Dictum.

macOS 14+ / Apple Silicon — public beta coming soon

Speak it once.
Ship the document.
Nothing ever leaves your Mac.

Screen recording, transcription, and finished documents — minutes, tickets, how-to guides — produced by a local AI the moment you stop recording. No cloud, anywhere in the pipeline.

Early access invitations go out in signup order.

0 bytes sent by default
Runs entirely on Apple Silicon
Japanese ⇄ English output
Recording & transcription free, unlimited
01How it works

Stopping the recording is the last thing you do.

  1. 1⌘⇧R

    Record

    Screen, microphone, and system audio together — meetings or solo walkthroughs, with an optional round camera bubble.

  2. 2

    Stop

    That's it. Transcription and document generation start automatically; models pre-warm while you're still recording.

  3. 3

    Paste

    The finished minutes or ticket is already on your clipboard. Slack, GitHub, your case file — wherever it goes.

Privacy

Not a single byte leaves.

Recordings, audio, transcripts, and generated documents are never transmitted. The only network access in the default build is downloading the AI models themselves.

This claim has been verified at the code level.

Anonymous usage statistics are strictly opt-in (off by default) — and even when enabled, your content structurally cannot be sent.

  • Meetings under NDA
  • Conversations with patients and clients
  • Screens showing unreleased products
02Features

Built as a serious documentation tool.

01

Fully local processing

Whisper large-v3 and Qwen3 run on your Mac. A flight with no Wi-Fi is still a workday.

02

Custom templates

Seven built-ins — minutes, bug reports, how-tos and more. Write your own prompts; they fire automatically when recording stops.

03

Japanese ⇄ English

Speak in Japanese, get an English GitHub issue. Structure-preserving two-pass translation.

04

Transcribe any file

Drop an existing recording or video into the same pipeline. Exports to .srt and .txt.

05

A real recorder

Round camera bubble, pause/resume, global hotkey. No compromises on the recording experience itself.

06

Vocabulary

Register names, products, and jargon once — both transcription and generation respect them.

03Comparison

Versus cloud AI note-takers

Dictum.Cloud services
Where your data livesYour Mac onlyVendor servers
Works offlineYes, fullyNo
Pricing modelOne-time (planned)Monthly subscription
Output typesFree-form templatesMostly fixed minutes
04Who it's for

For conversations that can't go to the cloud.

Confidentiality-bound professionals

Legal, medical, HR. Document conversations that guidelines and NDAs keep off the cloud — safely.

Teams working across Japanese and English

Generate English tickets and PR descriptions straight from Japanese discussions. The recording becomes the spec.

05Pricing

One-time purchase. No subscription fatigue.

Everything free during beta

Free

¥0

  • Unlimited recording & transcription
  • 10 AI documents / month
  • All templates included

Personal

¥9,800one-time

  • Unlimited AI documents
  • One year of updates included
  • Optional renewal (¥4,800/yr)

Team

¥1,980/seat·mo

  • Everything in Personal
  • Team license management
  • Priority support (planned)

Prices are planned and will be finalized at launch (tax included).

06FAQ

Frequently asked questions

+What are the system requirements?

An Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) on macOS 14+. 16 GB of memory is recommended (8 GB works with the lightweight model preset). Intel Macs are not supported.

+Is it really zero transmission?

The default build's only external connection is downloading AI models (from Hugging Face). Anonymous statistics are opt-in, and even then your content cannot be sent — this design has been verified by code audit.

+How accurate is transcription?

Speech recognition uses Whisper large-v3 (2.55% character error rate on synthetic Japanese benchmarks). Real-world accuracy is exactly what the beta will validate — and the vocabulary feature sharpens proper nouns.

+How large is the model download?

About 6 GB for the standard preset, once. Speed / balanced / accuracy presets match your Mac's memory.

+Is recording meetings legal?

Complying with recording laws — including participant consent where required — is your responsibility. See the Terms of Service.

From recording to record.

Sign up for early access to the public beta. Invitations go out in order.