Hold a key, say what you mean, release — DeckVoice types it right where your cursor is. Mail, Slack, VS Code, anywhere. Private on-device engine that never sends audio anywhere, or plug in your own free Groq key for sub-second cloud speed. Plus Atlas — a hands-free voice agent that talks back and runs your Mac.
This is the exact flow on your Mac: hold your talk key → speak → release → your words land at the cursor.
Release to “transcribe” — watch it type. On the real app you hold your talk key and this is your voice, in any app, ~1 second later.
Install, pick a talk key, talk. The built-in checklist walks you through the mic and Accessibility permissions, once. Step-by-step help lives in the DeckVoice guides.
Drag to Applications and open it. Paste your license key (from your purchase email) in Settings → License → Activate, then the built-in checklist walks you through the mic + Accessibility, once.
Set the shortcut you want — it ships on ⌃⌥D — and choose whether it toggles recording or records only while you hold it. You can also arm the spacebar itself as your hold-to-talk key. A tiny floating pill shows when it's listening — park it anywhere.
Your words paste at the cursor in whatever app is focused. The on-device model downloads once on first use, then runs entirely on your Mac with no network at all — or add a free Groq key for the fastest cloud engine and 99 languages.
Push-to-talk dictation in every app, an on-device engine that never sends audio anywhere, and the Atlas voice agent — one $19 license, no tiers, no add-ons.
Not a notes app you copy from — it pastes straight into the app you're using, at the cursor.
The built-in on-device Whisper engine never sends audio anywhere. No account. No telemetry.
Add your own free Groq key: sub-second transcription, 99 languages, ~$0.04/hour of audio if you ever exceed the free tier.
The on-device model downloads once on first use, then runs entirely on your Mac with no network at all — plane, café with dead Wi-Fi, secure site. On-device transcription is English; the cloud engine covers 99 languages.
Teach it your names and jargon — “deck voice” → “DeckVoice”, done. Plus live stats and latency readouts.
Five glass finishes — Liquid Glass, Frosted HUD, Crystal Edge, Aurora Glass, Obsidian Titanium — six accent colours, and a live frequency waveform driven by real-time spectrum analysis while you speak.
Flip the pill to Atlas: ask out loud and it answers out loud in a natural neural voice (your Groq or Gemini key), with the built-in macOS voice as the fallback. Optional always-on standby listening means you can just start talking.
Not just answers — Atlas opens, quits and focuses apps, opens URLs, types text, presses shortcuts, clicks a control by its label and picks items out of the menu bar.
Add your free Gemini key and Atlas looks at what's on screen, then clicks the control you describe in plain words — by sight, so it works even where nothing is labelled for accessibility.
Full send, ask before anything risky, or ask before every step. It ships on ask-before-risky, so deleting, sending, buying or running a script waits for your spoken yes. When a request is ambiguous it speaks the question and waits for your answer.
Atlas runs on your own Groq, OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini key — your account, your data. Or point it at the Claude Code CLI you already have installed and use no API key at all.
Open a Claude Code session by voice, hear what it's asking, and answer by speaking. Ask for status across your sessions, or stop one, without touching the keyboard.
Every subscription dictation app costs more in year one than DeckVoice costs forever — and you keep paying.
| App | Pricing | Year 1 | 3 years | Offline | Your own API key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeckVoice | $19 once | $19 | $19 | ✓ built-in | ✓ optional (free Groq) |
| Wispr Flow | $15/mo subscription | $180 | $540 | ✗ cloud only | ✗ |
| Willow Voice | $12–15/mo subscription | $144+ | $432+ | ✗ cloud only | ✗ |
| Aqua Voice | $8/mo subscription | $96 | $288 | ✗ cloud only | ✗ |
| Superwhisper | $8.49/mo or $849 lifetime | $102 | $306 | ✓ | ✓ |
| VoiceInk | $39 once (Apple Silicon only) | $39 | $39 | ✓ | ✓ |
| MacWhisper Pro | ~$69 once (files, not live dictation) | $69 | $69 | ✓ | — |
Competitor prices as listed on their own sites when this page was last checked (July 2026) — they may have changed since; check before you compare. Trademarks belong to their owners.
$19, one-time — lifetime license, free updates, 7-day refund. Or take it inside Deck Complete with the rest of the deck.
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No — it's optional. DeckVoice includes an on-device Whisper engine: the model downloads once on first use, then runs entirely on your Mac with no network at all. On-device transcription is English; the cloud engine covers 99 languages. If you want the fastest engine (sub-second, 99 languages), create a free key at console.groq.com and paste it into Settings. Groq's free tier covers most people; beyond it, speech costs about $0.04 per hour of audio — a heavy month is pocket change, and it's your key, on your account.
Atlas is DeckVoice's built-in voice agent. Instead of dictating, you flip the pill to Atlas and ask out loud — it answers out loud, hands-free, in a natural neural voice with the built-in macOS voice as the fallback. It also acts on your Mac: it opens, quits and focuses apps, opens URLs, types text, presses shortcuts, clicks a control by its label and picks items out of the menu bar. Add your free Gemini key and it can look at the screen and click something you describe in plain words. When a request is ambiguous it speaks the question and waits for your spoken answer, and it can open a Claude Code session by voice, relay what that session is asking and take your reply out loud. You choose how far it goes — full send, ask before anything risky (the default), or ask before every step — so deleting, sending, buying or running a script waits for your yes. It runs on your own Groq, OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini key, or on the Claude Code CLI you already have installed with no API key at all — your account, your data. Turn on optional always-on standby listening and you can just start talking. Every DeckVoice license includes Atlas.
Only if you choose the Groq engine — then audio goes to Groq under your own key. On the default on-device engine, audio never leaves your Mac. No accounts, no telemetry, either way.
macOS 12 Monterey or newer — Apple Silicon and Intel both. (On Intel it auto-picks a faster on-device model; cloud speed is identical everywhere.)
The standard ones for any dictation app: Microphone (to hear you) and Accessibility (to type/paste into other apps) — plus Input Monitoring if you set a single modifier key as your hold-to-talk key, Automation (Apple Events) the first time Atlas quits an app or picks something out of the menu bar, and Screen Recording if you let Atlas look at your screen. The app walks you through all of it with live status checks, once.
You get a signed key on the thanks page and by email. Paste it in Settings → License → Activate — that activates this Mac with a one-time online check, then DeckVoice works offline. One license covers 2 of your Macs (a 3rd is declined; deactivate a Mac to move your license). Buying for a team? One $19 license per person.
Everything DeckVoice does — push-to-talk dictation in every app, the on-device and Groq cloud engines, and the Atlas voice agent. After you buy, paste your license key to activate this Mac and it's all unlocked — no tiers, no add-ons. One-time purchase, free updates, 7-day refund.
7 days, no questions. Email info@deckspace.dev and a real person refunds you fast.
macOS only for now. Tell us you want Windows — it genuinely moves the roadmap.
$19 once. Yours forever. Set up in a minute.
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