Why I built this.

I dictate a lot. I tried Wispr Flow, I tried Monologue and other apps, and they're good, but paying each month for something I wanted to use more and more of wasn't digestible. It stopped me from using the tech. The open-source apps weren't giving me the quality, interface, and features I wanted either.

So I built AFK.

Hold the Option key, speak, let go. The words land in whatever you were typing into. The same engine takes a three-hour recording as easily as a sentence, and the app doubles as a command-line tool, so a script or a coding agent can transcribe a whole folder while you do something else. You pay for it once.

The name is the shortcut. AFK means away from keyboard. Hold ⌥ and spell A‑F‑K, and you can keep talking hands-free for as long as you want.

It runs on macOS 15 or later on Apple Silicon, and after the first model download the transcription happens on your Mac. The guides cover the details.

The way AFK is built, your audio and transcripts stay on your Mac after setup. Privacy isn't the reason I built it, but hey, I get it: it might be a big deal for you. Win-win, right?

AFK is designed and maintained by one person. If something is rough, tell me. I read everything, and I probably dictated the reply.