Holos

Spєak nåturally,ín anу łangüage.

Dictation for people who do not think in one language. Hold a key, talk, and the words arrive where the cursor is — switching mid-paragraph, without a setting.

Download for macOS 14 days free · no account · no card

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Sentence by sentence

Other dictation software picks a language when you start and holds it to the end. Say one sentence in another and it renders that sentence in the first — or translates it without telling you.

Holos identifies each sentence on its own, because a pause is where a bilingual actually changes language.

I'll send the draft tonight.

Pero primero hay que revisarlo todo.

Sag mir Bescheid, was du denkst.

Three languages · one dictation · nothing configured

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Verified, not claimed

Every language below has been tested switching in and out of English and got every sentence right. Others advertise ninety-nine and let you find out which ones work.

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It stays on your Mac

Recognition happens on the machine. Audio is never written to disk and never transmitted. No account, no telemetry, no licence check-in — point a firewall at it and see for yourself.

A fraction of what cloud dictation subscriptions cost, because there is no server to pay for.

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$39 a year

Fourteen days free, no card and no account. One licence covers every Mac you personally use, with thirty days to change your mind.

A fraction of what cloud dictation subscriptions cost, because there is no server to pay for.

Download for macOS macOS 26 · Apple silicon · signed and notarised

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This is version 1.0

Holos is used every day — it wrote most of this page — but it is early. Recognition on a microphone that sits far from you, such as the one in a desktop display, is noticeably worse than on one close to your mouth. And while languages are identified correctly, transcription quality is still improving.

If something is wrong, write to me. A real person reads it, and at this stage your report changes what gets built next.