WaveOne - Voice Dictation

Speech to text, offline typing

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

Hold your shortcut, speak, release. The words appear where your cursor already was. A second shortcut dictates and translates in one go, on your Mac. Free for 14 days. WaveOne turns your voice into text without taking your hands off what you are doing. Hold your shortcut, say what you mean, let go. The words appear right where your cursor already was. Nothing to switch to, nothing to copy and paste. On device by default. Recognition runs on your Mac. On macOS 26 it uses Apple's built-in speech engine, with no model to download and nothing to configure, so your very first sentence usually just works. On earlier versions you download one compact model and keep working offline after that. Your voice is never uploaded, and there is no account to create. Built around a single gesture. • Hold to talk, or switch to tap once to start and tap again to stop • A small recording panel shows the level and the elapsed time, and never takes focus away from what you are writing • Press Esc to throw a take away: nothing is inserted, and your clipboard is left exactly as it was • When a text field will not accept the text directly, WaveOne copies it for you and says so, so a sentence is never lost Say it in one language, write it in another. A second shortcut dictates and translates in one go. Translation runs on your Mac with Apple's built-in engine, and the recording panel shows the direction the whole time, so you always know what is about to land. Cloud engines are optional, stay off until you turn them on, and ask before anything is sent. Teach it your words. Names, product terms, libraries, abbreviations: the words that keep coming out wrong are the reason people give up on dictation. WaveOne learns them in two layers, one that nudges the recognizer before it decides and one that fixes the text afterwards. Got a bad result? Open the history, select the part that came out wrong, type what it should have been, and it stops happening. Import and export as CSV, or as an encrypted backup. Polishing, only when you ask for it. Tidying up has a shortcut of its own, and that shortcut is the whole decision: use the plain one and your words go in exactly as you said them, use this one and a language model cleans up the wording first. Presets for punctuation only, email tone, and code. It runs on your Mac with Apple's on-device model, or with a service you connect yourself. There is no app-wide switch quietly rewriting everything. Built for privacy. WaveOne runs fully sandboxed and collects no analytics. Recognition is on device only, so your audio stays on your Mac. Every take goes into a local, searchable history you can favorite or clear at any time, and audio is not saved at all unless you switch it on. Keys for optional cloud services live in the Keychain, never in plain text. Make it yours. Pick your three shortcuts, your dictation language, where the recording panel appears, and how long a single take may run. WaveOne is available in 13 languages. Try every feature free for 14 days. Then a single one-time purchase unlocks WaveOne for good, with no subscription. Questions or feedback are always welcome at support@waveone.app.

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This update brings a range of refinements that make the whole app smoother. This version also updates the app's developer signature. On first launch, macOS asks once for access to each saved key; click “Always Allow” to keep them. Your keys always stay in your Mac's keychain.

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    Information

    Seller
    Lunadence LLC
    Size
    6 MB
    Category
    Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 12 more
    • English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    © 2026 Lunadence
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