Spark

Private dictation and meeting notes for Mac

Dictation that never leaves your Mac.

Hold a key, speak, and your words appear in any app. In a call, Spark writes down who said what and sums it up. Everything is transcribed on your Mac, so your voice is never sent anywhere.

  • No cloud
  • Works offline
  • No telemetry
  • Transcripts stay on your Mac
Contact us How privacy works

Apple silicon Mac, macOS 15.6 or later. Available now for teams through Enterprise. Pro for individuals is coming soon. Already invited? Download for Mac.

Meeting companion

Your meetings, written down. On the Mac.

Start a meeting in Spark and take your call as usual. Spark listens to your microphone and the call's audio, and writes down the conversation as it happens. When the call ends, you get a transcript of who said what, and a summary.

  • Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or any other call app. No bot joins the call.
  • A live transcript in its own window while you talk, with your words and the call kept apart.
  • Each speaker labeled. Name a voice once and Spark recognizes it in the next meeting.
  • A summary with key points, decisions and action items, written on your Mac in the language of the meeting.
  • Private like dictation: recordings, transcripts and summaries never leave your Mac.

Export to Markdown or plain text, or copy it straight into your notes.

Privacy

Private by design, not by policy.

Most dictation and meeting tools upload your voice to a server to transcribe it. Spark has no server to send it to. Dictate client contracts or patient notes, record a board meeting or next quarter's planning call. It all stays on your Mac.

  • Dictation audio is processed in memory and discarded. Meeting recordings are saved only on your Mac, and you can delete the audio and keep the notes.
  • Transcripts and summaries live only on your Mac. Delete them any time.
  • No analytics. No telemetry.
  • Don't take our word for it: turn on airplane mode and dictate, or record a meeting.
Read the security and privacy overview
On the Mac
Microphonewhile the key is held
Parakeet modelCore ML, on‑device
Your apptext at the cursor

The only three network connections

  • Model downloadOnce per model, from Hugging Face
  • Sign-in and license checkYour email, a device identifier and the Mac's name
  • Update checksSpark's own update feed

None of them carry your voice or your words.

How it works

Hold, speak, release.

Spark lives in the menu bar. No window to switch to, nothing to set up per app.

  1. Hold

    Hold the shortcut

    by default, or any key or combination you choose. It doesn't type anything.

  2. Speak

    Speak

    A small bubble shows a live preview of your words. It never takes focus from your app.

  3. Release

    Release

    The text appears at your cursor, in the app you were using.

Works in every app

Email, chat, documents, tickets, CRM fields, code editors. If you can type there, you can dictate there.

Clipboard left alone

Your previous clipboard is restored, and clipboard managers don't record Spark's inserts.

Respects secure input

In password fields and Secure Keyboard Entry, Spark doesn't listen, and tells you why.

Silence is ignored

Tap the key by accident and say nothing, and nothing is inserted.

Models and languages

25 languages, recognized on the Mac.

Spark runs NVIDIA's Parakeet models locally on Core ML. Pick one in the app; it downloads once.

Parakeet v3

Default

25 European languages, detected automatically as you speak.

Languages
25, auto-detected
Text appears
On release
Download
~650 MB

Parakeet v2

English only, with the highest accuracy for English.

Languages
English
Best for
English accuracy
Download
~600 MB

Parakeet Realtime

English. Words are typed while you speak, with automatic punctuation.

Languages
English
Text appears
While you speak
Download
~224 MB

One app for a multilingual team.

Write to a client in French, then to a colleague in German, without changing a setting.

  • Bulgarian
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Maltese
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Ukrainian

Pricing

One app, two plans.

Enterprise when your organization rolls Spark out to a team, available now. Pro for yourself, coming soon.

Pro

For individuals

Coming soon

Everything Spark does, on your own Mac.

Coming soon

For individuals. Not available yet.

  • Dictation in every Mac app
  • Meeting transcripts with speakers and summaries
  • All speech and summary models
  • Private: runs on your Mac, works offline
  • Searchable history
  • Signed automatic updates

Enterprise

For organizations

Let's talk

Spark for your whole team, with access your organization controls.

Contact us

Tell us about your team and we'll reply by email.

  • Everything in Pro
  • Only people you invite can sign in
  • Work email and one-time code, no passwords
  • Remove people centrally
  • Help with security reviews and questionnaires

Security and privacy details for IT and legal

FAQ

Questions

Does my voice go to the cloud?

No. Speech recognition, speaker labels and meeting summaries all run on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded: dictation audio isn't even stored, and meeting recordings, transcripts and summaries are kept only on your Mac.

Spark goes online only to download models, check your subscription, and check for updates. None of these include audio or transcripts. See the full list.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Once a model is downloaded, dictation needs no connection. Your access is held in a signed pass on your Mac that stays valid offline until your subscription runs out, plus a 7-day grace period, and renews whenever you're online. Flights and long trips don't interrupt anything.

Does a bot join my meetings?

No. Spark records your microphone and the sound of the call on your Mac, so it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or any other call app, and nobody sees an extra participant. Many places require you to tell people when you record a conversation, so let them know you're taking notes.

Which apps does it work in?

Any Mac app with a text field: Mail, Slack, Teams, documents, tickets, CRM fields, code editors. No plugins or per-app setup. The one exception is password fields and other secure input, where Spark deliberately doesn't listen.

Which languages does it support?

The default model, Parakeet v3, covers 25 European languages and detects which one you're speaking. Meetings use it too, and the summary is written in the language of the meeting. Parakeet v2 and Parakeet Realtime are English only.

Which permissions does Spark need?

The microphone, and Accessibility to insert text into the app you're using and to detect your shortcut in other apps. The microphone is used only while you hold the shortcut, or during a meeting you start.

For meetings, Spark also asks to record system audio, to hear the call. Calendar access is optional: it fills in the meeting's title and who was invited.

How much does Spark cost?

Spark is available now for organizations. Contact us and we'll put together Enterprise pricing for your team.

Spark Pro for individuals is coming soon.

What Macs does it run on?

A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later), macOS 15.6 (Sequoia) or later, and any microphone. A dictation model takes about 1 GB of disk space; meeting notes need 3 to 4.5 GB more for speaker detection and the summary model.

Private dictation and meeting notes, set up in minutes.

Tell us about your team. Once you're invited: download Spark, allow the microphone and Accessibility, pick your shortcut, and speak.

Contact us Already invited? Download