Voilà Pro

Native 8 MB macOS dictation with five switchable speech engines, a live subtitle mode and a one-time licence.

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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