Offline · Private · One-time
Launching soon · built in the open
Offline voice typing.
Pay once. Use forever.
Fully offline, privacy-first voice typing for your desktop. Press a shortcut, speak, and your words appear in any app — Word, Slack, your browser, your IDE. Your voice never leaves your machine. No subscription, no cloud, no account.
$9.99 once — One-time — less than a month of Wispr, and yours forever. (Wispr Flow is ~$180/yr, every year.)
7-day free trial. No credit card. Full features.
Windows 10 and 11 today · macOS and Linux planned.
Press the shortcut → speak → text lands where your cursor is.
- Offline Works with no internet. The model is built into the app.
- Private Your audio and transcripts never leave your machine.
- One-time Buy once, own it. Lifetime updates.
- No account No sign-up, no telemetry, no tracking. Install and dictate.
What it does
Everything is on your machine. Nothing phones home.
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Type with your voice, anywhere
A global shortcut turns speech into text in any app — editor, browser, chat, email.
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100% on-device
Whisper speech recognition runs locally. Your audio and transcripts never leave your machine.
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Polished or Live
Polished types your whole phrase cleaned up; Live types as you speak.
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Your words, learned
A personal Dictionary fixes names, jargon, and acronyms — and nudges recognition toward your terms.
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Snippets
Say a short phrase to drop in a saved block — a signature, an address, a canned reply.
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VaakPad
A built-in voice notepad — dictate a quick thought when you don't have another app open.
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Calm by design
A quiet pill that appears, types, and vanishes. No streak nags, no interruptions.
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Your Voice
Optional, on-device-only stats: words dictated, time saved, a quiet activity heatmap.
Privacy by architecture
Nothing leaves your machine. There is nothing to take.
VaakApp doesn't promise privacy with a policy you have to trust. The speech model is built into the app and runs on your own processor, so your voice physically cannot be uploaded — there is no server to send it to.
How this actually works- Your voice never leaves your device.
- Speech-to-text runs 100% on-device — no cloud transcription, ever.
- No account, no telemetry, no analytics, no tracking.
- Works fully offline, forever. The only network calls are ones you start (an optional model download or a license/update check).
How it's different
Honest about the trade-offs.
Cloud dictation (subscription)
Streams your voice to a server and bills you every year. VaakApp transcribes on-device and costs one payment.
Built-in Windows voice typing
Free, but tied to one input box and inconsistent across apps. VaakApp types into any app, with a personal Dictionary and Snippets.
Heavyweight desktop dictation
Powerful but expensive and complex to set up. VaakApp is one shortcut, one binary, nothing to configure to start.
See the full breakdown: VaakApp vs Wispr Flow →
Pricing
One price. No subscription. Yours forever.
One-time — less than a month of Wispr, and yours forever.
VaakApp
Buy once. Type with your voice, forever.
Launch price — rises to $19.99, then $29.99.
One-time — less than a month of Wispr, and yours forever.
Founding offer: If VaakApp earns it, an honest review + a repost on X is how you pay it forward.
- 2 devices included
- Lifetime updates
- 7-day free trial. No credit card. Full features.
- 14-day, no-questions-asked refund.
Available at launch — follow @vaakapp for the drop.
Everything included
- Type with your voice, anywhere
- 100% on-device
- Polished or Live
- Your words, learned
- Snippets
- VaakPad
- Calm by design
- Your Voice
FAQ
Questions, answered
Is there an offline voice typing app for Windows?
Yes. VaakApp is fully offline voice typing for Windows 10 and 11. Speech recognition runs entirely on your device using a built-in Whisper model, so you can dictate with no internet connection at all. Press a global shortcut, speak, and your words are typed into whatever app you're using.
Does voice typing send my voice to the cloud?
With VaakApp, no. Your audio and transcripts never leave your machine — speech-to-text runs 100% on-device, with no cloud transcription, no account, and no telemetry. Most cloud dictation tools stream your microphone to a server; VaakApp processes everything locally by design, not just by policy.
Is VaakApp a subscription?
No. VaakApp is a one-time purchase of $9.99 with lifetime updates — buy it once and use it forever. One-time — less than a month of Wispr, and yours forever. There is no recurring fee, no account, and no card required to try it.
How much does VaakApp cost?
VaakApp is $9.99 as a one-time purchase (launch offer; regular price $29.99), including lifetime updates and 2 device activations. It's a one-time price that genuinely rises over time: $9.99 now, then $19.99, then $29.99 — so the crossed-out $29.99 is the real price you're saving against, not a fake anchor. 7-day free trial. No credit card. Full features. 14-day, no-questions-asked refund.
Can I try VaakApp before buying?
Yes. 7-day free trial. No credit card. Full features. You get the full feature set during the trial with no watermark and no credit card. If you buy and change your mind, there's a 14-day, no-questions-asked refund.
Why is VaakApp only $9.99 right now?
$9.99 is the founding offer for early supporters — the lowest the price will ever be. As VaakApp grows, the one-time price rises honestly to $19.99, then to its standing price of $29.99; the crossed-out $29.99 is that real price, not a fabricated discount. If VaakApp earns it, an honest review + a repost on X is how you pay it forward. It's a request, never a requirement — the $9.99 price stands on its own.
What are the system requirements?
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). ~250 MB disk. Works fully offline. VaakApp runs on Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit). macOS and Linux are on the roadmap but not in this version.
Which apps can I dictate into?
Any app that accepts keyboard input. A global shortcut turns your speech into text wherever your cursor is — a Word document, a browser field, Slack, your email client, or your code editor. There's also a built-in VaakPad (voice notepad) for when no other app is open.
Does it collect any analytics or tracking data?
No account, no telemetry, no analytics, no tracking — not in the app, and not on this website (no tracking cookies). The only network calls VaakApp ever makes are ones you start: an optional model download, or a license/update check.
Press a shortcut. Speak. Your words appear.
Try VaakApp free for seven days. No card, no account, no cloud.