Confidict
A privacy-first, fully on-device dictation and voice-editing app for professionals who dictate sensitive material — case notes, patient notes, article drafts — and need custom vocabulary plus voice commands that work without sending audio to the cloud.
lawyers, doctors, and journalists who dictate sensitive notes on a Mac
- On-device speech-to-text with per-user custom vocabulary packs (legal, medical, financial jargon)
- Voice editing commands like 'new paragraph', 'bold that', 'delete last sentence' that work in any text field
- Direct dictation into Word, Pages, and email drafts via macOS text-replacement hooks, no copy-paste needed
- Per-matter or per-patient dictation profiles that auto-tag transcripts and never leave the machine
The product-hunt launch of a fully on-device dictation tool, combined with growing privacy regulation around voice data, makes local dictation newly viable on Apple Silicon with Whisper-class accuracy
Product Hunt trending plus the privacy stance taps two large markets: professionals who already dictate and privacy-conscious users burned by cloud breachesGitHub - tristan-mcinnis/local-dictation: Free, private, on-device ... ↗
Dragon and Apple Dictation exist but aren't privacy-first with rich custom vocabularies; on-device pro dictation is sparseGitHub - tristan-mcinnis/local-dictation: Free, private, on-device ... ↗
Lawyers and doctors already pay $500+ for Dragon; a $20/mo subscription with better privacy is a clear value propositionGitHub - tristan-mcinnis/local-dictation: Free, private, on-device ... ↗
Dictation needs for professionals persist regardless of hype cycles and privacy regulation is tightening
On-device Whisper-class models run comfortably on Apple Silicon today; the harder part is reliable voice-command parsing