten words land right out of the box, then the cleanup pass does the polish.
On-device, still. The cleanup happens locally too — polish without a
privacy tax.
You saidum yeah lets uh circle back on the pricing thing next week i guess
Flow Dusty wroteYeah — let's circle back on the pricing next week.
How it works
Three keys. No setup ritual.
Install once, grant the mic, and it's ready. The whole loop is push-to-talk.
01
Hold the hotkey
Press and hold ⌥ Right-Option from anywhere. The orb lights up — Flow Dusty is listening.
02
Say your sentence
Speak naturally — ums, restarts and all. Recognition runs locally on your Apple Silicon as you talk.
03
Let go — it's typed
Release the key. Clean, punctuated text lands at your cursor, in whatever app you're already in.
The difference
The difference is where it runs.
Most dictation apps send your voice to a server. Flow Dusty doesn't.
| Capability | Flow Dusty | Typical cloud dictation |
|---|---|---|
| Audio leaves your device | Never | Every time |
| Works offline | Yes | No |
| Account required | No | Usually |
| Monthly word cap | None | Metered |
| Latency | ~140 ms, local | network round-trip |
Requirements
Built for Apple Silicon.
macOS
14 Sonoma+
15 Sequoia ready
Account
None
No sign-up, ever
Network
Optional
Works fully offline
EARLY BUILD · BETA
Curious now? Try the early build.
A quiet beta for the brave, while we polish the launch. Free during the beta — no subscription, no per-word fees. The waitlist is still the front door; this is the side one.
Notarized by Apple. First launch: right-click the app and choose
Open if Gatekeeper asks — or verify the checksum below.
Download for Mac
Flow Dusty 0.1.0 · Apple Silicon · ~Universal DMG
SHA-256
b52b374f9a0b3011ae52b0def72ac2d7bdef8d4f6ec0b0a950fa5ec4b41ed99f Questions
The honest answers.
No. Speech recognition and the cleanup pass both run on your Apple Silicon. There's no upload, no server round-trip, and nothing to opt out of — it works fully offline.
No sign-up, no login, no email required to use the app. Join the waitlist only if you want to be notified at launch.
Around nine in ten words are right out of the box, before any cleanup. A local cleanup pass then fixes punctuation, capitalization and filler — so what lands at your cursor reads like finished writing, not a raw transcript.
Anywhere you can type. Flow Dusty inserts text at your cursor through macOS — Slack, VS Code, Notes, Mail, Google Docs, Linear, browser forms, terminals. If it has a text field, it works.
Free during the beta — no subscription and no per-word fees. We'll share pricing closer to launch; there will never be a metered word cap.
A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) running macOS 14 or newer. The app is notarized by Apple. No internet connection is required after install.
Be first when Flow Dusty opens.
We're polishing the last details. Join the waitlist and we'll send you the download the day it's ready — no spam, just the launch.
You're on the list. We'll email you the day it opens.
Already curious? A quiet early build is available for the brave.