100% Local · macOS

Your voice, your machine.

Murmur turns speech into polished text entirely on your Mac. No cloud. No accounts. Just press Fn and talk.

Download for macOS

Requires macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon or Intel · Free while in beta

The Murmur Flow Bar
Idle
Recording
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Done

Three steps. Zero friction.

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Step 1

Press Fn

Hold your keyboard's Fn key — Murmur activates instantly, wherever you are.

Step 2

Speak naturally

Talk at your normal pace. Murmur listens using Whisper running locally on your Mac.

Step 3

Text appears

Clean, polished text is typed into the active field. Any app, any text field.

Everything runs on your Mac.

Completely local AI

Whisper for transcription, Ollama for cleanup. Your audio and text never leave your machine — ever.

Works everywhere

Dictate into any text field in any application — Slack, Notes, your browser, your IDE. If you can type there, Murmur works.

Smart cleanup

Your LLM polishes raw speech — removes filler words, fixes grammar, and formats neatly. What you meant, not what you mumbled.

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One-key shortcut

Hold Fn and talk. Release to finish. No menu bar clicking, no app switching — stays out of your way until you need it.

Multiple modes

Choose how your text comes out — polished prose, formal tone, short and punchy, or distilled key points.

Fast & lightweight

The flow bar floats quietly on your desktop. Sub-second launch, minimal memory usage, zero background noise.

Your voice stays on your machine.

Murmur processes everything locally using open-source models. No audio is recorded. No text is uploaded. No account is needed. We can't see your data because it never reaches us.

No cloud processing
No account required
No data collection
Open-source models

Ready to dictate?

Download Murmur and start talking to your Mac — privately.

Download for macOS

Free while in beta · macOS 13+