Set up Phrasora on Mac.
Phrasora lives in your menu bar. You hold a key, speak, and clean text lands in whatever app you’re using. Setup is four short steps — a download, then allow what it asks for, then your hotkey.
macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon or Intel. Free for 2,000 words a week, no card.
Four steps, a couple of minutes.
Download and open Phrasora
Download the Mac app from the downloads page and open it. Phrasora is a small menu-bar app — look for its mark in the top-right of your screen. It's a notarized direct download and keeps itself up to date.
Allow microphone and speech recognition
When asked, allow microphone access so Phrasora can hear you, and allow speech recognition — that powers the quick on-device draft while you talk. Whatever Phrasora asks for during setup, allow it; if you miss a prompt you can turn each one on under System Settings, Privacy & Security, and the app continues the moment access is granted.
Grant Accessibility
Allow Accessibility once. This is how Phrasora types your cleaned-up words into whatever app you're using. macOS asks for it under System Settings, Privacy & Security, Accessibility — toggle Phrasora on.
Pick your hotkey
Choose the key you'll hold to talk. The defaults are a hold-or-tap key to dictate and ⇧⌘D to toggle recording on and off, and you can change either one in Settings. Hold the key, speak, let go — that's the whole product.
Already granted a permission before? Phrasora skips that screen — it never makes you re-allow something you’ve already allowed.
It lives in your menu bar.
Once you’re set up, the Phrasora mark sits in the top-right of your screen. Your dictionary, history, and settings live there. Hold your hotkey anywhere — an email, a doc, a chat — speak, and let go. The words arrive clean and in place.
Need a hand with a permission? See troubleshooting.
Hold the key, speak, let go.
Clean text lands at your cursor.
Settings and dictionary in the menu bar.
Get the Mac app.
Free for 2,000 words a week, no card required. Download, allow what it asks for, pick your key, and start dictating in any app.