LocalBolo

LocalBolo: Private dictation for Mac Skip to content How it works Features Pricing Changelog Buy for $49 Version 0.3.0 is out for Mac What's new ↗ T a l k , a n d i t t y p e s . N o t h i n g l e a v e s y o u r M a c . Hold fn , speak, and let go. LocalBolo turns your voice into clean text in any app, with speech models that run entirely on your Mac. Buy for $49 See how it works One-time purchase · macOS 15 or later · Apple Silicon Mon 9:41 Mail To Priya Sharma Subject Moving our call “ Hi Priya, can we move our call to 3 p.m., sorry, 4 p.m. tomorrow? ” fn Works wherever you can type Gmail iMessage WhatsApp Discord Notion Google Docs Obsidian Linear Claude Cursor Xcode Google Chrome …and every other app with a text field. Speed Speak over three times faster than you type. Most people type about 40 words a minute and speak about 150. With LocalBolo you write at the speed you talk, in every app, without sending a word to the cloud. Words per minute Typical rates 001 Typing 40 wpm Speaking 150 wpm How it works Three steps. No typing. Dictation that feels like a keyboard shortcut, not an app you have to open. Hold fn 001 fn Press and hold the fn key wherever your cursor is. The pill appears with the icon of the app your words will land in. Speak naturally 002 Talk the way you would to a colleague. The waveform shows LocalBolo is listening, and it only listens while you hold the key. Let go 003 Sounds good, see you at three. Release fn. Your speech is transcribed on your Mac and pasted right at your cursor, usually in about a second. Cleanup Say it messy. Get it clean. Turn on cleanup and a small language model on your Mac applies your self-corrections and drops the ums and uhs. If an edit would change what you meant, your words are kept as spoken. Optional · Qwen 2.5 1.5B · 880 MB · On-device 001 You said Let's meet today at 9 p.m., sorry, 10 p.m. It typed Let's meet today at 10 p.m. 002 You said So, um, I think we should , uh, ship it on Friday. It typed I think we should ship it on Friday. 003 You said Send the deck to Priya, no wait, to Sam. It typed Send the deck to Sam. What's inside Built to disappear into your day. 001 On-device, always Speech models run on the Neural Engine in your Mac. There is no server to send audio to. 002 Works in every app Mail, Slack, your code editor, a browser tab. Anywhere there's a cursor, your words land there. 003 Knows where it's typing The pill shows the icon of the app that will receive y