01 — Quick dictationfn
Hold a key. Talk. Let go.
The text lands wherever your cursor is, already cleaned up. Works in every app that takes typing.
NewSmart dictionaries: fix misheard technical terms
Turn speech into finished writing.
Dictate anywhere on your Mac and get back polished writing, ready to send. Powered by frontier models that get names, technical terms, and accents right, and failed recordings are kept to retry so nothing gets lost.
Seven days free
Frontier models · 24-hour retry
No account · macOS 14+
The instrument
Say it once. It arrives ready to send.
Two ways to talk, and one pipeline of frontier models underneath that hears every word right and cleans it up before it lands.
02 — Frontier models
Every word, heard right.
Frontier speech models catch the names, technical terms, and accents local models miss. Prompts fall back to a second provider, and failed runs are kept 24 hours to retry.
03 — Sessions⌥D
Work out loud for hours.
Keep the mic open and paste each finished thought. Every session gets a summary and a searchable transcript.
04 — Prompts
Rough speech, folded into form.
Email, Slack, Markdown, meeting notes, an engineering brief. Ten built in, and your own in plain language.
05 — Private
Yours, and only yours.
History, prompts, and dictionaries live on your Mac. Audio is processed while you dictate and never kept.
Prompts
Speech in. The format you needed out.
Set a default per app, so Mail gets an email and your editor gets Markdown. Switch mid-sentence with ⌥ ↑ ↓.
You said
“um so can you let the team know standup is moving to ten fifteen tomorrow, same link, and uh Priya is going to demo the new onboarding flow”
Confer wrote
into Mail
Hi team, Standup is moving to 10:15 tomorrow. Same link as usual. Priya will demo the new onboarding flow. Thanks
Native macOS
Keyboard first. Every shortcut is yours to change.
Built in SwiftUI for Apple Silicon. Start from anywhere, switch prompts without looking, and paste back into the app you were already using.
Menu barfn
Lives in the menu bar.
No dock icon, no window to manage. Confer waits until you press a key.
- fn
Quick dictation
Hold to talk, release to paste. Works from any app.
- ⌥Space
Anchored dictation
Press to start, press again to finish. Pick a prompt while you talk.
- ⌥D
Start or end a dictation session
Keep the mic open and type each finished thought.
- ⌥P
Pause or resume the session
Take a call without ending what you were doing.
- ⌥⇧D
Resume your last session
Reopen your most recent session and keep adding to it.
- ⌥↑ ↓
Switch prompts
Cycle through prompts during anchored dictation or a session.
- ⌥C
Copy the latest transcription
Grab the last result and paste it anywhere.
- Always
Pastes where your cursor is
Confer finds the focused field. If there is none, it shows a review panel instead of guessing.
- Always
Ducks your audio
Music and video fade while you dictate and come back when you are done.
- Always
Updates itself
New versions download in the background. Press ⌘R when you are ready to relaunch.
Pricing
Free for 7 days. Then less than a coffee a month.
One plan, every feature. No usage caps on dictation, and no account to create.
One plan · every feature
7 days free, then
$8/month
Billed yearly at $96Best value
- Unlimited quick dictation and sessions
- 10 built-in prompts, unlimited custom ones
- Per-app defaults and dictionary replacements
- Local history, session summaries, and stats
- 57 languages
Start your free trial
Cancel anytime.
QuestionsAfter the 7-day free trial, your selected plan starts automatically unless you cancel before the trial ends. You can cancel from the billing portal at any time. Yes. Monthly is $10 per month and includes everything in the yearly plan. Yearly is $96 per year, which works out to $8 per month. No password, no sign-up form. Checkout emails you a license code, and you paste it into Confer once. Your license manages your trial, billing, and which Macs are activated. Transcriptions, sessions, prompts, dictionaries, and settings are stored on your Mac. Audio is sent to Confer only while you are dictating, processed, and not kept on our servers. Local speech models are getting better, but they still miss names, technical terms, and accents, and they make you wait while they load. Confer streams your audio to frontier speech models while you talk, so you get the accuracy of the best models with the feel of a native app. Confer works anywhere you can type or paste: email, notes, browsers, chat apps, editors, terminals, and agent tools. If there is no field to paste into, it shows a review panel so nothing is lost. Confer reconnects automatically, and prompt processing falls back to a second provider. If a dictation still fails, the recording is kept in your local history for 24 hours so you can retry it with one click. Confer is macOS only today and requires Apple Silicon. Windows and iOS are planned. Subscribe to the newsletter below for release updates.
Confer for Mac
Stop typing what you could just say.
Seven days free. No account to create. Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later.