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Dictation that never touches the internet.

Hold a key, talk, and clean text lands wherever your cursor is. Every word is heard, transcribed, and polished on your own Mac.

Requires macOS 26 Tahoe on Apple silicon · Notarized · MIT licensed

October 12, 2026 at 9:38 AM

Plynn 0.2 launch

Target date is Thursday. Keep the announcement short and lead with the privacy angle.

To:Jordan
Today 9:32 AM
Leaving now
Are you close? Talk starts in 10
iMessage
How it works

Hold the key. Talk. Release. There is no app to switch to and nothing to click. Plynn works in every text field on your Mac.

fn
⌃control
⌥option
⌘command
01

Hold fn

Or Right Option, Right Command, or Right Control. Double-tap to go hands-free.

02

Talk like you normally would

Your words stream into a floating glass capsule as you speak. Ums and restarts are fine.

Slack — #launch
PR
Priya 9:40
Can someone post the release notes?
Message #launch
03

Release, and it’s there

Clean text pastes at your cursor, usually in well under a second on an M-series Mac.

Polish, on device

Say it once, get it clean. Fillers are cut, self-corrections are applied, spoken lists become real lists, and the tone matches the app you’re writing in.

Re: Timeline
To: Priya Raman
Subject: Re: Timeline

Hi Priya,

I wanted to reach out and let you know that we have been making a lot of progress on the project and we think that we should be able to have everything wrapped up and delivered at some point before the end of next week.

Best,
Maya

Command mode

Select text anywhere, hold the key, and say what to do with it. “Make this shorter” rewrites the selection in place.

YOU SAID
um so I think we can ship friday actually monday and uh let jordan know
Messages · casual
we can ship monday, let jordan know
Mail · proper
I think we can ship on Monday. Please let Jordan know.

Matches the app you’re in

Casual in Messages, proper in Mail. The self-correction is applied either way.

Plynn
Home
Dictionary
Snippets
Settings
Priya RamanName
FluidAudioImported from CSV
ParakeetImported from CSV
GhosttyAdded by you

A dictionary that learns you

Add names and jargon, or import a CSV. Fix a word right after a paste and Plynn learns the correction on its own.

Design sync — Oct 12.md
Design sync
32 min · 3 speakers · transcribed on this Mac
Summary

The team agreed to ship onboarding with the new permission flow and move the model download to the background.

Action items
☐ Maya: final copy for the mic permission step
☐ Priya: export new menu bar icons at 1x and 2x
☐ Jordan: test on an 8 GB MacBook Air
Recording meeting 32:07

Meeting notes, on device

Triple-tap to record a call. The transcript and a written summary land as Markdown, produced locally.

Safari — Sign up
Email address

Snippets

Say “my email” and your actual address comes out. Any phrase can expand into any text.

Sign in to your bank
maya@hey.com
••••••••
Secure field — dictation paused

Never types into a password

Secure fields are detected and dictation pauses itself until you’re somewhere safe.

Native Mac app

Built in Swift, for your Mac. A menu bar item that behaves, and a window with your stats and every dictation, kept in a local file you can open yourself.

Plynn
Home
Dictionary
Snippets
Settings
142Words/min
386Dictations
18,204Words
129 minTime spoken
On my way, save me a seatMessages · just now
For the launch we need: 1. The changelog 2. The press kit…Notes · 2 min ago
Thanks for the intro, following up with times below.Mail · 12 min ago
git rebase the feature branch onto mainGhostty · 1 hr ago
Privacy

Your voice stays on your Mac. Speech recognition, cleanup, your dictionary, and your history all run on your own silicon. No account, no telemetry, no transcript upload.

your Mac
MicrophoneAudio stays in memory
ParakeetStreams on the Neural Engine
Rules passSpoken punctuation, instantly
PolishApple Intelligence or local Qwen
Your cursorPasted where you’re typing
0 bytesof dictation sent anywhere
0accounts to create
1 fileSQLite history you can open yourself
MITRead every line before you trust it

Instant when it can be

Clean short dictations skip the model entirely and paste immediately. Polish only runs when there’s something to fix.

Spoken formatting

Say “new line”, “comma”, or “press enter” to auto-send. Spoken lists come out as real lists.

Your keyboard, your key

fn, Right Option, Right Command, or Right Control. Switching takes effect immediately.

Works on calls

On a FaceTime or Zoom call, Plynn shares the microphone and keeps working through device changes.

Ready from the first minute

Speech models (about 1 GB) download in the background while Apple’s built-in engine covers your first dictations.

Updates itself

Notarized by Apple and kept current with automatic updates. Built in the open on GitHub.

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Talk to your Mac. Keep it on your Mac.

Free forever · macOS 26 Tahoe · Apple silicon