Common questions before installing.

The editions use separate licenses. The website's perpetual advanced license is activated with a license key. An App Store purchase is linked to your Apple Account.

The website version offers a convenient one-key dictation workflow on Mac: press your chosen key to start recording, then press the same key again to finish and insert the text into the active field. First, set up insertion through Accessibility in the app and grant the macOS permission. In the App Store version, automatic insertion requires starting dictation through a macOS Service with a configured keyboard shortcut.

One purchase of the advanced version in the App Store unlocks it on Mac, iPhone and iPad, with Family Sharing for your family.

No. Diktator adds its own dictation layer: preprocessing before recognition, pause-aware segmentation, context handling, spoken formatting, and postprocessing after recognition. The goal is usable writing, not just raw speech-to-text output.

No. Installing Diktator does not start the trial. Use the free version for as long as you like, then start the 21-day advanced trial yourself inside the app whenever you are ready.

After the trial, you can continue in Free mode with one model, without model selection and some advanced features.

No. With the included model, the free version has no limits on minutes, words, characters or sessions.

No. The 13 languages listed are the app’s interface languages. Dictation and translation support additional languages; availability and quality depend on the selected model and settings.

No. Dictated audio and recognized text are processed locally on your Mac. They are not sent online or shared with anyone unless you choose to send the resulting text somewhere yourself.

The recommended path is inside Diktator after installation or trial. The website also provides secure checkout and license recovery for an existing installation.

Website licenses and Apple in-app purchases are separate. After purchase verification, website buyers can request an App Store promo code, and App Store buyers can request a website promo code.

One direct Pro license supports up to three simultaneously active Macs. Deactivate an old Mac before using its activation place on a replacement Mac.

Yes. After the required local model is installed, dictation works offline.

Diktator is not specifically designed as a meeting recorder, but it can record and transcribe meetings.

Download Diktator from this website. It is signed, notarized, and requires an Apple silicon Mac running macOS 26 or later.

Translate speech from the broad supported source-language catalog into a selected target language. Availability and quality depend on the language pair, model, and translation method. Local-model translation is experimental; review important results.

Try several models and keep the one that works best for your language pair. Different models can produce different results for the same source and target languages, especially with rare-language pairs.

Translation with the local speech model stays on your Mac. Apple Translation is local only when the required language resources are downloaded and On-Device Mode is enabled in macOS; otherwise Apple may translate online.