About Dictly
Dictly turns your voice into clean, structured text entirely on-device — no cloud, no telemetry, no internet required. It features sub-100ms first-word latency, a Quick Capture overlay accessible via global hotkey, custom Workflows to format speech for different apps, per-app profiles, and a full transcription history. Works in airplane mode.
Dictly supports multiple insertion modes, custom dictionaries for names and jargon, local analytics, and multi-language dictation. Pro is a one-time purchase of $29.99 — no subscriptions. Available on macOS, iOS, and iPadOS as a Swift-native universal binary.
Capabilities & Features
Not Available
Ideal Use Cases
Pricing
Free Core — offline dictation with 1 workflow, 1 dictionary (25 entries), 10-item history
Pro $29.99 one-time — unlimited workflows, dictionaries, profiles, and export
Pros & Cons
100% on-device processing — zero cloud
zero telemetry
zero background network usage
Sub-100ms first-word latency with continuous real-time streaming
One-time Pro purchase of $29.99 — no recurring subscription
Custom Workflows format speech differently per app automatically
Works fully offline including in airplane mode
macOS and iOS only — no Windows or Android support
No team features
shared dictionaries
or compliance certifications like HIPAA or SOC 2
Free tier limited to 1 workflow
1 dictionary
and 10 history items
App Store rating of 3.0/5 — some users report crashes with the share function
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