Hold a key, speak, release: polished text lands in any app on your Mac. Epilude transcribes, punctuates, cleans up, and matches your tone in about a second. Runs fully on-device, so audio never leaves your Mac.
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Gustav, one of the makers of Epilude.
Most of my work day is writing: prompting, code reviews, Slack messages and a lot of emails. When I hurt my elbow, I needed a to find a way to keep up my writing without putting too much strain on my arm, which led us to building Epilude.
We wanted a voice typing tool that was smooth as butter, typed what we intended to say just the way we intended to say it, and most importantly kept all our data on my Mac without anything we said being sent to anyone else's server.
Epilude is just that. It turns speech into finished writing, completely locally using open-weight speech-to-text and cleanup models that we've fine-tuned to work as well as possible on your Mac, with a tiny footprint.
After installing it (Mac only for now), simply hold a key, say what you want to write (even in a rough format), release. Epilude will transcribe, punctuate and format your writing, trim the rambling, and match the tone to the app you're in: formal in Mail, casual in iMessage. It takes about a second, and it works in any text field in your Mac.
My favourite use case is that I've noticed that it helps me code more effectively with LLMs. I've found rambling out a longer prompt and then tightening it up with Epilude is a lot faster and more effective than writing each prompt by hand. I type about 44 words a minute. I speak closer to 150.
Mac only for now, and Local Mode needs Apple Silicon. For now, full on-device cleanup requires 16GB of RAM whilst we optimise our local models; on smaller Macs you still get on-device transcription with basic formatting, and it still never touches the cloud.
If you've never used a voice dictation tool for Mac, I encourage you try dictating out your next long email or prompt!
About Epilude on Product Hunt
“Local voice dictation for Mac for polished text”
Epilude launched on Product Hunt on July 29th, 2026 and earned 107 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #10 on the daily leaderboard. Hold a key, speak, release: polished text lands in any app on your Mac. Epilude transcribes, punctuates, cleans up, and matches your tone in about a second. Runs fully on-device, so audio never leaves your Mac.
On the analytics side, Epilude competes within Mac, Productivity and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Epilude performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Epilude?
Epilude was hunted by Gustav Ek. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Epilude including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Gustav Ek