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.