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Momito
Local hold-to-talk dictation for macOS, free and offline
Fully local hold-to-talk dictation for macOS. Hold Right Option, speak, release, and your words are typed into whatever app has focus. Parakeet TDT v2 on MLX, Apple silicon, nothing leaves the Mac. - velvetchief/momito
Hi Product Hunt! I built Momito because I loved the hold-to-talk dictation workflow but not the idea of my voice going to someone's server, or paying monthly for it. Local models got good enough this year that the tradeoff disappeared: on an M-series Mac, transcription is near-instant and the accuracy surprised me.
It's a small tool: a schnauzer in your menu bar, one hotkey, and a dashboard showing everything you've dictated (stored only on your Mac). Install is from source with two Terminal commands, because keeping it free mattered more to me than a fancy installer. The README walks through every step.
Would love to hear what you'd want next. Custom hotkeys and sound tweaks are top of my list.
This is great. Local, free, one hotkey, exactly what dictation should be. Free still feels rare for something in this category. The schnauzer in the menu bar is a lovely touch.
Congrats on the launch!
Holding right option as the trigger is a quietly brilliant call—feels invisible until you need it, then it just becomes part of how you type. Love that everything stays on-device too.
About Momito on Product Hunt
“Local hold-to-talk dictation for macOS, free and offline”
Momito was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #71 on the daily leaderboard. Fully local hold-to-talk dictation for macOS. Hold Right Option, speak, release, and your words are typed into whatever app has focus. Parakeet TDT v2 on MLX, Apple silicon, nothing leaves the Mac. - velvetchief/momito
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Who hunted Momito?
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