JoyType
Type with your voice
Mac
Version 26.5.16.0
macOS 15.0 or later
524.9 MB
1 languages
JoyType lets you type with your voice — anywhere on your Mac. Hold a hotkey, speak, release, and text lands right where your cursor is. It's a local-first alternative to cloud dictation tools like Wispr Flow: everything runs on Apple Silicon, no audio ever leaves your machine. Double-tap for hands-free mode, or just hold for quick bursts. 25 languages, no internet required.
Dictate text in any app
Reply to chats without touching the keys
Capture ideas the moment they appear
Go hands-free with a double-tap
JoyType features
Push-to-talk in any app
Hold your hotkey, speak, release. Works in Slack, Mail, ChatGPT, Cursor — anywhere a cursor blinks.
Hands-free mode
Double-tap to start continuous dictation. Tap again to stop. Built for long notes and emails.
Fully on-device
Speech recognition runs on Apple Silicon via Parakeet. No internet, no cloud, no account.
AI Polish
A local LLM cleans up filler words and punctuation. Still on your Mac — never uploaded.
25 languages
From English and Spanish to Ukrainian and Polish. Switch on the fly. Supported Languages: Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Maltese (mt), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Ukrainian (uk)
Quiet menu-bar app
No dock icon, no windows. Lives in your menu bar, ready when you are.
Ratings and reviews
JoyType
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48 ratings
Tim Titus
Jul 3, 2026
App version: 26.5.16.0
Concept is good, but a few issues: #1 as others have noted, you need to enable user-set keys (including multi key-stroke combinations) to enable the speech-to-text to start. #2 The icon in the menu bar keeps disappearing, and there is no way to get it back.
Troy
Jun 29, 2026
App version: 26.4.20.0
Keyboard shortcuts conflict with default system shortcuts. Very basic stuff. But Setapp loves to add vibecoded apps
Diego Cárdenas
Jun 18, 2026
App version: 26.5.16.0
Es dificil de usar, no hay un tutorial que te explique.
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