EcoScribe is a voice-to-text engine that lives in your menu bar. Hold a key, say what you mean, and watch words appear — anywhere on your Mac, with surgeon-grade accuracy and on-device privacy.
A focused tool, not a kitchen sink. Six things, done exceptionally — no plugins, no model picker, no cloud round-trip.
Cursor in Mail, Slack, Linear, Xcode, Terminal — doesn't matter. Hold the key, speak, release. Words land where your caret is.
Whisper-grade models run natively on Apple Silicon. No upload, no transcripts in someone else's logs. Works offline at 30,000 ft.
Words appear faster than you'd typed them.
Optional cleanup turns a ramble into a draft.
Switch mid-sentence. We catch it.
Drop a list of teammates, products, code identifiers — EcoScribe learns to spell them right the first time. No more "Curt" instead of "Kubernetes."
Pick a mode per shortcut.
Designed for keyboard-first developers, writers, and operators. Customize every binding, including the recording finger.
A small red dot appears in your menu bar. You can start speaking before it finishes blinking.
EcoScribe captures 48kHz audio on-device. Pauses, breaths, "um" — handled.
The transcription is in your text field. No popups, no copy-paste, no review modal.
EcoScribe keeps a local-only history of everything you dictated. Search "the part about Q3", drag a take into another app, or export the transcript as Markdown.
Pay for the app, not the API behind it. Free forever for casual users; Pro unlocks the modes and the library.
No. Models run on-device using Apple's Neural Engine. The only thing that hits our servers is your license check (once a day) and crash reports — opt-in.
Any Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. Intel Macs are not supported — the on-device models need the Neural Engine.
Faster (sub-20ms vs ~1s), more accurate on technical vocabulary, and it works in every text field — including Terminal, Xcode, and SSH sessions.
Yes. Pro is monthly or yearly, no contract. If you cancel, your Library stays on disk forever — we don't lock data behind a subscription.
Not yet. A Windows beta is planned for Q4 2026. Sign up on the changelog page to be notified.
Free Pro license for verified students, and lifetime Pro for committed open-source maintainers. Email hello@ecoscribe.app.