Noqey - Stop typing to your AI. Just talk.

Get more done, in a fraction of the time.

Talking is 5× faster than typing, and you stop cutting corners to save keystrokes. The whole prompt comes out in one breath, so you finish far more work, far faster, and get a better result while you're at it. It picks up your language on its own, in any app.

Ramble all you want.

Pause to think, say "uh", start a sentence over, take something back. Noqey drops the filler and the false starts and types only what you meant. Nothing left to clean up afterwards.

You said

So uh let's meet Tuesday, no wait, Thursday at two, and um, forget the notes, I'll bring the deck.

Noqey typed

Let's meet Thursday at two, and I'll bring the deck.

Everything you need is free.

“I don't need your data. I've got enough on my plate.” The whole thing runs on your Mac, turn off your wifi and it still works.

Works everywhere

Editor, terminal, Slack, Mail. Anywhere you type.

Free & offline

Unlimited local Whisper. Or your own key.

Ducks your music

Fades down while you talk, back after.

Your own hotkey

Any key. Change it in two clicks.

Private by default

Offline mode. Key in the Keychain. No tracking.

English & Dutch

One click to switch. More coming.

Free covers everything. A key only sharpens it.

Noqey runs on a local Whisper model that's genuinely good: offline, unlimited, private, and quick enough to run your whole day on. If you want a little more accuracy on names and jargon, drop in your own key. It costs cents per hour and nothing else about the app changes.

Default · nothing to set up

Local Whisper

Free, forever · fully offline

Unlimited: talk all day, pay nothing
Runs entirely on your Mac, no internet needed
Private: your audio never leaves the device
About 1.5s per dictation on Apple Silicon
Accurate enough for everyday dictation

Optional · bring your own key

OpenAI or Groq

A few cents an hour · your key, your bill

OpenAI gpt-4o: the most accurate option, around €0.35 per hour of speech
Sharper on names, jargon and rare words
Groq: the same turbo model in the cloud, faster and cheaper
Your key stays in the macOS Keychain
Falls back to local the moment you go offline

Built like a cockpit.

Made by a helicopter pilot. Every failure has a backup, nothing slips through.

Cloud drops a chunkLocal Whisper refills it.

A request hangsA watchdog frees the app.

Mic busy on a callIt tells you, no silent fail.

Headphones switchClean stop, no lost take.

No internetThe offline model is always there.

Your API keyStays in the macOS Keychain.

How Noqey started.

"I'm a farm boy from the Veluwe who somehow ended up flying big helicopters. The rest of the time, my head runs on ideas, more than I could ever type out."

IT is my hobby, and my brain doesn't sit still. Once I started building with Claude Code and VS Code, one idea rolled straight into the next, faster than my hands could keep up. So I started talking to my Mac instead, and it clicked. These days I run almost everything by voice.

The good dictation apps worked, but they wanted 15 dollars a month, or 249 for a licence. For a hobby that adds up fast. I figured it had to be simpler, and it turned out the hard part, the speech model, is free and runs right on your Mac.

Privacy is a big deal to me. It's why I only use Apple devices, and it's why Noqey is built the way it is: it runs on your Mac and your voice stays yours. In local mode it never leaves the device.

So I built Noqey for myself. Then I thought: why keep it to myself? If it lets you keep up with your own head too, if it buys you more time for your ideas, good. That's the whole point. I just want to share a bit of my crazy creative mind with the rest of the world.

Like it? A little support keeps more free tools coming.

Wilfred