Fact · Dictation software
freeplan
Parrot's page describes the app as free and open source, with no subscription.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 21, 2026
In the source's own words
“Free, open-source push-to-talk dictation for macOS.”
Parrot: Ultra-minimalist macOS dictation, humanitas-labs (Parrot, perroquet.xyz), 2026, Product page, hero section.
Open the original- What it measures
- Read on the maker's own page on 2026-10-21. The row records only whether the page says the app has this feature.
- What it does not show
- The page is the maker's own statement. It does not show how the app behaves in tests, and features can change with updates.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Parrot, free plan: 1 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- Parrot
- Feature
- Free plan
- Detail
- free, MIT, no subscription
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 1 means the maker's page says the app does this. The quoted sentence on the page says it does apply.
A row of Dictation Software Prices: What Each App Costs, as Parrot, free download: 0 US dollars.
- App
- Parrot
- Plan
- Free, open source, MIT
- Billing
- Free
- Platforms
- macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon
- Where speech is processed
- On device
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- Free is written as 0 dollars. The page says free, with no subscription.
Source
Used to calculate
- In the dictation and voice typing app prices dataset, the 82 published figures for “Free” have a median of 0 US dollars, ranging from 0 to 0.
- The dictation and voice typing app prices dataset holds 237 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The dictation and voice typing app prices dataset draws on 110 distinct sources.
- The features of dictation and voice typing apps dataset holds 758 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The features of dictation and voice typing apps dataset draws on 277 distinct sources.