Your voice never leaves your Mac. Even when AI polishes it.
BOL is the first dictation app where transcription and AI cleanup both run 100% on-device. No cloud. No tokens. No tradeoffs.
macOS available now · Windows, iOS, and Android coming
- App Sandbox
- Apple Silicon native
- Local Whisper
- On-device AI
Transcribed locally
The model runs entirely on my Mac — no audio leaves the device.
100% local Whisper transcription
Apple Silicon Metal + Neural Engine. The model runs on your Mac, never a server.
AI cleanup via Apple Foundation Models
On-device, free, private. The same models that power Apple Intelligence — no API keys, no costs.
Optional BYOK for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google
When you want a frontier cloud model, you provide the key. We never see it.
Your audio never leaves your device. Apple-sandboxed. Notarized.
Free for 2,000 words/month. Pay only if you speak more.
macOS, Windows, iOS, Android. One engine. One model. One you.
Built to be quicker than your fingers.
No round-trips to a GPU farm. Whisper runs on your Mac's Neural Engine, decoded chunk-by-chunk so you see words appear as you speak them.
transcription on Apple M4 with CoreML acceleration
Real-time factor — we transcribe 12× faster than you can speak
Verifiable in 30 seconds with Activity Monitor
Watch your audio never leave the device.
Other dictation apps ask you to trust them. BOL is built so you don't have to. Open Activity Monitor while you speak — you'll see zero network traffic from the BOL process. The model runs entirely on your CPU and Neural Engine.
- Apple App Sandbox — no outgoing network entitlement.
- Notarized binary — verified by Apple at install time.
- Local-only transcripts — history lives on your disk, encrypted by the OS.
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The honest table.
No hand-wavy marketing claims. What we ship, what they ship, side by side.
| Feature | BOL | Blip AI | Wispr Flow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verifiable on-device | Apple sandbox | marketing claim | cloud |
| iOS keyboard | coming soon | — | basic |
| Android | coming soon | — | — |
| Transcript history | |||
| Custom vocabulary | |||
| Price | $12/mo OR $99/yr | $12/mo | $15/mo |
Try free. Pay only if you speak a lot.
Start here. No sign-up required.
- 2,000 words per month
- Full on-device privacy
- Multilingual transcription
- Transcript history
For people who talk to their computer all day.
- Unlimited words
- Unlimited devices
- Custom vocabulary
- Priority support