Vord/Start here
One Mac app, three voice jobs
Vord types what you say, takes notes in your meetings and reads text back to you. One app in your menu bar instead of three.
Free for 14 days. Includes 3 hours of meetings. No card needed. macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon and Intel. No bot joins your calls.
Hold a key to write. Click once for meeting notes. Press two keys to listen.
Dictation
Hold fn, say it, let go. About a third of a second later, what you said is typed where your cursor is, in any app: email, chat, documents, that one web form that logs you out while you type. The demo below is scripted and does not use your microphone.
Press and holdor hold the right Option key on your Mac
Hi Ruth,
- Long thought? Tap space while holding fn to lock hands-free, or switch to tap to toggle.
- Say um a lot? Optional cleanup drops the fillers and applies your "no wait, I meant" corrections. It is off until you turn it on.
- Odd names? Add them once and Vord spells them your way. Dictation works in 60+ languages with the multi-language engine.
Meeting notes
You should never have to apologize for a robot in the participant list. Vord records on your Mac and captures both sides, your microphone and the Mac's own audio, so the other person is transcribed even when you wear headphones.
Your microphone
The call, via your Mac’s audio
- YouRuth, did the printer get back to you about the proofs?
- Speaker 1They did. Friday morning, but only if we sign off today.
- Speaker 2I can go through them after this. Can you send me the PDF?
- YouSending it now. Thanks, Martin.
Printer proofs
- The printer delivers proofs on Friday morning if they’re signed off today.
- Martin checks the PDF straight after the call; you’re sending it now.
- YouRuth, did the printer get back to you about the proofs?
- RuthThey did. Friday morning, but only if we sign off today.
- MartinI can go through them after this. Can you send me the PDF?
- YouSending it now. Thanks, Martin.
- A call starts. Click Start Meeting, or turn on auto-detect and Vord offers to take notes. It transcribes live while you talk, in any of 13 languages.
- You hang up. A second, more accurate pass works out who said what, then writes a summary and a title.
- Afterwards. Recordings and transcripts stay in your Documents folder, and you can translate a transcript into English or Hebrew.
Read aloud
Select the text in any app, press control shift, and a natural voice reads it while you do something else.
Hi all, a quick update on the roof. The contractors start on Monday the 14th and expect to finish by the end of the month, weather permitting. Scaffolding goes up on the east side first, so the bike shed will be closed for the first week. If you need to get to it, ask at the front desk and someone will open the side gate. The water will also be off between nine and eleven on Tuesday morning.
Or select some of it and press control shift. The button plays a sample voice, and only when you press it; reading your own selection is silent here.
- Your pick of voice. Choose one you like and set how fast it talks.
- An off switch. Press esc, or the same two keys again.
What Vord needs
The fine print, at normal size, where you can see it:
- A Mac. macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon or Intel. Meeting notes need macOS 14.2 or later. There is no Windows, iPhone or Android version.
- A Google or Apple account. You sign in to Vord with one. Your plan is tied to it, so use one you'll keep.
- Four permissions. Microphone, Accessibility, Input Monitoring, and Screen & System Audio Recording. The last one is how Vord hears the other side of a call.
- An internet connection. Speech is processed by cloud services, so Vord does not work offline. Vord's servers don't store your audio or transcripts. The speech and AI services we use may keep data briefly under their own policies.
Download Vord
Install it, sign in with Google or Apple, grant the four permissions, then hold fn and say something.
Download for MacFree for 14 days. Includes 3 hours of meetings. No card needed. macOS 14 or later.
