Halopen

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Halopen is a native Mac dictation app that lives in the menu bar. Hold a key, speak, release, and the text lands in whatever field your cursor is in: mail, chat, docs, a code editor, a terminal, Claude Code or Cursor. Its default is Verbatim: it types what you said. In a test of 10 everyday phrases a cleanup model tends to "fix" ("me and him went", "we was running late"), it changed none of them. When you want polish, cleanup is a setting you choose per app, and you can see what it changed. It transcribes in the cloud or on your Mac (Apple Silicon), keeps a local log of its transcription, cleanup, sign-in, licence and update calls, spells your names from a personal dictionary, and learns a name after you correct it once. Mac only, macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel. 14-day trial with no card, then $19 a month, $179 a year, or $499 once.