Features

Choose how Waffle transcribes and edits your words. All processing runs on your Mac.

A small overlay
while you speak.

The recording panel stays above your work without taking the text cursor. Hover to see the timer and finish or cancel the recording.

Choose Classic or Prismatic appearance, with compact and live-transcript layouts.

Start dictating
Waffle’s animated Prismatic overlay with a live transcript

Writing styles by app.

Give each app or website its own writing style. Waffle picks the matching style when you start dictating.

  • Set tone, cleanup strength, and custom instructions.
  • Control fillers, grammar, paragraphs, and lists.
  • Switch styles with a hot key.
Configure writing styles
Waffle’s cleanup and tone controls, automatic app matching, and the beginning of its saved writing styles

Custom vocabulary
and corrections.

Save names and technical terms with your preferred spelling. Add exact replacements for recurring mistakes.

Set up vocabulary
Waffle Vocabulary with twelve configured terms and corrections including x code to Xcode and type script to TypeScript

Spoken text shortcuts.

Say “my sign off” and insert your full signature. Turn phrases into email addresses, meeting follow-ups, or multiline snippets.

Set up spoken shortcuts
Waffle Shortcuts configured with an email address, Alex Morgan’s multiline sign-off, a meeting follow-up and a design review checklist

Choose a speech model.

Apple Dictation shows live text as you speak. Parakeet transcribes after you finish recording.

  • Apple Dictation with vocabulary hints.
  • Parakeet Multilingual for 25 European languages.
  • Parakeet English for English-only dictation.
  • Optional English vocabulary add-on for Parakeet.
Choose a speech model
Waffle Models showing Apple Dictation, installed Parakeet Multilingual, Parakeet English available to download, and the Vocabulary Add-on

Controls for daily use.

Playground

Try different models, tones, and cleanup settings. Compare the original and result side by side, then save the settings you like.

Review before pasting

Edit the result and compare it with the original before pasting. You can also skip cleanup with Use Original Now.

History and statistics

Opt in to keep your last 100 transcripts for search, copying, and review. Track word count, speaking time, and pace separately, without saving transcripts.

Optional settings sync

Sync vocabulary, corrections, styles, and snippets through iCloud. Recordings, transcripts, and statistics stay on your Mac.

Cleanup and tone changes require Apple Intelligence. Vocabulary and shortcuts work with every speech model. Model and language downloads need an internet connection.