Questions.

How Tabi works, in plain English. Anything missing, just ask.

What it is


What is Tabi?

A dictation app for macOS. Hold a key, say what you mean, let go, and cleaned up text lands wherever your cursor was. It works in any Mac app, not only a notes window.

Which key do I hold?

Hold fn and talk, then let go. Holding fn and Shift together starts a hands free take that keeps listening until you stop it.

Does it write differently in different apps?

Yes. Each app can own a style, so what you say in Slack is not cleaned up the same way as what you say in Mail.

Which languages does it understand?

Thirteen, and it hears the one you switch into. You can let Tabi detect the language or pin a single one in Settings.

Your words


Where do my words go?

To Mistral, the French AI company, and to no one else. No other AI company and no other cloud is involved.

Does Tabi keep my recordings?

No. The audio is discarded the moment it becomes text and is never written to disk. Your takes are saved as text on your own Mac, and you can delete any one of them, or all of them, inside the app.

Are there accounts or trackers?

No accounts, and nothing that follows you between sites. The app collects no analytics at all. This site counts page views in aggregate, with no cookies and nothing tied to a person, so there is no consent banner to click.

Running it


Does it need an internet connection?

Yes. Speech to text and cleanup both run on Mistral's models, so a take needs a connection.

What do I need to run it?

A Mac running macOS 14 or later.

Still stuck? Write to contact@heytabi.app. A real person reads it.