Free · MIT · macOS terminal
Dictation that lives in the terminal.
The Rekody CLI is free, MIT-licensed voice dictation for your Mac: the same engine the Mac app ships. Hold ⌥ Space and speak. Let go, and the text lands at your cursor in any app.
$ rekody
✓ Sounds good, I will send the notes after standup. 54ms
0:07 listening
Fix the flaky test, then ship the release notes.
macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · no account · no telemetry
What you get
More than speech to text.
rekody
Streaming dictation
Words appear while you talk. Final text lands about 50ms after you release the key with the streaming engine; batch engines take 1 to 3 seconds.
rekody dictionary
Personal dictionary
Teach it your jargon, names, and product terms. The cleanup model preserves them verbatim.
snippets.toml
Spoken snippets
Map trigger phrases to saved text. Say a trigger like slash sig and the stored expansion lands in its place.
rekody history -i
Searchable history
An interactive browser for past dictations. Search text, filter by app, copy any entry to the clipboard.
rekody doctor
Doctor and self update
Checks your mic and every configured engine end to end. Updates install with one command.
rekody fix
Your own training set
Each dictation can save lossless audio plus transcript locally, ready to fine-tune a model on your voice. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Get set up
Two ways in.
Read the docs, or give your coding agent live access to them.
For your coding agent
Add Rekody's docs as an MCP server
Your agent can then query Rekody's docs live, straight from the source.
Claude Code
Cursor or any MCP client
In Cursor, add it to mcp.json as a server with this url.
No MCP? Hand it the setup prompt
Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, or any coding agent and it installs Rekody for you, from the live llms-full.txt.
The CLI is the whole dictation engine, six Rust crates under MIT. Small enough to read in an afternoon.