Voice to polished text, in every app on your Mac
Say it once.
It’s already written.
Hold ⌥ Space, speak, and clean, well-punctuated text appears where your cursor is — Mail, Slack, Notion, your code editor. Speech and cleanup run on your Mac, in 99 languages.
Free during the beta · Apple silicon · macOS 13 or later
- ship the beta on Thursday,
- fix the payment page first,
- send the designs to Ben tomorrow.
How it works
Read the guide →- 1
Click where the text should go.
Any app: an email, a chat, a document, the terminal.
- 2
Hold ⌥ Space and speak.
The bar at the bottom of the screen listens. Pause as long as you like.
- 3
Let go. It’s written.
Cleaned up on your Mac and pasted at the cursor, usually in under a second.
You talk like a person.
It writes like an editor.
What you said
What appears
Lists come out as lists
What you said
What appears
- cucumbers
- tomatoes
- two litres of milk
- eggs
2×
as fast as typing. Most people type about 52 words a minute; speaking runs past 100.
<1 s
is the usual wait from letting go of the key to clean text at your cursor, on Apple silicon.
99
languages with Whisper, detected as you speak. Switch between them freely.
0
words leave your Mac by default. Speech and cleanup run on the device.
Why MindClerk
Built to disappear
into your day.
Private by default
Speech and cleanup run on your Mac. Nothing leaves it unless you choose a cloud model.
Fast
About twice as fast as typing, with the text at your cursor moments after you let go.
Works in every app
Anything that takes typing: mail, chat, docs, the browser, your editor, the terminal.
Understands 99 languages
Detected as you speak, and never translated by accident. Switch between them freely.
Cleans up like an editor
Fillers, false starts and self-corrections gone; punctuation and lists where they belong.
Meeting notes without a bot
Both sides of the call recorded on your Mac; summary and to-dos when you hang up.
You choose the model
Free models on your Mac, or any cloud provider with your own key — never marked up.
No account, no tracking
No sign-up, no analytics, no telemetry. It is your Mac and your words.
Dictation
Everything you type,
you can now say.
No plugins, no copy and paste. It writes into whatever has the cursor, and fits your words into the sentence that is already there.
Works in every app.
Mail, Slack, Notion, Docs, Linear, VS Code, the terminal, a browser field. Lists arrive as real lists; a word mid-sentence arrives in lowercase.
- Slack
- Notion
- Google Docs
- Cursor
- VS Code
- Terminal
- Linear
- Telegram
- ChatGPT
- Claude
Private by design.
Speech recognition and AI cleanup run on your Mac. No account, and no audio on anyone’s server.
On-device
Changed your mind? Just say so.
“Tuesday — actually Thursday” becomes “Thursday”.
Send it Wednesday.
Undo the AI, keep your words.
Didn’t like an edit? ⌥⇧Z swaps your own words back in place. Press it again to redo.
Speaks your language.
Detected as you speak and never translated by accident.
- English
- Русский
- Deutsch
- Español
- Français
- 中文
- 日本語
- Português
- and 91 more
A dictionary that learns your words.
Names, products and jargon, spelled your way. Snippets turn a phrase into a paragraph: say “my address” and it is written out.
- “mind clerk”
- MindClerk
- “cooper netties”
- Kubernetes
- “my address”
- 221B Baker Street, London NW1 6XE
Knows where you are.
Code in the editor, commands in the terminal, a friendly tone in chat and a professional one in email — per-app modes choose for you.
- VS Code, Cursor, XcodeCode
- Terminal, iTerm2, WarpTechnical
- Slack, DiscordChat
- Mail, SparkProfessional email
And the little things
A bar that stays out of the way
A thin line at the bottom of the screen. Hover it to switch the language, start a note or pick a transform.
History you can search
Every dictation, with its recording. Replay it, copy it again, or run it through another transform.
Insights
Words dictated, your speaking speed against typing, your streak — counted on your Mac.
Scratchpad
No text field in sight? ⌥ S opens a floating editor to dictate into.
Seven sound styles
Soft start and stop cues, chosen by ear — from a quiet hush to felt and glass. Or none at all.
Repolish or paste again
Run the last dictation through cleanup again, or paste it once more wherever the cursor is now.
Agents
Built-in agents for
every kind of writing.
Each one is a transform: run it after a dictation, on selected text, or ask for what you want in your own words with Command mode.
