Fact · Dictation software
11 = yes, 0 = no
Wordmate's home page says audio goes from the microphone straight to a model on the Mac and is never uploaded.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“Your audio goes from the microphone straight to a model on this Mac. It is never uploaded.”
Wordmate | Free, local voice typing for Mac, Wordmate, 2026, Nothing leaves your Mac.
Open the original- What it measures
- The page says the speech model is Parakeet and runs natively on Apple silicon.
- What it does not show
- Mac only. The first release is for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or newer.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Wordmate, speech on device: 1 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- Wordmate
- Feature
- Speech processed on the device
- Detail
- Mac, Apple silicon
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 1 means the maker's page says the app does this