First public release of Purr: local, on-device voice-to-text dictation for macOS on Apple Silicon. Free and MIT-licensed, with no telemetry and no cloud round-trips.
Install
- Download
Purr.dmgbelow. - Open it and drag
Purr.appto your Applications folder. - First launch: double-click Purr.app and click Open in the one-time "Purr is an app downloaded from the Internet - are you sure you want to open it?" dialog.
- Grant the three permissions when prompted: Microphone, Accessibility, and Input Monitoring.
- Hold Right Option, speak, release. Your transcript types into whichever app has focus.
Verify integrity (optional)
Download Purr.dmg.sha256 alongside the DMG, then in the same folder run:
shasum -a 256 -c Purr.dmg.sha256
It should print Purr.dmg: OK.