Loqui · Local dictation for macOS
Speak.
We'll write.
Hold a key, say what you mean, let go. Loqui transcribes entirely on your Mac and drops clean, corrected text into whatever app you're using. No account. No cloud. No waiting.
What it does
Dictation that keeps up with how you actually talk.
Loqui is built around one gesture: hold, speak, release. Everything else, from filler words to your own vocabulary, is handled before the text lands on the page.
Hotkey dictation
Hold fn and talk; release to transcribe and paste. Tap once to lock hands-free mode, tap again to finish. Prefer Right ⌘ or ⌥ Space? Switch in the menu bar.
Live overlay
A floating pill shows your mic level and the transcript as you speak, so you always know Loqui is listening and what it heard.
Personal dictionary
Teach Loqui the words it gets wrong. get hub becomes GitHub, jason becomes JSON, and names keep the exact casing you choose. Edit visually or in a plain text file.
Clean by default
"Um", "uh", and "hmm" disappear. Stutters collapse ("I I think" becomes "I think"). Sentence capitalization is repaired automatically.
Seven days of history
Every dictation is kept locally for a week. Search it, re-copy with one click, delete individual items, or turn the feature off entirely.
Auto-paste and auto-mute
Finished text is pasted into the frontmost app and your previous clipboard is restored. System audio mutes while the mic is live so music never bleeds in.
Privacy by architecture
Nothing leaves your Mac. Not even the audio.
Most dictation tools stream your voice to a server. Loqui runs Apple's on-device SpeechAnalyzer engine, so the only network activity is a one-time, system-managed download of the speech model.
Hold and speak
Press the hotkey. The overlay appears, system audio mutes, and the mic starts listening.
Transcribe on-device
Apple's speech engine turns audio into text locally. Your dictionary and filler-word rules are applied instantly.
Release and paste
Clean text lands in the app you're using. Your clipboard is restored a second later.
Your words, your rules
A dictionary you can read.
The dictionary is a plain text file you own. Three rule types cover almost everything: replace a heard phrase, remove a phrase, or force exact casing. Rules apply longest-phrase-first and take effect immediately.
# heard phrase => replacement jason => JSON get hub => GitHub sort of => # bare word: force this casing Propela
Install
Two minutes, start to finish.
Loqui is signed and notarized with Apple, so it opens like any other Mac app.
Download and drag
Open Loqui-1.0.dmg and drag Loqui into the Applications folder shortcut.
Grant Microphone
Approve the microphone prompt on your first dictation.
Grant Accessibility
Needed for the global hotkey and for pasting. Privacy & Security → Accessibility → enable Loqui.
Stop typing. Start talking.
Install Loqui, hold the fn key, and say what you mean. Your words appear where your cursor is, cleaned up and spelled the way you want, without ever leaving your Mac.