For Mac · lives in your notch

Say it. It's written.

Dictate into any app, ask a question, take a note, or tell your Mac what to do. All from the notch, and your voice never leaves the building.

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No subscription · No account · Apple silicon, macOS 26 or later
How it works

Any app. One key. Talk.

If there's a cursor, Bolo can write there. Watch it make the rounds.

Bolo Notes
Ship onboarding copy
Book offsite venue
fn

Dictate

Hold fn and talk. Let go, and it's written in Slack.

Not a fn person? fn works too. Pick any key, or any combination.

Logos show apps Bolo works in and belong to their owners. Bolo isn't affiliated with these companies.

Speed

Say a paragraph while you'd type a sentence.

Same email, same moment. One person types it. The other has already hit send.

Writing the same email0:00
Typingabout 40 wpm
0words
Talking to Boloabout 150 wpm
0words

Stanford researchers found speech about 3× faster than typing on a phone (Ruan et al., 2016). Speeds shown are typical averages.

Cleanup

Talk the way you think.

Change your mind, ramble, start over. Bolo writes what you meant and quietly forgets the “um”.

You say

Every example is real output from Bolo's rules. Want paragraphs and tidier lists on top? Full clean-up runs on your Mac with Apple Intelligence.

Selection

Select anything. Say what you need.

Reply to it, summarise it, change its tone, translate it. With Apple Intelligence it runs on your Mac with no key at all, and nothing is replaced until you say so.

Esc to keep yours
Try saying Runs on your Mac with Apple Intelligence, or with your own AI · example results
Write for the app

Same words. Better manners.

Bolo knows where you're typing. Say it once, and it arrives as an email in Gmail, a message in Slack, and plain notes in Notion.

Email format
Casual
As spoken

Email and chat styles run on your Mac. Want it “more professional” or “more concise”? Those ask your AI, and only if you pick them.

Hey Bolo

Say what you want done.

Start with “Hey Bolo” and it does the thing instead of typing it. Rather call it something else, or hold a key and skip the pleasantries? Both are yours to set.

Screenshots“take a screenshot”, “screenshot this window”
Windows“minimize this”, “make it full screen”
Apps and web“open Notion”, “search for flights to Goa”
Typing“press enter”, “undo that”, “select all”
Music and sound“pause the music”, “volume up”
Your Mac“lock the screen”, “turn off the display”
ShortcutsSay any shortcut's name, like “focus for 25 minutes”

No AI guessing. Say “quit Slack” and only Slack quits, however tempting the alternatives. Nothing deletes files and nothing shuts down.

Languages

Speak any language. Type in yours.

English and 24 European languages work from the start. Add Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more, and Bolo hears which one you're speaking. Turn on Translate as you speak, and it types in the language you choose.

Translation runs on your Mac with the language packs built into macOS. A few languages, like Tamil and Bengali, aren't covered yet.

Privacy

Your voice never leaves your Mac.

Speech, cleanup, commands and translation all happen right here. No account, no analytics, nobody listening in. Including us.

Your Mac
MicrophoneOnly while you hold the key
SpeechRecognised on this Mac
CleanupRules, no AI
Your appTyped at the cursor
HistoryNotesWordsInsightsStored on this Mac
Your AI, only for AskWhen you ask a question, its text goes to the AI provider you picked. Never audio, and never your dictation.
0%CPU while Bolo waits
~70 MBof memory while idle
NoneAccounts or sign-ups
NoneAnalytics or trackers
Wi-FiTry turning it off
Bolo
On this Mac
Cloud dictation
Uploading
Make it yours

Light by default. Heavier only if you ask.

Every switch shows its weight before you flip it. The o fills as Bolo gets heavier. No surprise gigabytes.

Light
On disk630 MB
Finishes
Work while talking
Speech modelBigger hears better and takes more room.
Extra languagesHindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.+600 MB · heavier
Live wordsSee what Bolo hears, in the notch, as you talk.heavier while talking
Translate as you speakTypes in your language, whatever you speak.packs managed by macOS
Full clean-upParagraphs and lists, on your Mac.uses Apple Intelligence
Silence cutTrims pauses before transcribing.makes Bolo lighter

Whatever you turn on, Bolo uses no CPU while it waits. It's very good at waiting.

Memory

It remembers, so you don't have to.

Three keys save a thought. Add to it later, and every addition is stamped.

Follow up with Lena
  • Send the deck before Thursday's sync
  • Check 4 pm works for her
Added Thu 15 Oct, 10:24 PMAsk about the budget for travel
Insights

See how you talk.

Your pace, the words you didn't type and the time it saved. Worked out on your Mac from your own history, never uploaded.

Your speaking pace152words a minute3.8× faster than typing at 40
All time48,210words you didn't type
Time saved14 h 48 mincompared with typing
Longest streak12 daysin a row
Words, last 30 days
Where you talk
When you talkYou talk most around 10 am.
Why Bolo

Bolo moved into your notch. Eight apps moved out.

That strip of screen your camera was hogging anyway? It now dictates, answers, takes notes, translates, runs your Mac, holds files and flips your scroll wheel.

Rent for the notch: $0. Apps uninstalled: up to eight. Dock: noticeably calmer.

BoloTypical cloud dictation app
Words on the free plan∞No limitCapped each week
Paying for AIFree on your Mac, or bring a keyPriced into the subscription
Every monthNothing to payBilled again
Without internetKeeps workingStops
To startNo accountSign up first
Price

No subscription. No recurring cost.

There's no server listening to you, so there's no server bill to pass on.

Early access

The first 1,000 get Bolo free.

After that, it's one small payment, once. Never a subscription, never a word limit.

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Bring your own AI. Or don't.

With Apple Intelligence on, Ask, rewrites and clean-up run on your Mac, free and keyless. Want answers from the live web? Add a key from any of these, and only the text goes.

Google AI StudioFree key, ready in a minute. Web answers need a paid key.
GroqFree and very fast.
OpenRouterSome models are free.
OpenAIUses your OpenAI account.
Your own serverAny OpenAI-compatible address.
Kept in your Mac's Keychain
What does it cost?

Nothing for the first 1,000 copies. After that, Bolo is a small one-time payment, never a subscription. Speech is recognised on your Mac, so there's nothing running up a monthly bill, and there's no word limit.

Does Bolo listen all the time?

No. The microphone is on only while you hold the key, or while hands-free is on, and nothing listens in the background. “Hey Bolo” only counts at the start of a dictation.

Do I need an AI key?

No. With Apple Intelligence turned on, Ask, rewrites, replies and clean-up run on your Mac without one. A key adds fuller answers from the live web, and a free Google AI Studio key is enough.

Why does it ask for Accessibility access?

macOS requires it before any app can type into another app. Bolo uses it to put your words at the cursor and to carry out commands.

What do I need?

A Mac with Apple silicon on macOS 26 or later. The speech model is a one-time download of 220 to 630 MB, depending on the one you pick.

Give your keyboard the day off.

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