Purr lives in your Mac's menu bar. Hold Right Option, talk, let go, and what you said is typed into whatever app you're in: Slack, Mail, Notes, a code editor, a form in your browser.

The speech recognition runs on your Mac, using NVIDIA's Parakeet model for English or Whisper for about 100 languages. Your audio never leaves the machine, there's no account to make, and once the models have downloaded it works with Wi-Fi off.

Smart Typing puts the words into the app while you're still speaking.

Meeting notes record your mic and your Mac's audio, label who said what, and save a transcript and a summary with action items as Markdown files. They work in English and 27 more languages.

Voice Edit rewrites text you've selected. Hold Control-Option-E and say something like "change Friday to Thursday" or "make this shorter". Apple Intelligence or Gemma 4 does the rewrite, also on your Mac.

You can add names and jargon for Purr to listen for, fix words it keeps getting wrong, and use voice commands like "comma", "new paragraph" and "scratch that".

Purr is free and MIT-licensed. It needs an Apple silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later.