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Molvi for Mac

Hold a key, talk, and the text appears where your cursor is.

Download for macOS DMG · 27.6 MB · Apple Silicon · 0.4.0

Upgrading from 0.2.x? After the update, macOS will ask you to allow Microphone and Accessibility access again. Your settings and downloaded model stay in place.

What you need

Chip
Apple Silicon (M1 or newer). There is no Intel build.
System
macOS 13 or later.
Space
About 1 GB for the app and the recognition model.
Internet
Needed once, to download the recognition model on first launch. After that dictation works offline.

First launch

  1. Open the DMG and drag Molvi to Applications.
  2. Molvi offers to download the recognition model (about 886 MB). This happens once.
  3. It asks for microphone access and for Accessibility access; without the second it can't type into other apps.
  4. The default hotkey is Option + Space. Hold it, speak, release, and the text appears where your cursor is.

About cloud processing

Speech recognition always runs on your Mac. Cloud text processing is part of Molvi Pro only: connect your Mac to your subscription with a code from your iPhone and give your permission, and the recognized text (not the audio) is sent to the Molvi server as described in the privacy policy. Without that, nothing is sent.

Tell us what went wrong

The most useful thing is to hear where Molvi got it wrong. See Support for what to include.

Check the file

If you want to verify the download, the SHA-256 should match:

shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/Molvi_0.4.0_aarch64.dmg
0e030e107060988528078cccdbb6592c44fddde74ceff5423abc518cb370f264