Freestyle is the dictation app that converts your voice into text. Hold down a hotkey, talk, and clean text will appear wherever your cursor is. Speak 4X faster than you type.
Freestyle is free, open source, and local first, ensuring your dictations are private and never leaves your device.
- Voice dictation — hold the hotkey, speak, release to paste at your cursor in milliseconds.
- Choose your model provider — OpenAI, Groq, Anthropic, Google, Deepgram, ElevenLabs. Bring your own API key.
- Transcription cleaning — grammer and punctuation cleanup via post-processing. No more "um, oh, but".
- Dictionary — custom phrase replacements applied after transcription. (ex.
"type script"→TypeScript). - Contextual correction — reformat your text based on where you're typing. Automatically format emails into email format.
| Platform | Download |
|---|---|
| macOS (Apple Silicon) | .dmg |
| macOS (Intel) | .dmg |
| Windows | .exe |
| Linux | .AppImage / .deb |
Contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, local development, and opening up a PR.
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