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Speak. It types
And Space fixes words typed in the wrong keyboard layout.
Press Left ⌥, talk, press it again — Sayful writes clean, polished text at your cursor in any Mac app.
Free — 3,000 words a week · Dictation in 99 languages
The case for speaking
Your thoughts move faster than your fingers.
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.
Press Left ⌥ and start talking — Slack, Notion, your terminal, an email draft, anywhere text goes. Press it again to stop, 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. Choose Fast for instant transcription or Quality when accuracy matters most. Prefer to hold a key? Turn on push-to-talk in Settings → Features; it uses Shift.
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. It runs on your Mac, with no account and no quota.
It reads the keyboard layouts you have installed in macOS, so the fix at the space bar works in more than 50 languages, not a hard-coded pair. Flipping text you selected afterwards, with a double-tap on ⇧, works between English and Ukrainian or Russian.
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, in more than 50 languages. -
Flip & correct selection
Select text and double-tap Shift to flip it between English and Ukrainian or Russian layouts, or single-tap Shift to fix typos, casing and small grammar slips with AI.
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Translate on the spot
Select text and press Shift+Space to translate it into the language of your current keyboard layout — German, Japanese, Ukrainian or any other.
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Grab text from the screen
Press ⇧⌘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.
Notes
Plan the work.
Then just say it.
Notes turns your voice into a workspace: boards of cards you can see as a Board, Table, List, Calendar, Gallery or Chart. Every card opens as a page with a block editor, sub-pages and links.
Type or say what to change — “Move the login bug to Done” — and the board assistant does it. Bring boards in from Notion or CSV, and export them to Obsidian.
- Free includes one board; Pro has unlimited boards.
- Boards are stored only on this Mac, encrypted, with the key in your Keychain. They are not synced and Time Machine skips them, so export anything you can’t lose.
- The board assistant and page AI use your weekly word allowance.
Also inside
Small tools
that add up.
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Typing trainer
Touch-typing lessons and timed tests with your stats, for English, Ukrainian and Russian.
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Personal dictionary
Teach Sayful the names and terms you say. It also notices the corrections you keep making and offers to learn them.
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Snippets
Say a short trigger and get the full text: spoken shortcuts that expand at the end of your dictation.
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Insights
Your words per minute, your streaks and where you dictate, kept on your Mac.
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Paste last transcript
Dictated into the wrong place? Re-paste your last transcript from the menu bar.
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Invite a friend
They get a free month of Pro when they sign up, and you get a free month once they start using Sayful.
How it works
Three moves.
That's the whole app.
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01
Press 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
Press again, text appears
Polished text drops in at your cursor, in whatever app you're already in.
Press to start dictating, press again to stop.
Fix the selected text.
Flip selected text between English and Ukrainian or Russian.
Translate the selection into your layout’s language: English, Ukrainian or Russian (English on any other layout).
Copy text from a screen region.
Read the selection aloud.
Run one of your saved AI transforms on the selection.
Run the Prompt Engineer transform on the selection.
Privacy, plainly
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 see what you send them: the audio you dictate, the text you select, the screen region you box — and, when you ask the Notes assistant, the titles and the start of the text of your cards.
- Your dictation history and your Notes boards are encrypted on disk with AES‑GCM; the keys live in your macOS Keychain, not in the files.
- No analytics on what you type or dictate — ever.
- AI provider keys are backend‑only secrets and never ship inside the Mac app; for Sayful Cloud the app keeps only your sign‑in session tokens in the Keychain.
- 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.
The free plan gives you 3,000 cloud words a week. Layout fixing, the typing trainer and Notes without AI never count against it.
Free
$0
- 3,000 words of cloud AI a week
- Dictation in every app
- 1 Notes board
- Layout flip — unlimited, runs locally
- Translate, grammar fix, screen OCR, read aloud
- Typing trainer, snippets and insights
Pro
$12/month
+ applicable tax, billed in USD. Renews monthly until you cancel.
- 300,000 words a week of cloud AI
- Unlimited Notes boards
- Board assistant and page AI at full allowance
- Everything in Free
30-day money-back · cancel anytime · Creem is the merchant of record. How to cancel · Refund policy
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 goes to Sayful Cloud only while you dictate, is passed to a speech-to-text provider, and is not stored by our servers, which keep usage counts, not content. The recording on your Mac is deleted a few minutes after transcription; one 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, the typing trainer and Notes without AI don't count against it at all. The Notes board assistant and page AI do, including the board or page text they send along. If you dictate long documents daily, Pro removes the ceiling.
- Which languages are supported?
- Dictation detects the language you speak on its own: 99 languages in the default Fast mode, with the best accuracy in widely spoken ones. The automatic layout fix at the space bar reads the keyboard layouts you have installed and covers more than 50 languages. Flipping selected text (double-tap Shift) works between English and Ukrainian or Russian, Shift+Space translates into the language of your current keyboard layout, and the typing trainer teaches English, Ukrainian and Russian.
- What language is the app in?
- The interface is in English for now, whatever language you dictate in.
- Do I need an account? What works offline?
- Cloud features (dictation, AI fixes, translation, screen OCR, read-aloud and the Notes assistant) need you to sign in with a Google account and to be online. Offline, layout fixing, Notes boards and pages and the typing trainer keep working; anything that calls AI does not.
- Which Macs does it run on?
- Apple Silicon (M1 or newer), macOS 13 or later. Signed and notarized by Apple. There is no Intel build yet.
- How do I cancel Pro?
- In Sayful, click your profile icon in the title bar, choose Manage billing and cancel in the billing portal — or use the link in your Creem receipt email. You keep Pro until the end of the period you already paid for. Step by step.
- What will I see on my card statement?
- Creem is the merchant of record and bills for us, so the charge appears as CREEM.IO* followed by a reference, not as Sayful. Prices are in US dollars, and tax for your country is added at checkout.
- Can I pay from my country?
- Not everywhere. Creem does not accept payments from some countries and regions, including Russia and Belarus (Creem’s list), so Pro is not available there. Free keeps working.
- Can I export or delete my data?
- Notes boards export to Obsidian from inside Sayful, and everything you made stays on your Mac. To get a copy of your cloud account data (account, usage counts, subscription) or to have it deleted, email support@sayful.app. The in-app Delete account only signs you out on this Mac.
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