Write at talking speed.
Hold fn and say it. Aly puts it down as clean text wherever your cursor is — and if it should sound more formal, tap ⇧ before you let go. It all runs on your Mac, offline, and your voice never leaves it.
Seven days free with just your email. No card, nothing to cancel.
Apple silicon Macs · best on macOS 26+ · works offline
Compose your message...
Say it however it comes out.
Aly rewrites it in the tone the moment needs, before you let go of the key. The rewrite runs on your Mac, like everything else.
You said: hey can you send me the deck from yesterday i need it before the call at 3 thanks
Hey, can you send me the deck from yesterday? I need it before the call at 3. Thanks.
Click a tone — or press ⇧, the way you would in the app.
It stops getting your names wrong.
Correct “May” to “Mei” once and Aly offers to remember it. Colleagues, clients, product names, acronyms — the words you say most are the ones it gets right first.
- Names of people and places
- Jargon and acronyms from your work
- Offers to save a correction the next time it hears it
Works on the plane. And in the room with no signal.
Transcription and rewriting both run on your Mac, so there is nothing to wait for and nothing to send. Your voice never leaves the machine — there is no cloud path to opt into, because the code that could upload it was removed.
- No connection needed
- Nothing is uploaded
Three things you find out later
Speed and tone are what you download Aly for. These are the ones you notice a week in.
Ten languages, still on-device
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Cantonese — on macOS 26, with the model running on your Mac like everything else. On macOS 14 and 15, Aly dictates in English.
Which languages, and what your macOS version changesKnows where you're writing
Aly recognises the app or site you're dictating into — Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear and over a hundred more — and shapes your text to suit it. An email reads like an email, a chat message stays short, and a search box gets a query rather than a sentence.
Never dictates a password
Aly recognises a password field and keeps no transcript of what you said into it — not on screen, not in your history, not anywhere.
Nothing to learn. One key.
Install it, hold fn, talk. That is the whole workflow, from the first minute.
Install
Download Aly for your Mac
Aly walks you through microphone and Accessibility access, then lives quietly in your menu bar.
Speak
Hold fn and say it the way it comes out
No commands to learn. Talk the way you would to a colleague; if it should sound more formal, tap ⇧ before you let go.
Done
It's written before you'd have finished typing
Your words arrive as text in whatever app you were already in. Nothing is uploaded — the only record is a history on your own Mac, which you can read or clear in Settings.
Simple, thoughtful pricing
Pay $29 once and it is yours. Or $2.99 a month if you would rather not decide yet — either way it is the same Aly, and the monthly can stop whenever you like.
- Dictation in any app — works everywhere on your Mac
- Three rephrase tones: Formal, Casual, Vivid
- Runs fully on-device — no internet required after setup
- Private by default — your words never leave your machine
- Knows where you're writing — email, notes, chat, search, and over a hundred more
- All on-device speech models included free — Glance, Note and Scribe, no add-ons
- Lifetime license — pay once, use forever
Buy once, and a second copy is yours to give away.
7 days free with just your email — no card, nothing to cancel
Cancel anytime
Transcription runs on your Mac, always — private and unlimited on either plan. The one-off pays for itself against the monthly in about ten months; the subscription exists so nobody has to gamble $29 on an app they have used for five minutes.
Buy one, give one
Buy the $29 licence and your email comes with a gift code for a second copy. Send it to whoever you like — they redeem it with their own address and get their own licence, free.
One code per purchase, and it works once. Got one from a friend? Redeem it here.
Built one-handed, with Aly
A baby asleep in one arm, a broken thumb on the other hand, and a budget that ruled out renting servers. Aly runs on your Mac because that was the only way to build it — and most of it was dictated into itself.
Every awkward moment this app handles was an awkward moment while building it.
Most people type around 40 words a minute and speak around 150. Dictating is not a little quicker; it is a different speed.
At 500 words a day, talking instead of typing saves roughly nine minutes daily. Across a working year, that is a working week.
Aly costs $29 once. Set against those 40 hours, it buys back an hour of your time for about seventy cents — and again every year after.
Speed figures are typical averages, not a promise — your own typing speed is the number that decides it.
Common questions
Everything you need to know about Aly and how it works.
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Your next email, said instead of typed.
Seven days free with just your email. Dictation and tone rewriting both run on your Mac, so there is nothing to sign up for but the trial.