HushtypePolished by Claude
Ums and ahs disappear, punctuation shows up, and “five, no, six” becomes “6”. Short clean phrases skip Claude entirely.
v0.3.3 Free, open source and native to macOS
Say it like you mean it,
Say it like you mean it,
read it like you wrote it. ⌥
Hold a key and talk. Let go, and Hushtype types clean, punctuated text into whatever app you were already in. No fillers, no fixing, no window to switch to.
brew install --cask chiranjeebhub/tap/hushtype- Signed and notarized by Apple
- Your voice is transcribed on your Mac
- macOS 26 Tahoe or later
Acme
# launch
# design
# general
Maya
Arjun
# launch
M
Maya 9:41 AM
Are we still on for the demo tomorrow?
A
Arjun 9:42 AM
5 works for me, but I might run late 🙏
Re: Contract for review
To: Priya Raman
Subject: Re: Contract for review
Launch plan
🚀
Launch plan
- Final copy review
- Press kit to partners
- App Store screenshots
Risks
To: Mom
Are you coming for dinner on Sunday?
Probably!
Let me know what time 😊
Click any window or Dock icon to switch apps. Hold ⌥ on your keyboard or the button, then let go. Pressing another key while holding cancels, just like the app.
Features
Talk at the speed you think.
Built in Swift and SwiftUI, so it feels like part of macOS. It lives in the menu bar and stays out of your way until you hold the key.
Knows where you are
Casual in Slack, careful in Mail, literal in your editor. It continues your sentence and spells names that are already on screen.
Command mode
Select text, hold ⌃⌥ and say “make this shorter” or “translate to Hindi”. With nothing selected, it writes what you ask for.
Learns your words
A personal dictionary for names and jargon. Fix a spelling right after dictating and Hushtype remembers it next time.
Snippets and history
Say “my calendar link” and the full text is typed. Every dictation is searchable on your Mac, and ⌃⌘V pastes the last one again.
iCloud sync, if you want it
Your dictionary, snippets and preferences follow you to your other Macs. Signed releases keep themselves up to date.
Dictatehold ⌥
Hands-freedouble-tap ⌥
Command modehold ⌃⌥
Paste last dictation⌃⌘V
See it on a Mac
The real thing.
Settings opens on Home: today's dictations, typical wait for text, and your recent history.
Setup
Ready in about a minute.
A short guided setup does the fiddly parts for you, and each step ticks itself off as soon as it’s done.
- Microphone and AccessibilityHushtype notices each grant by itself and restarts when macOS needs it to.
- Voice modelDownloads Apple’s on-device model for your language, so dictation works offline.
- Connect ClaudePaste your Anthropic API key. It’s checked as you paste and kept in your Keychain.
- Try itA practice field for your first dictation before you use it for real.
Privacy
Your voice never leaves your Mac.
Speech recognition runs on-device with Apple’s SpeechAnalyzer. Only the transcript goes to Claude for polish, with your own key, and you can turn that off.
ON DEVICEMicrophone audionever uploaded
ON DEVICESpeech to textworks offline
YOUR KEYText cleanupClaude Haiku
ON DEVICEHistorystays on this Mac
- Audio stays localYour recordings are transcribed on your Mac and thrown away. Nothing is uploaded, ever.
- Never reads password fieldsContext from around your cursor helps with tone and names, but secure text fields are always skipped.
- Your key, your accountPolish uses your own Anthropic API key, stored in the Keychain. There’s no Hushtype server in between.
- No accounts, analytics or adsNo sign-in, no tracking, and the code is open for anyone to check.
Download
Get Hushtype your way.
● Available now
Homebrew
One line in Terminal.
brew install --cask chiranjeebhub/tap/hushtype
Open source
Build it yourself
Clone the repo and run scripts/build-app.sh with Xcode 26.
Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later and an Anthropic API key for polish. On first launch Hushtype asks for Microphone and Accessibility access, which macOS requires before an app can hear you and type for you.
Open source
Made by one developer. Kept alive by you.
Hushtype is MIT-licensed and built in the open. If it saves you some typing, a star helps other people find it, and a sponsorship or a coffee keeps new features coming.
Is Hushtype really free?
Yes. The app is free and MIT licensed. Polish uses your own Anthropic API key, and Claude Haiku costs a fraction of a cent per dictation. Short phrases with nothing to fix skip Claude entirely.
Why does it need Accessibility access?
macOS only lets an app notice a held key system-wide and type into other apps once you allow Accessibility. Hushtype also reads the text around your cursor for context, and never from password fields.
Does it work offline?
Speech recognition does, once the voice model for your language has downloaded. Without a connection, or if Claude is slow to answer, you get the raw transcript within two seconds.
Can I change the dictation key?
Yes. Right Option is the default, and you can switch to Right Command or Fn/🌐 in Settings. Pressing any other key while holding it cancels, so your shortcuts keep working.
How is it different from Wispr Flow?
Hushtype is a native Swift app, transcribes on your Mac instead of uploading your audio, is open source, and has no subscription.