Your voice. Your prompts.
Your output in Slack.
Most dictation tools decide your tone for you. Orater lets you write the prompt — once per app — and obeys. Press Fn, speak naturally, get text in your voice. Audio stays on your Mac.
Download for macOS- No credit card
- 21 days Pro free
- Works offline
Works everywhere. Literally.
Your keyboard is the bottleneck.
In 2026, you write across ten apps a day — to people, to AI, to your future self. The tool hasn’t changed since 1874.
You speak at 150 WPM. You type 40. Your thoughts arrive 4× faster than your fingers can catch them.
Slack, email, ChatGPT, Notion, Jira, Docs, LinkedIn. Switching keyboards between them breaks your flow.
Good ChatGPT prompts are long. Typing them costs you minutes. Voice turns minutes into seconds.
Three seconds from thought to clean text.
One keystroke. No setup. No floating windows. Orater lives in your menu bar and disappears until you need it.
Press Fn
A single key, pressed anywhere on macOS. Works in every app — ChatGPT, Slack, Mail, Notion, Code, Figma, whatever has a cursor.
Speak naturally
Just talk. Rambling, stumbling, restarting — all fine. Whisper Large v3 runs on-device, so your voice never leaves your Mac.
AI cleans it up
Filler words removed. Punctuation added. Tone polished. Clean, perfect text appears at your cursor in under a second.
One voice. Different in every app.
Most dictation tools auto-detect what tone you "should" use. Orater hands you the wheel: write a prompt once per app and Orater rewrites every dictation to that recipe.
Slack · prompteditCasual & terse. No greetings, no sign-off. Use bullet lists when 3+ items. Keep emojis sparse. Lowercase 'i' is fine.
hey team uhh just wanted to share that the launch is moving to friday and like the metrics dashboard is in the staging slack channel ok thanks
One voice.
Every surface you write on.
Long dictation, hands-free notes, 100+ languages, and per-app prompts that shape the tone before text hits your screen.
Speak in every language you think in.
Code-switch mid-sentence. Orater follows.
Walk and write. Pace and think.
Lock recording, leave the keyboard, come back to a finished page.
The same voice. Different on Slack and Gmail.
Slack→Casual. No greetings. Bullets when listing.
Gmail→Polite, concise, sign as Shail.
ChatGPT→Long, structured prompts. Be specific.
Notion→Markdown headings. Action items at end.Quick thoughts. Drop anywhere.
“reply yes”
→ Yes — sounds good. Let's do Tuesday at 3.
Audio never leaves your Mac.
Whisper Large v3 runs on Apple Silicon. Works on a plane. No cloud bills, no data tap.
4× faster than typing.
Watch them race.
Same sentence. Same start. Two ways to write it. The keyboard never wins.
Speak naturally.
Write perfectly.
Orater removes filler words, fixes grammar, and adapts to your writing style — automatically, before text lands on screen.
um so I wanted to reach out uh about the project timeline, and like, we should probably uh reschedule the meeting for next week if that works for you
I wanted to reach out about the project timeline. We should reschedule the meeting for next week — let me know if that works for you.
Filler removal
"Um", "uh", "like", "you know" disappear before text reaches the screen — every time.
Grammar correction
Run-ons split. Tense aligned. Punctuation placed. Stops being a transcript — starts being writing.
Style matching
Formal in Gmail. Loose in Slack. Markdown-ready in Notion. Your prompts decide; Orater listens.
Cloud dictation is great.
Orater is different.
Both turn voice into clean text. Beyond that, the philosophies diverge. If control, privacy, and indie ownership matter to you — Orater is the better fit.
OraterEarly days.
Honest about it.
Orater launched a few days ago. 3 active users. $0 in revenue. A public beta you can try free. What you get instead of stock testimonials: an indie founder who answers every email personally and ships every Friday.
"I built Orater because every voice-to-text tool either ships my audio to the cloud or decides my tone for me. I wanted neither. If you've felt the same — give the 7-day Pro trial a shot, then email me what works and what doesn't. I read every reply."
Choose how seriously you write.
Download the app to get started with 21 days of Orater Pro for free.
Try Orater
7 days of full Pro access. After that, transcription stays free — polish stops.
Free
- On-device Whisper Large v3 — your voice never leaves your Mac
- Full Pro for 7 days, no card
- After trial: free raw transcription forever
- Support for 100+ languages to English
- Privacy mode (Zero Data Retention)
- Works in every Mac app
Pro
Unlimited polished dictation. Per-app prompts. Cloud sync.
$7
- Everything in trial, plus:
- Unlimited words to dictate
- Unlimited per-app custom prompts
- Custom vocabulary and tone training
- Prompt sync across multiple Macs
- Priority processing and support
- Early access to new features
Lifetime — Founding 100
Only 97 spots leftPay once. No subscription, ever. Limited to the first 100 buyers.
Pay once, own it forever
Includes 3,000 polished dictations/month. Power users can upgrade to Pro anytime. Invoices available for company reimbursement.
Everything you want to know.
Privacy, accuracy, pricing, and how it fits your workflow — answered.
No. Orater uses Whisper Large v3 running entirely on your Mac. Your voice and transcripts never touch our servers. Offline mode works fully without internet.
On Apple Silicon, accuracy on conversational English is around 96%+. Whisper Large v3 is one of the best open-source models available, and we tune it for everyday work language.
100+ languages. Code-switch mid-sentence — Orater follows. Polish (filler removal, tone) currently best in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, with more rolling out monthly.
If your cursor blinks in it, Orater types in it. Slack, Gmail, ChatGPT, Notion, Cursor, Mail, Pages, Figma, Terminal — anywhere on macOS.
Filler words ("um", "uh", "like", "you know") are removed before text lands on screen. False starts are detected and rewritten. You speak how you think; Orater writes how you read.
Free forever for raw transcription after a 7-day Pro trial. Pro is $9/month or $79/year. Founder lifetime is $69 one-time, limited to first 100 buyers.
Not yet. Orater is macOS only — built for Apple Silicon to take advantage of on-device Whisper Large v3 performance. Windows and Linux are roadmap items, not promises.
Yes. Default is Fn (held). You can rebind to any key combo, or use push-to-talk vs lock-and-go modes per app.
Stop typing.
Start speaking.
Download Orater free for macOS. 21 days of Pro, no credit card. Works offline, on-device AI, plays nicely with every app.
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