Voilà Pro
Native 8 MB macOS dictation with five switchable speech engines, a live subtitle mode and a one-time licence.
Voilà is a native Swift menu bar dictation app for Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 14 or later, about 8 MB with no Electron and no bundled models. Hold a hotkey, speak, and streaming recognition puts text on screen as you talk; release and it is pasted at the cursor, with an optional delayed-paste window for fixing words or adding them to the vocabulary list first. Five engines are switchable: Soniox, ElevenLabs, Volcengine, Groq and Apple Speech, which runs on device and works offline. Terminal and IDE pasting goes through the Accessibility API so text is not lost while a terminal is rendering. A subtitle mode transcribes without pasting, for films, lectures and podcasts. Optional AI polish sends the transcript to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint before pasting. The 30-day trial covers everything; afterwards Apple Speech stays free.
Pros
- One-time licence at EUR 9.99-19.99 with free updates; no subscription and no account
- Five switchable engines including on-device Apple Speech for offline use, with bring-your-own keys
- Delayed-paste editing, custom term correction and Accessibility-based pasting that survives busy terminals
Cons
- Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 14+ only; Intel Macs are not supported
- Cloud engines and AI polish need your own API keys and are billed by the provider
- Documentation is a single page and changelog; no dictation history or voice commands are documented
- Platforms
- macOS
- Speech processing
- Hybrid
- Works offline
- Yes
- Languages
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- One-time purchase
- Free tier
- 30-day full trial, then Apple Speech free forever
| Early Bird License (lifetime) | €9.99 once |
| Pro License (lifetime) | €19.99 once |
Features
- Yes Works in any app
- Yes Real-time transcription
- Yes Auto punctuation
- Yes AI cleanup
- Yes Custom vocabulary
- No Voice commands
- Yes Push to talk
- Yes Auto language detection
- No Translation
- No File transcription
- No Meeting notes
- No Multilingual interface
- No History
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Last verified 2026-09-22