ParPar types in any app, learns the words you fix, and gives your spoken work a place to live — all on your Mac, with no account and no cloud dictation.
Free during the beta · macOS 26+ · Apple Silicon (M3 or newer)
Support for M1 and M2 is in testing. No cloud, no account.
Fast voice input is the starting point. ParPar gets better, more useful, and more familiar as you use it.
The floating pill responds to your real microphone, tells you when it cannot hear you, and never steals focus from the app you are working in.
Press ⌥⌘ Space after a dictation, correct what ParPar got wrong, and choose whether it should remember.
Turn on History and every dictation becomes a searchable local corpus you can copy, revisit, or clear.
We should launch the ParPar beta after the onboarding pass…
Words, WPM, time saved, streaks, a one-year activity map, and the words ParPar learned for you. The counters still work when transcript history is off.
Send ParPar up to the top of the screen. The parrot sits just beside the MacBook notch, mimics your voice while you dictate, and drops a panel of what you just said when you click it — where any line can be copied with a click.
Switch it on and ParPar keeps an eye on your Claude Code and Codex sessions while you dictate — in a terminal, or running inside Ship Studio. One walks by the notch while it works and turns green the moment it finishes, so you know it is done without tabbing away. Click to see them all, grouped by your prompt, each labelled with where it is running.
Use Fn, Right Command, or Right Option anywhere on your Mac.
ParPar listens through the mic you choose and shows the real audio level.
It cleans the text, applies your dictionary, and puts it at the cursor. If an app blocks insertion, your words stay on the clipboard.
ParPar is not trying to have the longest feature list. It is trying to be the private Mac dictation app you actually enjoy keeping around.
Great when you want free, familiar, or deliberately simple voice-to-text.
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Choose them when you want maximum configuration.A focused Mac companion that brings local dictation, learned words, opt-in memory, progress, and personality into one approachable app.
Choose ParPar when the way the tool feels matters as much as what it types.Join the beta and help shape the Mac dictation app that remembers what matters to you.