Local voice and text agent for macOS
Ablefor
Speak, edit, and deliver text privately.
Ablefor is a local-first, multilingual voice and text-agent app for macOS: dictate, review, clean, polish, translate, copy, insert, and read aloud with signed capability packs and no mandatory cloud. Your voice, drafts, and text operations stay on machines you control. Available now for macOS — Windows and Linux are coming soon.
3-day free trial, no card. Start with your email — your voice never leaves your Mac.
Why it's different
Local by architecture
Speech recognition and the local text agent run on your Mac when the required packs are installed. Dictated audio and text cleanup work locally, and core personal workflows do not require public-cloud processing.
Safe insertion
Dictate into many apps with safe insert where available and copy fallback everywhere. Risky destinations force review or copy, so the product does not pretend it can safely type anywhere.
Languages included, honestly
Official language capability packs are included — shown by honest quality tier: Recommended, Review advised, Experimental, or Custom pack recommended. A model card listing a language never becomes a support claim until we review or benchmark it. No per-language fees.
Speaker Focus
An optional on-device voice profile keeps dictation focused on you and flags nearby speakers. Recognition only — never cloning, never authentication.
Yours to keep
Buy a version and keep using it on your activated Mac — no subscription. Every maintenance and quality update we release for your version line is included. No per-minute fees, no word caps, no per-language or model-size charges, no metering of your own machine.
Organization-ready
Enterprise Private Deployment supports approved packs, policy controls, content-free audit, private registries, and disconnected deployment when contracted.
Everything included
- Dictate & insert with safe fallback
- Local text agent: Clean / Polish / Translate
- Read aloud
- Official language packs included
- Custom vocabulary
- Speaker Focus voice profile
- Pack Manager
- Content-free diagnostics
Available now: macOS 13+ (Apple silicon) · Enterprise: Private Deployment by contract
Honest terms, per product
This product ships with its own license, privacy, and refund schedules inside our site-wide policies — read exactly what applies before you buy.