Hold fn, speak, and the text appears in any Mac app
HoldTalk is dictation for the Mac without a subscription. Hold the fn key, speak, and the text appears at the cursor in any app. Transcription runs on your Mac with Apple's speech engine, with a personal dictionary and a searchable history. 7 days of Pro free, then 2,000 free words a week or Pro once for 19 EUR during the launch.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Théo, a solo developer in Valencia. I built HoldTalk because I wanted the Wispr Flow gesture (hold a key, talk, the text appears) without sending my voice to a server or paying every month.
You hold fn, speak, and let go: the text is pasted where your cursor is, in any app. It runs on Apple's on-device speech engine in macOS 26, there's no account, and a personal dictionary fixes names and jargon after each dictation. It works in English, French and Spanish.
The launch price is 19 EUR, paid once, and it goes to 29 EUR later. Tell me what breaks, especially the apps where pasting fails and the words it gets wrong with your accent.
About HoldTalk on Product Hunt
“Hold fn, speak, and the text appears in any Mac app”
HoldTalk launched on Product Hunt on November 3rd, 2026 and earned 63 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #36 on the daily leaderboard. HoldTalk is dictation for the Mac without a subscription. Hold the fn key, speak, and the text appears at the cursor in any app. Transcription runs on your Mac with Apple's speech engine, with a personal dictionary and a searchable history. 7 days of Pro free, then 2,000 free words a week or Pro once for 19 EUR during the launch.
On the analytics side, HoldTalk competes within Mac, Productivity and Writing — topics that collectively have 827.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how HoldTalk performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted HoldTalk?
HoldTalk was hunted by Theo Belnou. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Theo Belnou
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Théo, a solo developer in Valencia. I built HoldTalk because I wanted the Wispr Flow gesture (hold a key, talk, the text appears) without sending my voice to a server or paying every month.
You hold fn, speak, and let go: the text is pasted where your cursor is, in any app. It runs on Apple's on-device speech engine in macOS 26, there's no account, and a personal dictionary fixes names and jargon after each dictation. It works in English, French and Spanish.
The launch price is 19 EUR, paid once, and it goes to 29 EUR later. Tell me what breaks, especially the apps where pasting fails and the words it gets wrong with your accent.