iPhone App · On-Device AI

Dictee

by Speecon

On-Device AI Dictation for iPhone

Speak, transcribe, rewrite, and listen — powered by Apple's MLX framework, entirely on your device. No accounts. No cloud. No tracking. Your voice never leaves your phone.

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Requires iPhone 14 Pro or later · iOS 18.6+ · ~2 GB storage

Features

Everything on your iPhone

Private by design

No accounts, no cloud, no analytics, no tracking. Your audio and transcripts stay on your phone, always.

Fully offline

No Wi-Fi or cellular connection needed after installation. Works on a plane, in a basement, anywhere.

Rewrite in your style

Polish your transcript in four styles: Corrected, Formal, Concise, or Friendly.

Hear it read back

Natural on-device text-to-speech so you can proof your transcript by ear — no earphones needed.

How it works

Three steps, no server

Step 1

Tap & Speak

Tap the microphone button and dictate naturally in English or German.

Step 2

Transcribed on device

Qwen3-ASR converts your speech to text, entirely on your iPhone via Apple MLX.

Step 3

Polish & share

Rewrite in a chosen style, listen back, then copy or share anywhere on your iPhone.

Under the hood

Open-source models,
running locally

Dictee bundles three state-of-the-art AI models — all open-source, all Apache 2.0 licensed, all running on the Metal GPU inside your iPhone using Apple's MLX framework.

Full attributions, NOTICE files, and license texts are available in the in-app About screen.

Speech Recognition

Qwen3-ASR-0.6B · 4-bit quantized

Alibaba Qwen Team · Apache 2.0
Text Rewriting

Qwen3-1.7B · 4-bit quantized

Alibaba Qwen Team · Apache 2.0
Text-to-Speech

Soprano-80M · bf16

ekwek / mlx-community · Apache 2.0
Powered by Apple MLX + Metal GPU

No neural engine API. On-chip inference only.

Privacy

Zero data collected.
Not by design, by architecture.

Dictee has no analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no network calls related to your dictation. The AI models live inside the app bundle and process your speech locally. There is nothing to send home — because there is no home to send it to.

See the in-app About screen and our Privacy Policy for the full picture.

Requirements

Device: iPhone 14 Pro or later; 6 GB of memory or more — required to run the on-device AI models
iOS: iOS 18.6 or later; Required for the MLX framework version used
Storage: ~2 GB free; Three bundled AI model files

Your voice. Your device.

Download Dictee and start dictating privately.

Download on the App Store

Free · iPhone 14 Pro or later · iOS 18.6+