Speak naturally, write effortlessly.
AI-powered voice-to-text dictation that works anywhere on your Mac. Record with a hotkey, let AI transcribe and format, and watch your words appear at the cursor.
Download on the Mac App StoreFeatures
Designed to disappear into your workflow. PenSistant stays in the menu bar until you need it, then gets out of your way.
Trigger recording with a global hotkey from any application. No window switching needed.
Powered by OpenAI Whisper for accurate, multi-language speech recognition.
GPT-4o-mini polishes grammar, punctuation, and structure automatically.
Text appears at your cursor in any app — browsers, editors, email, Slack. It just works.
Hold Right Command, speak, release. Instant Whisper-only transcription — no formatting delay.
Automatic detection and transcription for Portuguese and English out of the box.
API key secured in macOS Keychain. No telemetry, no data collection, no cloud storage.
Lives in your menu bar — lightweight, instant access, never in the way. Under 20MB.
How It Works
From thought to text in seconds, without leaving the app you're working in.
Hit Option+Command+T from anywhere on your Mac. PenSistant captures your cursor position and starts recording.
Talk as you normally would — in English or Portuguese. Whisper handles accents, pace, and pauses intelligently.
Your words — transcribed, formatted, and polished — are inserted right where your cursor was. Like magic.
About
Head of Engineering
Forward-thinking engineer with a strong record of driving business growth through technology strategy and execution. With expertise spanning product engineering, UI/UX design, AI integrations, and agile methodology, PenSistant was born from a personal need — dictating text anywhere on the Mac without breaking flow. Stanford AI-Driven Leadership certified.
PenSistant is open source and free to use. If it saves you time, consider buying me a coffee to keep development going.
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