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What is Keebye?

Keebye is push-to-talk voice dictation for macOS. Hold Right Cmd, say the thing, release, and the text lands in whichever app has focus. Tap the key once instead of holding for a longer dictation, and press Esc to cancel. It inserts by pasting or by synthetic typing with terminal-aware chunking, which means it also works inside iTerm2 and Warp, over SSH, inside tmux, and on non-QWERTY layouts. It deliberately refuses to type into secure password fields.

Speech-to-text runs entirely on your Mac. The default Parakeet engine is English-tuned and fast; opt into the multilingual Canary engine for 25 languages, or use Apple's native engine in your system language. Fillers, false starts and doubled words are stripped by deterministic rules, with an optional polish pass that runs a local LLM, also on-device. Turn cleanup off and you get every word verbatim. A custom dictionary teaches Keebye your product names and acronyms once, and gets them right in every transcript after that.

Once a model is downloaded, transcription works with no internet connection at all. The network is used only to fetch models, check for updates and confirm your plan, never to send audio. There is no telemetry, and history is kept on disk as text only, auto-deleting after 30 days.

AI Tool Review Summary

Performance Score

B+

Content/Output Quality

Clean verbatim text, fillers stripped by rules, with a custom dictionary for your jargon

Interface

No window: a push-to-talk hotkey that types into whichever app has focus

AI Technology
Speech RecognitionNatural Language Processing (NLP)Large Language Models (LLM)Deep Learning
Purpose of Tool

Dictating into any app, terminal included, without audio leaving your Mac

Compatibility

macOS; any text field, plus iTerm2, Warp, tmux and SSH; refuses password fields

Pricing

14-day free trial, no card; Pro $74.99/mo or $600/yr; Lifetime $750 one-time

Features

Features with the highest value for users are highlighted here.

Push-to-talk hotkey, hold or t

100% on-device transcription

Works offline once models down

Terminal-aware insertion over

25 languages with the Canary e

Rule-based cleanup of fillers

Optional local-LLM polish pass

Who Is It For?

Software developers

Terminal and DevOps users

AI agent power users

Technical writers

Non-native English speakers

Privacy-conscious professionals

Pricing

Popular

Pro

$74.99/mo/monthly
  • Everything in the trial, kept after day 14
  • Canary model: 25 languages, on-device
  • On-device local-LLM polish pass
  • All future updates

Pro Lifetime

$750/one-time
  • Everything in Pro
  • Pay once, use forever
  • All future updates included

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Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Audio never leaves your Mac, with no telemetry and no analytics
  • Works fully offline once a speech model is downloaded

Cons

  • No free tier, only a 14-day trial
  • The first dictation after launch is slower while the model warms up

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