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Download Clavio for Mac and dictate 3,000 words a month, free — no card. Upgrade to Pro any time for unlimited words. The iPhone app is coming soon.
Clavio for Mac
Lives in your menu bar. Talk into any focused field, in any app, on any display — the finished text pastes itself.
- ⌥ Space or double-tap the trackpad
- Works in every app
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- Signed & notarized by Apple — Gatekeeper verified
Apple Silicon · macOS 14.2 Sonoma+
Clavio for iPhone
A native iPhone keyboard for speaking directly into any text field.
iOS — coming soonThree permissions. Three reasons
Microphone — to hear you.
Accessibility — to paste the finished text into whichever field you’re focused on. That’s the whole job.
Input Monitoring — so hold-to-talk works while another app is in front. Clavio watches for your hotkey, nothing else — it never reads or logs your typing.
Standard macOS prompts, granted once — revoke any of them in System Settings whenever you like.
Clavio for Mac is free to download, no card. The iPhone app is coming soon.
Questions people ask
- What is Clavio?
- Clavio is an AI dictation app for Mac that turns natural speech into polished, ready-to-send text in any application. It lives in the menu bar, listens when you ask it to, and types the finished text straight into whatever field is focused.
- Is there a free AI dictation app for Mac?
- Yes — Clavio for Mac is free to download and includes 3,000 polished words every month with no credit card. Clavio Pro removes the word cap for £12/month.
- Which apps does voice typing work in?
- Every Mac app. Clavio pastes the finished text into the focused field of any application — mail, chats, browsers, editors, terminals — with per-app tone settings if you want different styles in different apps.
- How is Clavio different from built-in macOS dictation?
- Built-in dictation types your words as-is. Clavio transcribes what you say and then rewrites it into clean, ready-to-send text in your chosen tone, supports wake-word and hands-free modes, voice commands, a personal dictionary and snippets, and per-app writing styles.
- What languages does Clavio support?
- Clavio supports 28 dictation languages. Pick the ones you use during onboarding; mixed-language speech and switching languages mid-thought are supported.
- Is my voice data private?
- Your voiceprint is created and stored only on your Mac. Wake-word recognition runs on-device, and dictation audio is processed solely to produce your text.