Byblos

Byblos

Local voice-to-text. Private. Fast. Free.

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Why Byblos

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100% Local

Your voice never leaves your machine. No cloud, no accounts, no tracking.

AI-Powered

Local LLM cleans up your speech. Dictation modes for email, notes, code.

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Open Source

MIT licensed. Audit the code. Contribute. Free forever.

How It Works

1

Click the menu bar icon

2

Speak

3

Text appears in your app

Modes

CleanRemoves filler words and false starts
EmailFormats dictation as a ready-to-send email
NotesBullet points and structured notes
CodeDictate code with proper formatting
TranslateSpeak any language, output in English
AgentAI assistant — search files, read screen, control apps

Under the Hood

Byblos uses Whisper with CoreML for 3x faster speech recognition on Apple Silicon, and a local LLM via llama.cpp for intelligent text cleanup — all running on your machine with no network calls.

Licensing

Free for personal use. No limits, no nag screens, no feature restrictions. Use it forever.

If you use Byblos for work, at a company, or to generate revenue, a commercial license is required.

$49 / user / year

We don't enforce this technically — we trust you.

Commercial license purchase coming soon.