Freestyle is the dictation app that converts your voice into text. Hold down a hotkey, talk, and clean text will appear wherever your cursor is. Speak 4X faster than you type.
Freestyle is free, open source, and local-first. Run a local model and your dictations never leave your device, or bring your own API key when you'd rather use a cloud provider.
- Voice dictation — hold the hotkey, speak, release to paste at your cursor in milliseconds.
- Choose your model provider — OpenAI, Groq, Anthropic, Google, Deepgram, ElevenLabs. Bring your own API key.
- Transcription cleaning — grammar and punctuation cleanup via post-processing. No more "um, oh, but".
- Dictionary — custom phrase replacements applied after transcription. (ex.
"type script"→TypeScript). - Contextual correction — reformat your text based on where you're typing. Automatically format emails into email format.
| Platform | Download |
|---|---|
| macOS (Apple Silicon) | .dmg |
| macOS (Intel) | .dmg |
| Windows | .exe |
| Linux | .AppImage / .deb |
Contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, local development, and opening up a PR.
Consider joining our Discord server! That's where project contributors communicate.