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inlaut
Free, open-source dictation that never leaves your Mac
inlaut is a menu bar dictation app for the Mac. Hold a shortcut or the π key, speak, let go, and the text is pasted into whatever app you are in. Recognition runs entirely on your Mac, on the Neural Engine (NVIDIA Parakeet as Core ML), so it works offline and nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. It handles English, German and sentences that mix both. No account, no subscription. Free and open source (GPL-3.0). Needs Apple silicon and macOS 26.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Tobias. inlaut is my hobby project: I dictate a lot, in German and English, and didn't want my mails and notes to go through a cloud service. Apple's own dictation kept getting technical terms wrong for me, so I built this.
How it works: hold a shortcut or the π key, speak, let go. The text lands at the cursor in any app.
What's different:
- Everything runs on your Mac (Parakeet on the Neural Engine). The only network calls are the one-time model download and the update check.
- English, German and sentences that mix both, with a single model.
- About 50 MB of memory while idle.
- Free and open source (GPL-3.0), no account.
Limits: Apple silicon and macOS 26 only, and it is plain dictation without AI rewriting.
I'd love to hear what is missing for your daily use.
About inlaut on Product Hunt
βFree, open-source dictation that never leaves your Macβ
inlaut was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #157 on the daily leaderboard. inlaut is a menu bar dictation app for the Mac. Hold a shortcut or the π key, speak, let go, and the text is pasted into whatever app you are in. Recognition runs entirely on your Mac, on the Neural Engine (NVIDIA Parakeet as Core ML), so it works offline and nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. It handles English, German and sentences that mix both. No account, no subscription. Free and open source (GPL-3.0). Needs Apple silicon and macOS 26.
On the analytics side, inlaut competes within Mac, Productivity, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps β topics that collectively have 821.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how inlaut performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted inlaut?
inlaut was hunted by Toby Marks. A βhunterβ on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform β 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.
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