Drift v0.2.0-rc.1

Local-first voice dictation for macOS. Hold Right Option (⌥), speak, and cleaned-up text is typed into whatever app you're in. Transcription and cleanup run entirely on your Mac — no account, no API key, nothing uploaded.

Install

1. Download Drift.dmg below and open it.
2. Drag Drift into your Applications folder.
3. First launch (one-time): this build isn't notarized by Apple, so macOS Gatekeeper blocks it the first time. Right-click (Control-click) Drift.app → Open, then click Open in the dialog.
   • Or from Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Drift.app
4. Grant Microphone and Accessibility when asked.
5. Click into any text field, hold Right Option (⌥), speak, and release.

What's included

• Bundled FluidAudio Parakeet v3 English model — dictation works instantly on first run, no extra download.
• Universal binary — Apple Silicon and Intel.

Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. This build is ad-hoc signed (not notarized) — Drift is fully open source, so you can also build it yourself from source.

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What's Changed

• CI: build & publish Drift.dmg automatically on v* tags by @Vinayak-Nair in #3
• CI: add prerelease (non-latest) option to release workflow by @Vinayak-Nair in #4
• CI: retry DMG creation on transient hdiutil 'Resource busy' by @Vinayak-Nair in #5

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0-rc.1

Drift v0.1.0

Drift v0.1.0 — local-first voice dictation for macOS. Hold Right Option (⌥), speak, and cleaned-up text is typed into whatever app you're in. Transcription and cleanup run entirely on your Mac — no account, no API key, nothing uploaded.

Install

1. Download Drift.dmg below and open it.
2. Drag Drift into your Applications folder.
3. First launch (one-time): this build isn't notarized by Apple, so macOS Gatekeeper will block it the first time. Right-click (Control-click) Drift.app → Open, then click Open in the dialog.
   • Or from Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Drift.app
4. Grant Microphone and Accessibility when asked.
5. Click into any text field, hold Right Option (⌥), speak, and release.

What's included

• Bundled FluidAudio Parakeet v3 English model — dictation works instantly on first run, no extra download.
• Universal binary — Apple Silicon and Intel.

Requirements

• macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.

Notes

• This release is ad-hoc signed, not notarized (no Apple Developer ID), which is why the one-time Gatekeeper step above is needed. Drift is fully open source — you can build it yourself from source if you prefer.
• Multilingual (WhisperKit) models download on demand from Settings for Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and more.