The fastest keyboard on your Mac is your voice.
Hold one key in any app — Mail, Slack, Xcode, a Google Doc — talk, and let go. The text is already there: punctuated, shaped like the thing you were writing, and spelled the way you spell things.
macOS 14.6 or later · Apple silicon and Intel · free to download
hi priya thanks for the call just now sending over the revised scope we agreed three things pilot starts the fifth of september fernway handles onboarding and we review at the end of the month let me know if that matches your notes
Hi Priya,
Thanks for the call just now — sending over the revised scope we agreed.
Let me know if that matches your notes.
Any app. Any text field. One key.
Press ⌃⇧D from anywhere and talk. Or hold a modifier — Globe, ⌘, ⌥, ⌃ — like a walkie-talkie and let go when you’re done. Got a long thought? Double-tap to lock it on and speak hands-free.
Your ordinary shortcuts stay yours. ⌘C still copies; MAI only listens when you mean it.
One permission, asked once
Typing into other apps needs macOS Accessibility access. MAI walks you through it on first launch and flips to done the moment you grant it.
Say no and dictation still works — your words land on the clipboard instead, and MAI tells you why rather than failing quietly.
It already knows how you spell things.
Every other dictation tool starts from zero. MAI starts from your second brain — your projects, your themes, the people who were in yesterday’s meeting. Names it has never heard spoken come out right the first time.
- Personal Dictionary
- Teach it a spelling once. Add replacements that fire every time, for the words it keeps getting wrong.
- Automatic vocabulary
- The words already in your brain bias the transcript. Nothing to configure.
- “fern way”
- Fernwayyour project
- “at less”
- Atlasyour project
- “pre ya rahman”
- Priya Ramanmet on Tuesday
- “acme”
- Acme Corpyour replacement
It writes the way you were about to.
MAI reads the shape of what you said and the app you said it in. A rambling thought becomes paragraphs. A list becomes a list. Something dictated into Mail comes out as an email — greeting, body, sign-off — not a wall of transcript. Dictate into a terminal and it stays on one line, because that’s what a terminal wants.
It’s on screen before you need it.
MAI doesn’t wait to be opened. Most of what you do with it happens without a window.
Up next
Acme Q3 Kickoff
10:00 – 10:45
Today
- Send Priya the revised scope
- Confirm Fernway onboarding dates
- The menu bar
- Your next meeting counting down, a live focus timer, and a red dot while you're recording.
- An island under the notch
- Docked flush under the camera, floating over every app and every Space. Hover it to dictate, record or jot a note.
- Recent dictations
- The last few things you said, one click from pasting again.
- ⌘K, everything
- One palette across every note, meeting and task you've ever captured — keyword and meaning at once.
- Dictation history
- Every dictation, with the app you said it into, searchable and re-copyable.
- Apple Watch relay
- Speak into your wrist, and the text lands at your Mac's cursor.
- Voice memos on ⌃⇧Space
- A longer thought becomes a summarized entry with its tasks pulled out.
- Rebind any of it
- Every global shortcut is yours to change — including a single F-key for dictation.
The same second brain, on a screen bigger than your palm.
Everything you speak on the Mac is on your phone before you stand up — and the other way round. It’s one brain; the Mac is just the window with room in it.
- An AI notetaker that sits in your Meet, Zoom and Teams calls
- A daily Focus Brief, synthesized overnight from everything you captured
- Projects and folders that file new notes for you
- An Eisenhower matrix per project, drag-and-drop
- The Claude connector — ask Claude about your own week
On every device you own. See the whole thing →
What you should know before you download.
- Requirements
- macOS 14.6 or later. Runs natively on both Apple silicon and Intel.
- You need a MAI account
- Create one right in the app with your email — we send a 6-digit code, there’s no password to pick. Already use MAI on iPhone? Sign in with that address and everything’s already there.
- Dictation is a Premium feature
- New accounts get 7 days of everything, free. After that, Premium is bought on the web or in the iPhone app — not on the Mac.
- One permission
- Typing into other apps needs macOS Accessibility access. Without it, dictation copies to your clipboard instead.
- Signed and notarized by Apple
- It opens like any other app. No right-clicking, no Gatekeeper warnings, no Terminal commands.
Installing takes about a minute.
Open the download
Double-click MAI-Mac-latest.dmg in your Downloads folder.
Drag it across
A window opens with the app and an Applications folder. Drag one onto the other.
Launch it
Open it from Applications or Spotlight, then create your account or sign in with your email.
Questions,
answered.
Does dictation work in every app?
Does it work offline?
Do I need the iPhone app first?
What happens to my audio?
Which Macs does it run on?
Is it free?
Can I change the shortcut?
Stop typing what you could just say.
Something broken or confusing? It’s a young app and that’s worth knowing — tell me directly.