- Default
Clean up
Punctuation, fillers and self-corrections. Your words, in your order.
On for every dictation, like a good editor.
Professional email
Polished and concise, with every fact kept exactly as you said it.
“tell ben we’re late” → a proper email.
Bullet points
One idea per bullet, pasted as a real list.
A meeting recap in five seconds.
Command mode
Select text, hold ⌥⇧E and say what to do with it.
“make this shorter and friendlier”
Code & terminal
“dash dash help” and “snake case user id” become real syntax.
Comments stay in your language.
Translate to English
Speak any language, get natural English.
Russian in, English out.
Prompt engineer
A rough idea becomes a clear, specific prompt for any AI.
For ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor.
Meeting assistant
Hold ⌥⇧A anywhere and ask about your meetings.
“list the questions I still owe answers to”
- Yours
Your own agents
Write a prompt or a set of rules, give it a key, choose its model.
“Jira ticket”, “Tweet”, “Legal tone”…
Models
Bring any model.
Or none at all.
Whisper or Parakeet turn speech into text on your Mac, and Gemma cleans it up there too — free, offline. Prefer the cloud? Point any agent at a provider with your own key, billed by them, never marked up.
- Whisper · on this Mac
- Parakeet · on this Mac
- Gemma · on this Mac
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Gemini
- Groq
- OpenRouter
- Ollama
- Deepgram
- ElevenLabs
Shortcuts
Your hands stay on the keyboard.
- ⌥SpaceHold to talkRecords while held; let go to paste.
- ⌥⇧SpaceHands freeTap to start, tap to stop; stops on silence too.
- EscCancelStops whatever is in progress.
- ⌥⇧ECommand modeSay what to do with the selected text.
- ⌥⇧ZUndo AI editYour own words back; press again to redo.
- ⌥⇧PPolish againCleans up the last dictation once more.
- ⌃⌘VPaste last dictationPastes the most recent text again.
- ⌥SScratchpadOpens or closes the floating editor.
- ⌥⇧NMeeting notesStarts or stops notes of the call.
- ⌥⇧AMeeting assistantAsk about your meetings; the answer is typed.
- ⌥1Clean up selectionRuns the transform on selected text.
- ⌥2Technical / terminalSpoken syntax becomes real syntax.
- ⌥3Professional emailA polished email from the selection.
The defaults — every one can be changed in Settings → General.
Notetaker
Be in the meeting.
Not in your notes.
MindClerk notices a Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime, Slack or Telegram call and offers to take notes. It records both sides on your Mac and writes the summary and the to-dos when you hang up. No bot joins your call.
Launch sync
Today, 10:00 · 32 min · Google Meet · Anna Petrova, Ben Li, you
Summary
- The beta moves to Thursday, after the payment fix.
- The European card bug is the only blocker.
- Marketing gets the release notes on Wednesday.
Action items
You: send Ben the final designs
Anna: send the release notes to marketing
Who said what
Your side and theirs recorded separately, voices told apart on your Mac, names taken from the call.
Notes in your language
A Russian call gets Russian notes. Summary, decisions and action items, the moment you hang up.
Your calendars
Google Calendar and the Mac’s own calendars. A reminder before each meeting, with Join + take notes.
Ask your meetings
“What did we decide about pricing last week?” — in the app, at your cursor, or from Claude and Cursor over MCP.
Privacy
Your voice
stays yours.
Built for people who can’t send their meetings to someone else’s server.
On your Mac
Speech recognition and AI cleanup run locally. It works on a plane, in a hospital, in a bank — with no network at all.
Your keys, your Keychain
Cloud models only if you choose them, with your own API keys, kept in the macOS Keychain and nowhere else.
No analytics. None.
No telemetry, no crash reporter, no account, no training on your words. What you say stays between you and your Mac.
Price
Free
during the beta.
Everything is unlocked while MindClerk is in beta. No account, no card, no word limit.
MindClerk beta
$0while in beta
Apple silicon · macOS 13 or later
Everything included
- Dictation in every app, on-device
- Every built-in agent and Command mode
- Your own agents, dictionary and snippets
- The Notetaker, with summaries and action items
- Calendar reminders and the meeting assistant
- History, recordings and Insights
Cloud models are optional and use your own API keys, billed by the provider. Paid plans may come later — if they do, you’ll read about it here first.
