Speak in private. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Turn on Local Mode and Epilude Model 1 runs dictation entirely on your Mac. Your audio never leaves it, and it works with no internet at all. Cloud mode stays one click away when you want it.

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Epilude Settings

Dictation

Choose where dictation runs and manage your on-device models.

Cloud mode

Best for most people

Recommended

Uses Epilude's cloud model. Fast and accurate.

Your dictations are never saved on our servers
Real-time transcription
Requires an internet connection
Supports 35+ languages

Local mode

For maximum privacy

Ready

Uses Epilude Model 1, a local model, on your Mac.

Works offline once installed
Your voice and text stay on your Mac
Apple Silicon (M-series) only
Supports 25 European languages

Nothing leaves your Mac

Turn on Local Mode and Epilude Model 1 runs on your Mac. Your voice, and the text it becomes, stays right there. It never makes a round trip to a server, and no copy lands in the cloud.

Local mode

For maximum privacy

Ready

Uses Epilude Model 1, a local model, on your Mac.

Works offline once installed
Your voice and text stay on your Mac
Apple Silicon (M-series) only
Supports 25 European languages

Works with no internet

Once Local Mode is on, dictation runs offline. Speak on a plane, in a secure building, or anywhere with no signal, and your words still land in any app you write in.

Network

Wi-Fi

Working offline

State-of-the-art speech, on your Mac

Local Mode runs lightweight and performant open-weight models, optimized to run smoothly on your Mac. You speak, and Epilude turns it into formatted, punctuated text, without sending a thing to the cloud.

Epilude Model 1

Transcribes and cleans up your dictation entirely on your Mac.

Installed. Works offline.

1.5 GBDownloaded and ready

Cloud or Local, your choice

Cloud mode is the default and stays one toggle away, with support for more languages. Switch to Local Mode whenever a draft should stay on your Mac, and back whenever you want the cloud. No lock-in either way.

Dictation mode

Switch any time. No lock-in.

CloudLocal

Using Epilude cloud