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Your Mac listens.
Only your Mac.

Mundwerk is local dictation software with Whisper AI. Hold a key, speak, release — text appears at the cursor. Fully offline. Your voice never leaves your computer.

Coming soon — direct download

One-time purchase €8.99 — no subscription, no ongoing costs

“Your voice. Your Mac. No one else.”
“Kubernetes, Deployment, Pull Request — Mundwerk understands you.”
“Speaking is faster than typing.”
Features

What Mundwerk does

Dictation software that understands how you actually speak.

100% Offline & Private

No audio ever leaves your Mac. No internet connection, no account, no cloud upload. GDPR-compliant out of the box.

German + English, seamless

“Den Cluster deployen”, “ein Pull Request reviewen” — Mundwerk recognises German sentences with English technical terms without any switching.

Whisper AI with GPU power

OpenAI Whisper runs locally on your Mac with Metal GPU acceleration. Optimised for Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4).

Learns with you

Mundwerk remembers your corrections and vocabulary. The more you use it, the better recognition gets — tailored to you.

Visual feedback

A teal glow at the screen edge responds to your voice. Status indicators at the cursor and in the menu bar show the current state at a glance.

One-time purchase — no subscription

€8.99 once. No monthly fees, no in-app purchases, no hidden charges. Your software is yours.

How-to

How it works

Three steps. Zero configuration.

1

Press a key

Hold the Fn key or your freely configurable hotkey.

2

Speak

Speak naturally — German, English, or both mixed. The teal glow shows Mundwerk is listening.

3

Release

The transcribed text appears exactly where your cursor is. No copy, no paste.

Screenshots

Mundwerk in action

What Mundwerk looks like on your Mac.

Mundwerk dictates text in TextEdit — German-English sentence with Kubernetes and branch

Speak instead of type — dictation straight into the editor

Mundwerk listening — visual feedback during recording

Mundwerk listening — real-time visual feedback

German and English mixed: MySQL Database, Kubernetes, Branch

German & English seamless in one sentence

Correction window — Mundwerk learns from your edits

Mundwerk learns with you — the correction dialog

Mundwerk in Dark Mode — dark editor

Dark mode — follows your system

Corrections improve recognition — dark mode with correction dialog

Corrections improve recognition

Comparison

Why Mundwerk?

The honest comparison.

Feature Mundwerk Apple Dictation Superwhisper Cloud services
100% offline ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
German-English code-switching ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Adaptive vocabulary ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Visual voice feedback ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗
One-time purchase ✓ Free Subscription ~€80/year Subscription
Price €8.99 Free ~€80/year €10–17/month
Pricing

One price. Forever.

No subscription. No hidden costs. No in-app purchases.

€8.99

One-time purchase — lifetime updates included

  • Whisper AI with Metal GPU acceleration
  • 100% offline — no cloud upload
  • German + English seamless
  • Adaptive vocabulary
  • Visual voice feedback
  • Optimised for Apple Silicon
  • Menu bar app — always ready
Coming soon — direct download
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

No. Mundwerk runs entirely offline on your Mac. No audio is ever transmitted. You only need the internet for the one-time download of the app.
Mundwerk requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer and a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4).
Mundwerk automatically detects when you switch between German and English — even mid-sentence. There's nothing to toggle. Terms like “Kubernetes”, “Pull Request” or “Deployment” are recognised correctly.
Mundwerk remembers your corrections and builds a personal vocabulary over time. The more often you correct a word, the better the recognition gets for exactly that word.
No. Mundwerk is a one-time purchase for €8.99. No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no ongoing costs. All future updates are included.
Apple Dictation doesn't understand German-English code-switching, doesn't learn from your corrections, and offers no visual voice feedback. Mundwerk is purpose-built for everyday bilingual IT work.
Yes. Mundwerk inserts text wherever your cursor is — in any app, any text field, any editor. It works system-wide.