Rhino Voice

Free download · Apple silicon Macs · macOS 14+

Talk instead of typing.Free, and nothing leaves your Mac.

Hold one key, say it, let go. Your words show up in any app: email, Slack, docs, ChatGPT. It's fast, it learns your names, and it saves hours of typing. Nothing goes to the cloud, so it works even with Wi-Fi off.

Download Rhino free

Needs a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 14+. Check: Apple menu > About This Mac > Chip.

Free: unlimited for your first week, then 2,000 words a week.
Unlimited: invite 2 friends or pay $20 once. No subscription, no account.

Launch update
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Release Fn to insert
Processed on this Mac

Three keys, one sentence

  1. Hold Fn

    Anywhere on your Mac: an email, a doc, Slack, a terminal, a prompt box. Rhino does not need to be the front-most app.

  2. Talk normally

    Ramble. Change your mind mid-sentence. Say the name of that client you can never spell. Rhino is built for how people actually speak.

  3. Release

    Your words land at your cursor, punctuated and capitalized. Turn on AI cleanup and the ums and false starts go too. No window to switch to, no paste step.

What you get

Nothing goes to the cloud

Your voice is turned into text on your Mac, and the AI cleanup runs there too. There is no cloud model to switch on, no account, and no tracking. Turn off Wi-Fi and dictation still works.

It learns how you spell things

Teach Rhino the names, products and jargon you say fifty times a day. Add them to your dictionary once and they stop coming back misspelled.

Verbatim where it matters

Dictate into Claude, ChatGPT or a terminal and Rhino skips its cleanup pass automatically, so an instruction meant for the assistant arrives exactly as you said it.

Turn recordings into text

Drop an audio file or an MP4 video into Rhino and get a transcript, made on your Mac. Podcasts, voice memos, interviews, videos you recorded.

History you control

Everything you've said is saved on your Mac, searchable and ready to copy again. Or switch history off entirely and keep nothing. Your history is never locked, even on the free plan.

Free to start

Unlimited for your first week, then 2,000 words a week, free forever. Want unlimited? Invite 2 friends, or pay $20 once: unlimited Macs, lifetime updates, no renewal.

How Rhino Voice compares

Most dictation apps send your audio to a server and bill you monthly. Apple's built-in dictation keeps it local but transcribes you literally. Rhino is the third option.

Rhino Voice vs cloud dictation apps vs Apple Dictation
 Rhino VoiceCloud appsApple Dictation
Where your voice is processedOn your MacOn their serversOn your Mac
CostFree, or $20 once for unlimited$8–$15 per monthFree
Works with Wi-Fi offYesNoYes
Removes filler words and false startsYesYesNo
Account requiredNoYesNo

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Questions

Does my voice or my text leave my Mac?
No. Audio, transcripts, history and the AI cleanup pass all stay on your Mac. Rhino only reaches the network to check for signed app updates and to download speech models you explicitly ask for.
Does Rhino work offline?
Yes. Once you have downloaded a speech model, dictation and cleanup both work with the network off: on a plane, on hotel Wi-Fi you do not trust, or with the machine air-gapped.
What are the system requirements?
An Apple silicon Mac running macOS 14 or later. Intel Macs are not supported, because the on-device speech and cleanup models need Apple silicon to run fast enough to be worth using.
Which apps does Rhino work with?
Any Mac app that accepts text. Rhino inserts at your cursor wherever it happens to be: mail clients, browsers, editors, Slack, terminals. It needs Microphone and Accessibility permissions to do that.
How is this different from Wispr Flow?
Wispr Flow processes your speech in its cloud on a $15/month subscription and runs on Mac, Windows and mobile. Rhino Voice processes everything on your own Mac, works offline, is free to start ($20 once for unlimited), and is Mac-only. If you need dictation on your phone or a Windows PC too, Wispr Flow is the better pick.
How is this different from the dictation built into macOS?
Apple's dictation also runs on-device, so it solves the privacy question too. What it does not do is clean up how people speak. It transcribes you literally, ums and false starts included. Rhino Voice runs a local AI pass that turns what you said into the sentence you meant.
Is Rhino free?
Yes. Download it and dictate as much as you like for your first week. After that you get 2,000 words a week free, every week, forever. If you dictate more than that, you can unlock unlimited by inviting 2 friends, or pay $20 once, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Your history is never locked either way.
Does it work in other languages?
Yes. The default model is tuned for English, so for other languages switch to Parakeet v3 (25 European languages) or a Whisper model (dozens of languages) in Settings. People use Rhino in Polish, Danish, German and Italian. If you switch between two languages, auto-detect sometimes types the wrong one, so picking your language in Settings works best.
Can I delete my dictation history?
Yes. History lives on your Mac. You can delete individual recordings, clear all of it, set a retention limit, or turn history off so nothing is stored in the first place.

Stop typing what you could have said.

Free to start. Unlimited: invite 2 friends or pay $20 once. No subscription, no account, nothing sent to the cloud.

30-day money-back guarantee. Or download free first.