Local Dictation: Voice to Text
Private offline voice keyboard
Free · In‑App Purchases
Speak in any app and watch your words appear. Everything runs on your device: no account, no internet, no recordings leaving your phone.
Local Dictation turns your voice into text right on your iPhone. The speech model is built into the app, so dictation works in airplane mode and nothing you say is uploaded anywhere.
DICTATE IN ANY APP
Switch to the Local Dictation keyboard, tap Dictate, swipe back to your app and speak. Your words appear in the text field while you talk, and one final pass cleans them up when you tap Finish.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Speech recognition runs entirely on your iPhone
• No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no ads
• The app blocks its own internet access
• Recordings are deleted as soon as they are transcribed
MORE THAN 90 LANGUAGES
Tell the app where you're from and it sets your language, then try it right in the app before you start. Your language and English are always one tap away on the keyboard.
A REAL KEYBOARD
Letters, numbers, symbols, emoji, accents, word suggestions and space-bar cursor control. Transcript history and clipboard history are one tap away.
SPEAK ONE LANGUAGE, WRITE ANOTHER
With Pro, dictate in your language and get the text in another, for example speak English and write Italian. Translation runs on your device too; larger translation models are an optional one-time download from Apple in Settings › Translate to, so the app stays small.
FITS WHAT YOU'RE WRITING
Your words land with the right spaces and capitals for the text around them, and Clean up stumbles removes "uh", repeated words and restarted phrases for you.
REMEMBERS YOUR CORRECTIONS
Delete a wrongly heard word and type it your way, and Local Dictation writes it your way next time. Edit your words in Settings › Dictionary.
CLIPBOARDS FOR EACH TOPIC
Everything you copy collects in clipboard history. Keep topic clipboards for things you paste often and reach them from the keyboard. Optional iCloud sync for topic clipboards, off by default.
MIX LANGUAGES (BETA)
Switch between your languages in one dictation, even mid-sentence.
OPTIONAL APPLE INTELLIGENCE CLEAN-UP
On supported iPhones, turn on Proofread, Professional, Friendly, Concise or Standard written language. It runs on device too, and your original wording is always kept.
ALSO INCLUDED
• Searchable history you can edit, share or delete
• Start Dictation shortcut for the Action Button and Back Tap
• The keyboard types without Full Access. For Dictate, turn on Allow Full Access: it only lets the keyboard and the app talk to each other on your iPhone, and the app walks you through it.
• Split keyboard on iPad and with your iPhone sideways, for typing with both thumbs
• On iPad and Mac too: on a Mac, dictate in the app and paste anywhere.
LOCAL DICTATION PRO
Dictation needs Local Dictation Pro: monthly with the first week free, or pay once for Lifetime. Typing on the keyboard always stays free. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage them in your Apple Account settings.
Good to know: the speech models are included, so the download is about 700 MB. Some apps and password fields only allow Apple's keyboard.
Requires iOS 26 or later. Works best on iPhone 12 or newer, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPad (10th generation or later), iPad Air (4th generation or later), iPad mini (6th generation or later), iPad Pro (M1 or later), and Macs with Apple silicon. On a Mac, dictate in the app and paste anywhere.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://sebstech24.github.io/local-dictation/privacy.html
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• Translate as you dictate, on your device (Pro). Larger translation models are an optional one-time download from Apple.
• Your words fit what you're writing, and Clean up stumbles removes "uh" and restarted phrases.
• Remembers your corrections. Edit your words in Settings › Dictionary.
• Clipboards for each topic, right on the keyboard, with optional iCloud sync (off by default).
• Mix languages (beta, off by default): switch languages within one dictation.
• The app itself is now in 30 languages.
• Fixes and improvements.
The developer, Sebastian Skoic, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Sebastian Skoic
- Size
- Up to 743.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 25 more
- English, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Pro, lifetime $41.99
- Pro, monthly $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Sebastian Skoic