Open source, no account, no word limit

Speak freely. Lipik writes it down. Free dictation app for Mac

Hold fn and talk the way you talk. Clean, punctuated text appears wherever your cursor is, in any app and in your language.

Download for Mac See how it works
curl -fsSL https://lipik.pages.dev/install.sh | sh

Or paste this into Terminal and press Return: it installs Lipik with no security warning to click through. Free and open source, for Macs with Apple silicon.

Hold fn, speak, let go. The pill at the bottom shows Lipik is listening.

Works in every app where you can type

  • Slack
  • Gmail
  • Notes
  • Notion
  • VS Code
  • Cursor
  • ChatGPT
  • WhatsApp
  • Linear
  • Mail
  • Google Docs
  • Figma
  • Messages
  • Obsidian

Say it messy. Get it clean.

Lipik drops the ums, follows you when you change your mind, and writes numbers, times and email addresses the way you'd type them. It doesn't add words you didn't say.

You say

Lipik types

  • Filler, dropped
  • Changed your mind
  • Written as a number or symbol

Small touches that save a lot of typing.

Everything below runs on your Mac. The cards are live, so try them.

The right tone for each app

Choose formal, relaxed or lowercase for each kind of app. Email stays proper while chat stays casual.

You sayhey are we still good for friday i can bring the slides

Hey, are we still good for Friday? I can bring the slides.

Speaks your language

English out of the box. Free Whisper models cover 99 languages. Hinglish works too, in beta.

Your words, spelled right

Add names and terms once. They come out right every time.

  • Rivaan
  • Quavia
  • Kubernetes
  • Thiruvananthapuram

Ask Rivaan to move the Quavia sync to Thursday.

Hands-free

Press fn and Space to keep talking without holding a key.

Snippets

Say a short cue and get the full text you saved.

14 Orchard Lane, Flat 3B
Pune 411001

Meeting notes

Record a call. Get the transcript and a short summary, made on your Mac. The other side is split into speakers you can name.

Weekly sync

  • Launch moves to Friday, 5 PM.
  • Meera owns the release notes.
  • Arjun sends the final deck by Thursday.

Works with Wi-Fi off

Speech to text and the clean-up both run on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded.

Wi-Fi
Online

Notes from the train: the venue is booked for the 14th.

Ask your AI about your meetings

Claude, Cursor, Codex and other AI apps can read your meeting notes on your Mac. Connect them in one click during setup.

Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, VS Code and Gemini CLI. ChatGPT gets a copy of the note instead.

You What did we decide in the weekly sync?

Read “Weekly sync” from Lipik

Launch moves to Friday, 5 PM. Meera owns the release notes, and Arjun sends the final deck by Thursday.

Three steps, every time.

  1. 1

    Hold fn

    Put your cursor where the words should go: a message, an email, a doc, a prompt. Then hold the fn key.

  2. 2

    Speak

    Talk the way you would to a friend. Pause, ramble, correct yourself. The pill at the bottom of your screen shows Lipik is listening.

  3. 3

    Let go

    The clean text is typed where your cursor is. If no text box is selected, it shows in a small card so you can copy it.

Free, open source, and yours to keep.

Lipik costs nothing. There's no account, no subscription and no word limit. The code is under the MIT licence, so anyone can read it, change it or build on it.

Price
Free
Licence
MIT
Speech to text
Parakeet by default, on your Mac
Clean-up
Qwen3 8B or 4B, built in, on your Mac
Account
None needed
Code
github.com/Gourav2609/lipik

Questions

What do I need to run Lipik?

A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later). Clean-up is built in, with no extra app. During setup, one button downloads the clean-up model from Hugging Face: Qwen3 8B (5 GB) on Macs with 16 GB of memory or more, or Qwen3 4B Instruct (2.5 GB) on smaller Macs. Built-in clean-up needs macOS 13.3 or later. On older versions, you can use the free Ollama app for clean-up. Without a clean-up model, Lipik still types what you said, and its built-in rules fix "um", spoken punctuation, numbers, times and emails.

Does it cost anything?

No. Lipik is free, with no subscription, no account and no word limit.

Is there a Windows version?

Not yet. Lipik runs on macOS only for now.

Which languages does it understand?

English works out of the box with the Parakeet model. For other languages, download one of the free Whisper models in Settings; together they cover 99 languages. Hinglish (Hindi and English mixed, written in Roman letters) works in dictation, in beta on macOS 26 or later, and in meeting notes, where Lipik notices it by itself.

Why does macOS ask for Microphone and Accessibility access?

Microphone, so Lipik can hear you. Accessibility, so it can notice when you hold fn and type the text into the app you're using. What Lipik hears stays on your Mac.

Can I use a different key instead of fn?

Yes. You can pick any shortcut in Settings. Holding fn is the default because it rarely gets in the way of anything else.

Get Lipik for Mac.

Free, for Macs with Apple silicon. Open the download, drag Lipik into Applications, and hold fn to start.

Download Lipik.dmgView the code on GitHub
curl -fsSL https://lipik.pages.dev/install.sh | sh

Or install from Terminal with the line above, which skips the security warning. Version 0.1.9, 23 MB. The first time you open it, macOS asks you to confirm: go to System Settings, then Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway. Install help