Clavio is an AI dictation app for macOS. You hold a key (or go fully hands-free), speak the way you’d actually talk — filler words and all — and Clavio types back clean, correctly-toned, ready-to-send text into whatever app is focused. It doesn’t just transcribe; it rewrites what you said into what you meant to write.
How it works
Two steps. First, speech recognition turns your voice into words. Second — the part plain dictation never had — a language model rewrites that raw transcript into the register you chose: casual for a chat, email-grade for your inbox, different per app. Filler words and false starts disappear, punctuation and capitalisation come free, and the finished text lands straight in the field your cursor is in. Push-to-talk, wake-word, and fully hands-free modes are keyed to a voiceprint that is created and stored only on your Mac, so it answers to your voice and not to the room. A fuller explanation lives in what AI dictation is and what to look for.
The facts
- Category
- AI dictation / voice-to-text app for Mac.
- Platform
- macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, on Apple Silicon.
- Price
- Free: 3,000 polished words per month, no card required. Pro: unlimited, billed monthly. See download for current pricing in your region.
- Privacy
- The voiceprint is created and stored on-device; wake-word listening runs on the Mac; audio is used only to produce your text. More in is Mac dictation private.
- Languages
- Dictation across a wide range of languages, including mixed-language speech.
Who it’s for
Anyone who thinks faster than they type: people who write all day in mail and chat, developers who’d rather talk than type a commit message, writers drafting by voice, and anyone for whom typing is slow or uncomfortable. If you’ve tried the built-in Mac dictation and wanted it to actually finish the writing — not just transcribe, and not stop after 30 seconds — that gap is exactly what Clavio fills.
Try it
Download Clavio for Mac. Installation and onboarding take about five minutes, including training your voice, and the free tier needs no card. If you’re replacing the built-in feature, see how to replace Apple’s dictation.