So we built the tool we wanted to use. Offline. Private. Yours forever.
We are a small team of AI researchers, software engineers, web designers, and graphic designers. Between us, we have spent decades building products across every layer of the stack: from low-level systems programming to consumer-facing interfaces, from machine learning pipelines to brand identity systems.
We are not a venture-backed startup chasing a valuation. We are builders who make tools because we use them ourselves, and because we believe good software should not come with strings attached.
We built SimplyTalk because two trends in the software industry crossed a line we could not ignore.
Every major dictation tool on the market sends your voice to a cloud server. Your words are processed by software you do not control, on hardware you cannot inspect, under privacy policies that change without notice.
We watched OpenAI employees get caught reviewing private conversations. We watched Amazon contractors listening to Alexa recordings in people's bedrooms. We watched Google, Microsoft, and Zoom all get exposed for the same pattern.
For speech-to-text, this is not an inconvenience. It is a fundamental design failure. Your unfiltered spoken thoughts are the most private data you produce. Routing them through someone else's server is reckless, and the industry treats it as standard practice.
Software used to be something you bought. A disc, a license key, a box on a shelf. You paid once and it was yours. That model is nearly extinct.
Today, tools that run entirely on your hardware still charge $10, $20, $30 per month, forever. Not because the software requires ongoing infrastructure, but because recurring revenue makes companies more valuable to investors.
You are not paying for a service. You are renting access to something that could run on your machine without any connection at all. We believe that is wrong, and we built SimplyTalk to prove there is a better way.
A privacy policy is a document that can change at any time. Architecture is structural. If the software never connects to a server, no policy change can retroactively make it collect your data. We chose architecture.
If software runs on your machine, processes your data locally, and requires no server, there is no honest reason to charge you monthly. Pay once. Own it. Use it as long as you want.
Hold a key. Speak. Release. Text appears. That is the entire product. No accounts, no dashboards, no onboarding flows, no upsell modals. Software that does one thing exceptionally well and stays out of your way.
We do not have a board of directors, a growth team, or a monetization strategy meeting. We have engineers who use the product every day and fix what bothers them. That is the entire feedback loop.
Desktop dictation that runs 100% offline, costs $289 once, and never sends a single byte of your data anywhere. Built by people who use it every day.
Try it free for 7 days. No credit card. No cloud. No strings.
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