Voibe

Voibe, made by Essence AI Ltd., is a voice-to-text dictation app that transcribes speech into any app on your computer wherever your cursor is — hold a hotkey, speak, release, and the text appears — with a stated 12M+ words spoken and 3,000+ professional users at companies including Amazon, Netflix, and Nvidia. It supports both push-to-talk and hands-free modes, on-device transcription (zero data retention) on Apple Silicon Macs, a Developer Mode tuned for coding environments like Cursor and VS Code, custom vocabulary for names/jargon/acronyms, spoken-punctuation recognition, and memory shortcuts for text expansion — working across Mac (Intel and Apple Silicon) and Windows. There's no permanent free tier: Monthly runs $7.50/month, Annual $59/year, and Lifetime $149 (all shown at reduced promotional prices), backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. Good fit for someone who dictates frequently across many apps — including code editors — and wants on-device transcription with zero data retention on Apple Silicon specifically.