Turn audio into text, anywhere on your Mac.

Hold the ⌥ key and speak into whatever app is already open. Drop in any recording when you want the words out of it. Or let an agent transcribe a whole folder of videos or audio.

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Three and a half minutes of AFK in use — dictation, Notes, and the scoreboard.

Inside the app.

AFK Home screen showing words dictated, time saved, words per minute, and the day streak.
Words, time saved, and streaks on the Home screen.
AFK Transcribe screen showing the audio drop zone and supported audio formats.
Transcribe supported audio files in the Transcribe tab.
AFK Notes screen showing searchable dictations.
Search and review saved dictations in Notes.
AFK Automation screen showing CLI examples and Agent Skill controls.
Set up the CLI and Agent Skill in Automation.
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Three ways in.

Dictate anywhere

Hold the dictation key — Right Option by default, or any key you pick — speak, and release. The text lands in the field you're in. If the field can't take it, it waits on the clipboard instead of vanishing.

Read about dictation →

Transcribe a recording

Drop in an interview, a lecture, a voice memo. AFK reads it in 120-second chunks, so a three-hour file is a file, not a subscription. Save it as TXT, SRT, or JSON.

Explore audio transcription →

Hand it to a script

afk transcribe puts the text on stdout and everything else on stderr, so it pipes cleanly. Install the bundled Agent Skill and your coding agent can run it too.

Open the agents guide →

It's also just a command.

The AFK app binary doubles as a command-line tool. Transcribe audio or an MP4 with an audio track, save the result beside its source, or hand clean stdout to the next step. AFK also bundles a short Agent Skill that you install explicitly.

Read the CLI reference →

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$ afk transcribe meeting.m4a
$ afk transcribe interview.mp4 > interview.txt
$ afk install-agent-skill

Compare the way you work.

AFK is the one here with a one-time license, long-recording transcription, and a CLI. The other prices are recurring plans or limited tiers.

Product Current price Runs on
⌥AFKBest value $15 onceDictation + long recordings + CLI macOS 15+ on Apple SiliconProcessing stays on your Mac
Wispr Flow Free plan; Pro $15/month or $12/month annually Mac, Windows, iOS, Android
Monologue Pro $15/month or $144/year; free trial Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Superwhisper Free tier; Pro $8.49/month or $84.99/year macOS, Windows, iOS

Full comparison, workflow details, and primary sources →

Pay once, not per minute.

One license covers the dictation app and its local file transcription tools. The price rises $5 after every 10 paid sales — the ladder below tracks it live.

  • Dictation and file transcriptionUse both workflows in the same app.
  • Yours to keepOne license key, with app updates delivered in place.
  • No per-minute meterLong recordings use the speech model already set up on your Mac.
$15 once

One payment. No recurring plan.

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Say it once. Keep moving.

A key for the sentence, a file for the long recording, and a shell command for the part that was already scripted.

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