Wordmate
Wordmate is a free Mac dictation app that turns speech into text locally and pastes it into the app you are currently using.
What is Wordmate?
Wordmate is a native macOS voice-typing app for Apple silicon Macs. It helps users dictate text into almost any app, including editors, terminals, browsers, email, messaging apps, and AI coding tools, without sending recordings to a cloud service. The app lives in the menu bar and lets you start recording with the Fn key for quick replies, notes, prompts, or longer spoken input. Wordmate also cleans up dictated text by improving punctuation and removing filler words before pasting or copying the result. It is designed for people who want faster text entry with a local, privacy-focused workflow on Mac. Wordmate is published by Vladislavs Zdesenko and requires macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon.
Key features
- Dictate text into most Mac apps using system-wide voice typing
- Start quick or hands-free recording from the menu bar with the Fn key
- Paste finished transcripts directly into the currently focused app
- Keep recordings on your Mac with fully local transcription
- Clean up punctuation and filler words before inserting text
- Copy each transcript to the clipboard for reuse
- Use it for coding prompts, notes, messages, and longer text entry
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Wordmate is a legitimate dictation utility for macOS. Its core behavior involves listening to microphone input, converting speech to text, and inserting that text into the app you are using, so microphone access and broad text-entry behavior are normal for its purpose. Because it can place text into other apps, use it only when you intend to dictate and review what it inserts before sending messages or commands. If you do not use voice typing, you can remove it without affecting macOS itself.
Recommendation: Keep Wordmate if you actively use voice dictation or want local speech-to-text on your Mac. If you installed it to try it out and do not use it, removing it is reasonable and should mainly affect only its own voice-typing features.
Common paths
/Applications/Wordmate.app
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