macOS · menu bar
Speak. It types
Press the key and talk — Sayful writes clean, polished text in any Mac app. Less typing, fewer fixes.
Free — 3,000 words a week · Private · 100 languages
The case for speaking
We’ve typed for a hundred years, now it’s time to talk.
Your best ideas never came at 45 wpm.
You don’t type into an LLM anymore. You talk to it. Typing is the bottleneck — not the thinking.
And this is what the sharpest minds are already doing “…lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10 minutes.”Meet the app
Beautiful on the
inside too.
Insights, streaks, snippets, custom transforms — everything lives in one quiet, native macOS app.
The main event
Your voice,
in every app.
Hold Left ⌥ and start talking — Slack, Notion, your terminal, an email draft, anywhere text goes. Release, and the transcript appears at your cursor, cleaned up by AI: no filler, correct casing, real punctuation.
You speak around 150 words a minute and type around 45. Sayful gives the difference back — tap once for hands-free mode, choose Fast for instant transcription or Quality when accuracy matters most.
Watch: typing with the wrong layout on…
And one more thing
Wrong layout?
One space fixes it.
Typed a whole message before noticing the keyboard was in the wrong
language — руддщ instead of
hello? Sayful fixes the word the moment you
hit space, switches your input source, and moves on. No selecting, no
retyping.
No other dictation app does this. It reads your real keyboard layouts from macOS, so it works across 55 languages rather than a hard-coded pair. Select older text and double-tap ⇧ to flip that too.
Text trapped in pixels
Pull text off
your screen.
Press ⇧+⌘+S and drag a box around anything — a video still, an error dialog, a PDF you can't select. Sayful reads the text with OCR and drops it straight on your clipboard.
Recognition runs in the cloud, and Sayful only ever looks at the exact region you box — nothing else on your screen is captured.
More than dictation
Six superpowers,
one menu-bar icon.
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Fix the wrong layout, live
Typed
руддщwhen you meanthello? Sayful rewrites it and switches your input source back — as you type. -
Flip & correct selection
Select any text and double-tap Shift to convert layouts, or single-tap to fix typos, casing and small grammar slips with AI.
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Translate on the spot
Turn selected text into English, Ukrainian or Russian from the menu — or hit Shift+Space to translate into your current layout's language.
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Grab text from the screen
Press Shift+⌘+S, drag a box over anything on screen, and the recognised text lands on your clipboard. Works where selection can't.
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Read anything aloud
Send any selection to a natural-sounding cloud voice and have Sayful read it right back to you. Great for catching mistakes by ear.
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Your own AI transforms
Save custom AI instructions — rewrite, tidy up, restructure — and run them on any selection with a hotkey. Ships with a Prompt Engineer that turns rough notes into a clean prompt.
How it works
Three moves.
That's the whole app.
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01
Hold the hotkey
Left Option starts listening from the menu bar. No window, no focus stealing.
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02
Just speak
Say it however it comes out. Sayful captures speech and hands it to AI to tidy.
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03
Text appears
Polished text drops in at your cursor, in whatever app you're already in.
Fix selected text.
Flip selected text between layouts.
Translate into your current layout.
Copy text from a screen region.
Start & toggle hands-free dictation.
Read the selection aloud.
Private by design
Your words
stay yours.
Layout correction is rule-based and runs entirely on your Mac — no account, and your text never leaves the machine. The app downloads a word list once per keyboard language, and nothing else. The AI features run in Sayful’s cloud and only ever see the exact text or screen region you act on.
- Your dictation history is encrypted on disk with AES‑GCM; the key lives in your macOS Keychain, not in the file.
- No analytics on what you type or dictate — ever.
- Automatic layout flipping stays silent in terminals, password managers and other risky apps.
The maths
What you get back.
9.8
hours a week you stop spending on the keyboard
451
hours a year — speaking runs at about 150 wpm, typing at 45
∞
times you don’t retype a sentence because the layout was wrong — and don’t get annoyed about it
The assumption behind these numbers: you dictate about 70% of what you type — messages, email, docs, notes, AI prompts — and keep typing the rest, because nobody dictates code or spreadsheets. That works out to roughly half the time for the same working day.
Pricing
Start free.
Stay free, honestly.
Comparable apps run $8–18 a month with a 1–2,000-word free tier. Sayful's free plan is built to be enough for real daily use.
Free
$0
- 3,000 words of cloud AI a week
- Dictation in every app
- Layout flip — unlimited, runs locally
- Translate, grammar fix, screen OCR, read aloud
- Private by design
Pro
$12/month
- 300,000 words a week — effectively unlimited
- Everything in Free
- Priority transcription quality
- Custom AI transforms without limits
Questions
Fair questions,
straight answers.
- Does it work in every app?
- Yes — Sayful types at your cursor through macOS accessibility, so Slack, Notion, terminals, browsers and email all behave the same. If you can place a cursor there, Sayful can type there.
- What happens to my voice recordings?
- Audio is deleted a few minutes after transcription; a recording that failed to send is kept until it succeeds, and no longer than 30 days. Local dictation history is encrypted (AES-256) with the key in your macOS Keychain, auto-deleted after 30 days, and nothing you type or dictate is used for training.
- What does the layout flip do, exactly?
- When you type a word with the wrong keyboard language active —
руддщinstead ofhello— Sayful notices at the space, rewrites the word and switches your input source. It runs locally with no quota. - Is 3,000 words a week actually enough?
- That's roughly 12 pages of dictated text every week. Layout flip doesn't count against it at all. If you dictate long documents daily, Pro removes the ceiling.
- Which languages are supported?
- Dictation detects what you speak on its own, across 100 languages. Layout flip reads the keyboard layouts you actually have installed rather than a fixed pair, covering 55 languages — English, Ukrainian and Russian additionally get hand-tuned rules.
- Which Macs does it run on?
- Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later. Signed and notarized by Apple. There is no Intel build yet.
Stop retyping.
Start talking.
Sayful lives quietly in your menu bar and saves the small, constant effort of fixing text by hand — all day, in every app.
Free — 3,000 words a week · Apple Silicon · macOS 13+