Lavoi

Dictation that keeps up with your thoughts.

Download for Mac

Free · Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later

Everyone talks faster
than they type.

Lavoi types into every app on your Mac, like

  • Messages
  • WhatsApp
  • Gmail
  • Google Docs
  • Notion
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • and every other app

Anywhere you can type: a browser, a terminal, a form, a chat.

4×
faster than typing, just as accurate
225 min
saved a week, for an hour of typing a workday

Examples written for this page

Messages To Mom

Landed safe, I’ll call you once I’m at the hotel.

Gmail To Ana Lima

Hi Ana, can we move the review to Thursday at 2 pm?

WhatsApp Family

Who’s bringing dessert on Sunday? I can do the salad.

ChatGPT New chat

Plan three days in Lisbon with one museum a day and cheap places to eat.

Claude Code api · main

Drop the user agent from the session cache key and run the tests.

Notion Groceries

Eggs, oat milk, two lemons, and something for dinner Friday.

Google Docs Cover letter

I’d love to bring five years of support experience to your team.

Linear New issue

Exports time out for workspaces with more than ten thousand rows.

Obsidian Journal

Slept badly, walked at lunch, felt much better by the afternoon.

Cursor Chat

Why does this test pass locally but time out in CI?

From code to finance to research.
Written for every field.

  • and every other field

Whatever your work, with its own names and jargon.

Code

Debounce the token refresh in useSessionRefresh to 300 ms, retry twice on a 401, and log the trace ID to Sentry.

Your ums are gone: "Um, make the rate limiter window configurable, keep the the sixty second default, and uh, add a test for a window of zero" is written "Make the rate limiter window configurable, keep the sixty second default, and add a test for a window of zero."

40 words a minute, typed by hand

200 words a minute, said to Lavoi

Meetings · in development

Rewind any meeting

Lavoi transcribes what is said and reads the text on the shared screen,
so you can search both. All on your Mac.

Said

Pricing

Free. All of it.

No account · No card · No word limit

$0

no trial

Dictation stays free for individuals.

  • Every app, at the caret
  • Five modes, 25 European languages
  • Offline after one model download
Download for Mac

Free · Updates itself · Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later

Questions

Anything else? Write to me at hello@coisland.app.

Does it work with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor?

Yes, and with any app that has a caret: terminals, editors, browsers, Slack.

How is it different from macOS Dictation or Wispr Flow?

macOS Dictation types word for word, Wispr Flow tidies on its servers, and Lavoi tidies on your Mac with no word limit.

Does anything leave my Mac?

Nothing you say. Lavoi downloads its models once from Hugging Face and asks updates.lavoi.app for a new version once a day; dictation itself works with the network off.

Can it press Return in my terminal?

No, nothing runs until you press Return yourself.

Will it change what I meant?

No: if a clean-up would change a number, a link or a “not”, you get exactly what you said.

What does Lavoi need access to?

The microphone, and Accessibility to type at your caret and read the window you type in.

What does Lavoi keep?

Your dictations, on your Mac only, deleted after a month by default.

Which Macs and languages?

Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later, in 25 European languages.