We got tired of bad dictation. Every voice tool we tried produced raw text dumps that needed so much editing, we might as well have typed it ourselves. No formatting. No punctuation. No awareness of whether we were writing an email or a Slack message.
So we built Epilude.
What Epilude Does
Epilude is a voice productivity suite for macOS. Press a key, speak naturally, release — and watch polished, formatted text appear wherever your cursor is. Any app. Any text field. No plugins, no browser extensions, no setup per app.
The key difference: Epilude doesn't just transcribe your words. It understands what you're writing and where you're writing it. An email gets professional formatting. A Slack message stays casual. A code comment gets the right syntax. You speak once, and the output is ready to send.
Dictation That Actually Works
Epilude's dictation is built on the insight that the bottleneck was never your brain — it was your fingers. You speak at 150 words per minute. You type at 40. That's a 4x gap you feel every time you sit down to write.
Here's what makes it different from everything else we tried:
- Smart formatting — Punctuation, capitalization, and grammar are handled automatically. No more "period new line" commands.
- Context-aware styles — Epilude matches the tone of the app you're in. Professional for Gmail, casual for iMessage, technical for VS Code.
- Personal dictionary — Store custom terms, acronyms, and names so Epilude always gets your vocabulary right.
- Snippet expansion — Create voice triggers for text you use often. Say "my address" and your full mailing address appears.
- 30+ languages — With auto-detection, so you can switch languages mid-thought.
It works in Slack, Notion, Gmail, VS Code, Terminal, Claude, Cursor, Google Docs — anywhere you can type on a Mac.
Privacy You Don't Have to Think About
Most voice tools send your audio to the cloud and hope for the best. We took a different approach.
Epilude offers fully local transcription using on-device models like Parakeet and WhisperKit. Your audio never leaves your Mac. For users who want cloud accuracy, we support OpenAI Whisper and Deepgram — and with Bring Your Own Key, you control the API relationship directly.
Either way, Epilude never stores your audio on our servers.
Free to Start, Pro When You're Ready
Epilude Free gives you 2,000 words per week of cloud transcription, unlimited local transcription, smart formatting, personal dictionary, and snippet expansion. No credit card required.
Epilude Pro unlocks unlimited cloud transcription, priority models, and every feature we ship going forward — for $12/month billed annually. Students get 40% off.
What's Next
Dictation is just the beginning. We're building Epilude into a complete voice productivity suite — meeting notes with speaker detection, text-to-speech with premium AI voices, and voice-powered text actions that let you select any text and transform it by speaking a command.
But today, we're focused on one thing: making dictation on Mac so good you never want to go back to typing.
Download Epilude free and see for yourself.