Hold Fn
Global capture starts without moving the cursor.
Free Mac dictation
Dictate into any Mac app without breaking focus.
Hold Fn, speak, release. ShoutOut listens locally and pastes into the field you were already using. No account, no subscription.
Focused app stays focused
Boom appears only while recording
Hold Fn. Speak. Paste.
Fn
speech
paste
How it works
Talk anywhere your cursor already is.
Hold a key, say the thing, and let ShoutOut put the text back into the app you were already using.
Speak
Free Apple Speech works out of the box. Pick the transcription backend you want in settings.
Transcribe
Clean text is prepared in the background.
Paste back
The focused field receives the result.
Works where you type
Messages, notes, editors, chats. Same shortcut everywhere.
No separate writing box. No app switching. ShoutOut stays out of the way until you need your voice.
running late?
On my way now.
ai
Found the diff. Updating release notes and checking the build.
me
summarize the changes and ship it
Follow up: packaging, permissions, first-run model download.
First run
Permissions should feel like a checklist, not a trap.
macOS keeps these user-controlled. ShoutOut should explain each one, route you to the right pane, and recover cleanly if a step is missing.
Download
Get ShoutOut for macOS.
A free Mac utility with no accounts, no subscription, and a checklist for the permissions macOS keeps in your control.
ShoutOut.dmg
Download for macOS
Available on macOS
Free macOS app. No account required.