Diktator

Dictate.
Record all calls.
Remember everything.

Diktator records all your calls, automatically, by default. Every call is written up and filed on your Mac. Use it to dictate your emails too.

Don't type. Dictate.

It records only while auto-record is on and a call app has the mic. Every recording shows a red bar with Discard: press it, nothing is kept.

Download for Mac How it works

Free beta · Apple silicon, macOS 14.2 or later

A call comes in, your Mac writes it up, the note drops into the pile Upper left, a small laptop labelled Them shows a video call. One cable runs from its screen into a MacBook labelled You, with the app names set under the cable. The MacBook screen holds the real Diktator sidebar with a red Recording WhatsApp banner. Straight under the Mac, three pages sit in one tidy stack, each peeking above the next: the project page, the person page, and in front the call note with its summary and a small red FILED tag. Them You WhatsApp, Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime FILED Nothing is filed on their side.

Dictation, in the other sense

You will not remember this call.
It will remember itself.

A call starts. Diktator starts listening on its own. When the call ends it saves the transcript, writes the summary, and updates the pages of the person and the project. Your local model gets the whole history as context.

The sidebar with a red Recording WhatsApp banner, Discard and Stop and save buttons

For the record

You press nothing. You can always press Discard.

Zoom · Meet · Teams · FaceTime · WhatsApp · any tab

Who said what.

Your voice and theirs, kept apart. A summary on top. On speaker calls a few of their words can land under your name.

A call note: title, project and people chips, summary card, then the transcript as turns between Mateusz and Rosa Lindqvist

A file on everyone.

Every person gets a page. Every call adds a line to it.

A person page: name, alias chip, a context paragraph, and a Calls list with three calls

And on every project.

Who is on it, what was said, when.

A project page: context, three people chips, and four calls with dates and durations

It learns your words.

Names from your pages, plus the ones it keeps mishearing.

Custom vocabulary settings: a word and the spellings it was heard as

Local rule

Your Mac is the capital.

LOCAL BY DEFAULTRecording, transcription and write-ups run on your Mac.
CLOUD WHEN YOU WANT ITStronger transcripts or write-ups? Switch that step to a cloud model. Off until you say so.
YOUR FILESPlain Markdown in one folder you choose. Obsidian reads it. Delete the app; the files stay.

What leaves your Mac

Step by step.

Every step runs on your Mac until you switch it. Here is what goes out when you do, and what goes out anyway.

StepBy defaultIf you switch it onWhat goes out
DictationOn your Mac.ElevenLabs Scribe, with your key.The audio of that dictation.
Dictation cleanupOn your Mac.OpenRouter (Claude Haiku), with your key. It also cleans call transcripts.The transcript text.
Call recordingOn your Mac.No cloud option.Nothing.
Call transcriptionOn your Mac.ElevenLabs Scribe, with your key.The audio of both channels, yours and theirs. If Scribe fails, your Mac does it.
Speaker separationOn your Mac.With Scribe on, Scribe does it.The same audio. Nothing extra.
Calendar hintsOff. Your calendar is not read.Your Mac reads the event a call happens in, its title and who was invited, to spell names.Nothing by itself. With a cloud write-up, the title and names go with the transcript.
Write-upOn your Mac.OpenRouter (Claude), with your key.The transcript (first 60,000 characters), your library index, the pages of matching projects, your name, any note you wrote to correct the call, and, with calendar hints on, the event's title and invitee names.
Your notesPlain files in your folder. The app has no upload.Only what the write-up row lists.Nothing else.
Model downloadsSpeech models from Hugging Face on first use. The write-up model from Ollama's library at launch, if missing.The same.A request for the model files. No audio, no text.
UpdatesNothing. Automatic checks are off.Check for Updates asks diktator-app.vercel.app.A request for the feed file. No system profile.
LicensingNothing.Activate in Settings asks Lemon Squeezy.Your license key and this Mac's name.

The switches are in Settings, AI and Privacy. A cloud step needs a key of your own, kept in the Keychain. Then the provider's terms apply to what you sent.

It asks for the microphone, system audio and Accessibility for the dictation key, and for your calendar only if you turn on calendar hints. It touches that one folder, nothing else.

Beta

Free while it is in beta.

All of it, free during the beta. Ten calls filed; write to me for more.

Paid plans come later, after real people have used it.

Download for Mac

Questions

Before you press record.

Is this legal where I live?

Recording law varies by place; often everyone on the call must know. Tell them. The recording stays on your Mac unless you switch a cloud step on.

What does it need?

Apple silicon, macOS 14.2 or later. Nothing to install. The local model downloads itself the first time you open the app: a few GB, one time.

Which languages?

English and Polish daily. Most others work, detected per speaker.

iPhone?

Dictation later. Call capture never: iOS hides call audio from apps.