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Dicty.io: free voice-to-text and documentation engine
Dicty.io, 2026
Read the originalRead on October 22, 2026
- What it is
- The home page of Dicty.io, a voice-to-text app for macOS and Windows. It describes the offline speech models, the formatting with language models, the vocabulary limits and the plans.
- How much weight it carries
- Written by the maker, with marketing comparisons against other apps that are not used here. The page has no revision date; its footer says 2026. Its pricing section is the same page as the #pricing address, which is cited separately.
Facts taken from this source
- Dicty's home page says the app formats dictated text with any language model and syncs with a Git workflow.
“Dictate anywhere, format with any LLM, and sync directly with your Git workflow.” (Home page, the opening section)
- Dicty's pricing section says audio is processed in RAM and never leaves the user's machine.
“Feature Starter ($0) Pro ($4/mo) Early Supporter ($99) ... Audio Privacy & Zero-Retention Audio processed in RAM; never leaves your machine” (Pricing, the feature matrix row 'Audio Privacy & Zero-Retention')
- Dicty's home page says the user can connect cloud language models, such as Claude, GPT-5 and Gemini, with their own API keys.
“Run offline GGUFs locally (Qwen, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek R1) or connect cloud LLMs like Claude 3.7, DeepSeek V3, GPT-5, Gemini, and Grok with your own API keys.” (Home page, the 'Language Models' section)
- Dicty's pricing table limits the custom vocabulary to up to 20 words on the Starter plan, and lists unlimited vocabulary on the Pro and Early Supporter plans.
“Feature Starter ($0) Pro ($4/mo) Early Supporter ($99) ... Custom Vocabulary & Acronym Library Specialized tech stack jargon, libraries, and name phonetic anchors Up to 20 words Unlimited Unlimited” (Pricing, the feature matrix row 'Custom Vocabulary & Acronym Library')
- Dicty's pricing section says the Starter plan is free forever and includes a 100% local speech engine.
“Starter Forever Free & Private $0 forever 100% local speech engine (Whisper, NVIDIA Parakeet)” (Pricing, the 'Starter' plan card)
- Dicty's home page says the app runs completely disconnected from the internet, with zero telemetry.
“100% Offline : Run completely disconnected from the internet with zero telemetry.” (Home page, the section 'Offline Speech Models with Full Benchmarks')