AI dication by Snaply

Snaply turns your speech into text without uploading audio anywhere. The on-device transcription models run on your Mac, which means no account, no cloud quota, and no audio sitting on someone else's server. It's speech to text for Mac users who don't want a server in the middle. It's the core reason to pick this over a browser-based transcriber.

Raw dictation usually reads like a transcript, not like writing. Snaply cleans up the punctuation, fixes grammar slips, and removes the filler words most people say without noticing. It edits as you speak. You get something closer to a finished sentence than a verbatim dump.

Open Meeting Notes and Snaply detects supported calls, records the audio locally, and produces a transcript plus a summary you can search across every later conversation you've had. Later versions add speaker labels, folders, and the ability to chat with a transcript, so you can ask what was decided in a meeting instead of re-reading the whole thing.

The writing assistant works on text you've already typed. Select a paragraph, tell it what you want, and it rewrites, shortens, or changes the tone. Simple as that. It's the same idea as a cloud AI writing tool, except the model sits on your machine.

Snaply types wherever your cursor is, so there's no separate editor to live in. It works in Notion, Slack, Salesforce, Gmail, and anywhere else you'd normally type, which means you stop copying text between tools every time you switch tasks. You keep your current workflow instead of migrating to a new one.

If you'd rather run Snaply against a cloud model, you can connect an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with your own key, which lets you swap in whichever provider you already pay for instead of being locked to one vendor's models. That keeps the choice in your hands: local by default, cloud when you explicitly want it.

Names, jargon, and unusual product terms trip up most dictation tools. Snaply lets you add your own words so it stops mangling the things you say most often. Add them once. The custom dictionary has gotten more reliable in recent releases.

Snaply handles multiple languages for both dictation and meeting notes, and you can set a favorite translation language. For teams that switch languages mid-conversation, it keeps the transcript readable rather than guessing at one setting and quietly getting half of it wrong.