Dictato

Dictato is doing something that sounds small but might matter — local-only voice-to-text that runs entirely on your Mac, no cloud, no lag, no privacy questions. Most voice-to-text tools send everything to third-party servers, which is fine until you remember you're piping every sensitive note or recording through Google's or OpenAI's infrastructure — Dictato skips that entirely. It's early, no public traction yet, but the premise is clean: if you're the kind of person who actually uses voice notes, running that locally is the kind of privacy play that feels obvious once someone builds it. Three makers behind it, available at dicta.to.