Vlow
Vlow / USE CASE · LOCAL DICTATION
A local-first dictation app for Mac.
Vlow runs speech recognition on your Mac. Press F2 anywhere, talk, and polished text is pasted at your cursor. Cloud AI polishing is there if you want it — and off if you don’t.
What “local-first” means here
Recognition happens on-device. If you turn on optional AI polishing, the recognised text is sent to a cloud model for polishing; otherwise Vlow uses the on-device result.
Fast enough to keep up
Measured: a 2-minute recording produced polished text about 1 second after stopping (Apple silicon).
More than dictation
Verbatim / Natural / Formal modes, Translate, Prompt and Commit modes, F3 voice rewrite, voice quick notes and voice calc.
How to
- Put your cursor in any text field
- Press F2 and talk — white text is confirmed, blue is still being recognised
- Stop, and polished text is pasted into the current app
MEASURED2-minute recording → polished text ~1 s after you stop (Apple silicon)
FAQ
What do I need?
A Mac with Apple silicon running macOS 14 or later.
Is it fully offline?
Vlow is local-first: recognition runs on your Mac, and AI polishing is optional and uses the cloud only when you turn it on.