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SnailText

Voice dictation for Mac and Windows. Press a hotkey, speak, paste into any text field. Audio stays on your device — no cloud, no account, unlimited free tier.

SnailText main window in light mode — recording history, live word-per-minute stats, and the dictation hotkey.

Cost / License

  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Windows  Windows 10/11 64-bit. Installer not yet code-signed — SmartScreen may warn on first run.
  • Mac  Apple Silicon (M1+) recommended, macOS 12+. Needs Accessibility permission for the global hotkey.
SnailText main window in dark mode — same dictation history and stats, dark theme for low-light use.
SnailText settings with the recording pill active at the bottom of the screen — model selection, hotkey config, and the on-screen dictation indicator.
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused
  3.  AI-Powered

Features

  1.  Dark Mode
  2.  No registration required
  3.  Works Offline
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Speech Recognition
  6.  Voice dictation
  7.  Dictation
  8.  Speech to text
  9.  Voice recognition
  10.  Speech Transcription

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SnailText information

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  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    Subscription that costs $8 per month + free version with limited functionality.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Spanish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian

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What is SnailText?

SnailText turns speech into text anywhere you type. Press a global hotkey, talk, and your words land at the cursor in any app — Slack, VS Code, Gmail, Notion, browser forms, terminals. The speech recognition model (OpenAI Whisper, plus NVIDIA Parakeet on Pro) runs entirely on your own device. Audio is processed in RAM and never uploaded to any server, which means it works offline and keeps sensitive dictation private by architecture rather than policy. SnailText ships native on both Mac (Apple Silicon, Metal GPU) and Windows (Vulkan/CUDA) with feature parity. The free tier has no time limit and no word cap. Pro adds larger models, 25+ languages, and a custom dictionary.