Cleanup that reads like writing
Switch on local Gemma cleanup and “um, so we should — no wait, Tuesday” becomes a sentence: punctuation, capitalisation, fillers removed, self-corrections resolved.
Local by default · One hotkey · One-time CHF 39
Speak roughly. It writes cleanly.
macOS transcribes your voice. Saydrop turns it into text you can send: local Gemma cleanup fixes punctuation, drops the “um”s and false starts, and follows the correction you made mid-sentence. Double-tap one key, speak, and it lands at your cursor in whatever app you’re in.
macOS · Apple Silicon only · CHF 39 one-time · 14-day trial
on-device transcribe · local cleanup by default
# audio is processed in memory
double-tap → mic capture
→ mlx-whisper (medium)
→ Gemma cleanup (local, optional)
→ ⌘V into focused appHow it works
Four steps, one gesture.
From hotkey to finished sentence without leaving the app you’re writing in — no window to focus, no menu to click.
01
Double-tap
Tap your hotkey, anywhere. A click-through pill floats above your work while you speak.
02
Transcribe
mlx-whisper (medium by default) turns speech into text entirely on your Apple Silicon Mac.
03
Clean up
Switch on local Gemma cleanup and the transcript becomes punctuated prose — fillers and false starts gone.
04
Paste
The finished text lands at your cursor via ⌘V — in whatever app you were using.
Capabilities
Ready to send.
Not just transcribed.
A raw transcript still needs editing. Saydrop’s job is the step after transcription — and doing it on your own hardware, for one payment of CHF 39.
Runs on your Mac by default
Gemma 4 E2B does the cleanup through mlx-lm on Apple Silicon, in an isolated subprocess — no transcript leaves the machine, and it works on a plane. Cloud cleanup via Gemini is available if you opt in and provide your own API key.
One key, two gestures
Hold to talk for a quick phrase, or double-tap to latch hands-free and double-tap again to stop. No mode to set — the key does both.
Lands in the app you’re already in
Mail, Slack, a terminal, a text field in a browser: the text is pasted at your cursor. Nothing to focus, nothing to copy out of a transcript window.
Personal dictionary
Names, jargon and product terms — one per line. It biases transcription and pins spelling during cleanup, re-read on every dictation.
Mixed-language dictation
Dictate across a configured set (de, en, fr, it…) and Saydrop auto-detects per clip — or pin a single language.
A transcript is a draft. What you actually want is the sentence you meant to say.
Privacy
Private
by architecture.
The cleanup step is the part most tools send to a server. Saydrop keeps both transcription and cleanup on your Mac, and transcript history is an explicit choice that is off by default.
- Transcription is local. Audio is processed in memory and is not persisted by Saydrop.
- Cleanup is off by default; local Gemma/Qwen and cloud Gemini are explicit choices.
- Rotating diagnostics stay local by default; optional Graylog sends metadata only and is off by default.
- Plaintext transcript history is opt-in, off by default, and can be explicitly deleted.
- If macOS hasn’t granted paste permission yet, your text is left on the clipboard rather than lost.
The safe default isn’t a feature you pay extra for. It’s the only way Saydrop works.
Before you download
Built for Apple Silicon.
Hardware
Mac with Apple Silicon
Disk
~2 GB for Whisper; more for optional cleanup models
Network
For model downloads or optional Gemini cleanup
Intel Macs, Windows and Linux aren’t supported. See the download page for full requirements.
Get started
Stop typing what you can
just say.
Try every feature free for 14 days. CHF 39 one-time if you keep it — no subscription, ever.
Made in Switzerland · By Squibble · macOS Apple Silicon