Press a hotkey, speak naturally, and get text right where your cursor is. Built for writing emails, notes, code comments, and transcribing files completely offline.
Runs locally on Apple Silicon. 3-day free trial. One-time license fee.
Launch promo: $19.99 $24.99. 14-day money-back guarantee.
Tinta is a lightweight native macOS utility that turns your speech into text without the overhead, lag, or recurring fees of cloud voice services.
All transcription happens locally on your Mac's CPU and Neural Engine. Your voice data and text transcripts never leave your device.
Buy once, own forever. No monthly billing, no usage quotas, and no subscription fatigue. Lifetime updates are included.
Press your hotkey and dictate straight to your cursor inside Slack, Xcode, Mail, Safari, or terminal fields. No copy-paste needed.
Rather than opening a separate browser tab or transcription app, Tinta is a system utility that works natively where you write. The same floating pill you see above walks through three states — here they are side by side.
Press and hold ⇧Right Shift — Tinta starts listening locally.
Talk as you would to a colleague. Whisper runs on Apple Silicon while you speak.
Let go — the text appears exactly at your active cursor, no copy-paste needed.
Drag and drop audio or video files into the Tinta transcription box to generate searchable markdown transcripts with precise speaker timestamps offline. The widget below is the actual drop zone from the app — drop a file or watch the demo cycle.
…or wait — the demo will run in a moment.
Drop Zoom, Meet, or Teams audio recordings to get full meeting minutes, transcripts, and action logs locally.
Turn hours of educational lectures or seminar recordings into structured, searchable markdown summaries.
Extract speech and dialogue text from downloaded video recordings or audio tracks without third-party services.
$19.99 $24.99
Launch promo price for 2 weeks. One-time license fee.
Yes. The trial is fully featured for 3 days, requires no account, and doesn't ask for a credit card.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later and an Apple Silicon Mac (M1, M2, M3, M4, or newer) are required for local machine learning acceleration.
You need internet access during initial setup to download the local speech model. Once downloaded, all speech-to-text processing runs locally and works completely offline.
Tinta is designed from the ground up for absolute confidentiality. Every byte of your voice audio and text transcripts is processed 100% locally on your Mac's Neural Engine and CPU. Tinta does not use any cloud transcription servers, sends zero dictation data to external APIs, and contains no tracking or telemetry of what you say. It works completely offline, making it fully safe for sensitive corporate data, legal work, medical notes, and proprietary code.
Tinta Voice uses optimized Whisper speech recognition running on Apple Silicon. It matches 80%+ of massive cloud API accuracy offline without server latency.
Yes, Tinta Voice supports system-wide dictation and file transcription in multiple languages using optimized local multilingual models.
No. Tinta Voice is a precise transcription tool. It places your exact words directly at the cursor, allowing you to edit and format the text yourself.
No — Tinta never silently drops your text. When the active focus isn't an editable field (or auto-paste is blocked by an app), a small floating card slides in with your transcription, a Copy button, and a 15-second countdown ring. Click Copy and paste with ⌘V wherever you want. If you do nothing, the card simply fades — no clipboard pollution, no data leaving your Mac.
If Tinta Voice doesn't work for you, request a refund within 14 days through the refund link in your Lemon Squeezy receipt — no questions asked. All payments and refunds are processed by Lemon Squeezy, our Merchant of Record. For setup or technical questions, email [email protected].
Test Tinta Voice with your real writing work. See if capturing drafts through speech fits your routine.