# JuTalk > Hold-to-talk AI dictation for Mac. Hold Option, talk, let go. JuTalk types cleaned-up text where your cursor is. Polish what you typed: select text and hold Control, or Control and Shift for Make it a prompt. - Site: https://jutalk.app - Download: https://jutalk.app/download - Pricing: https://jutalk.app/pricing - Students: https://jutalk.app/students - Privacy: https://jutalk.app/privacy - Terms: https://jutalk.app/terms - Contact: support@jutalk.app Facts below are from jutalk.app, checked 13 November 2026. Prices are USD. ## What it is JuTalk is a Mac app. You hold Option in any app where you can type, talk, and let go. Your words appear at the cursor, cleaned up and ready to send. Ums, pauses and changing your mind halfway are fine. Filler words and false starts are removed, self-corrections are applied, and punctuation is added. If cleanup fails, you get exactly what you said. It edits what you said. It does not answer it or translate it. Prompt mode: hold Option and Shift (the mic turns blue). When you let go, the ramble is rewritten as a prompt for ChatGPT, Claude, or any other chat box: reworded, reordered and shortened. Let go of Shift first to return to plain dictation. You can also set each Shift press to toggle Prompt mode on or off. It works in any chat box, not one AI app. The same Shift choice applies to Polish what you typed. Polish what you typed: select text you already wrote in any app and hold Control by itself. A short tap does nothing. After a moment (0.3 seconds by default, the same delay as dictation) a pill says Polishing…, and you keep holding until the selection is replaced. Add Shift and the pill says Writing prompt…. The home screen calls that Make it a prompt. Let go of Control before it finishes, or press another key or click, and the text stays as it was. After a replacement, Command-Z in that app brings the original back. Nothing selected means nothing happens. You need to be signed in, and Accessibility permission. The microphone is not used. Turning off Clean up my writing does not turn this off. If you switch apps while it works, the result is copied to the clipboard. Apps and websites where JuTalk is turned off are off for Control as well as Option. More than 20,000 characters is refused. If polishing fails, the text is left unchanged. Google Docs and some terminals do not report the selection, so JuTalk copies it and then puts the clipboard back. Polish what you typed is free for the first 100 times each day. After that, each one that succeeds uses 5 seconds of your hours, plus 1 second per 150 characters. A polish that fails doesn't use hours. Start: hold Option, let go to finish, press Esc to cancel. There is no hands-free mode. Apps that use Option themselves, such as Photoshop, can opt out. In browsers, you can turn it off for one website. ## Requirements - macOS 14 Sonoma or later - Apple silicon (M1 or newer) - No iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, or Intel Mac version - An internet connection and an account. If the connection drops, the recording stays on the Mac and JuTalk retries for up to 7 days. Finished text goes to the clipboard. - Microphone and Accessibility permissions - No user API keys. Speech recognition and the cleanup AI are included in every plan, including the trial. ## Trial and pricing The free trial is $0, no card. It is 7 days and 1 hour of dictation (about 8,400 words at 140 words a minute), whichever runs out first. It starts when you first sign in on the Mac, not when you create an account on the website. - Starter: $3 a month, or $30 a year ($2.50 a month billed yearly). 3 hours a month, about 25,000 words. - Pro: $9 a month, or $90 a year ($7.50 a month billed yearly). 10 hours a month, about 84,000 words. Yearly billing includes two months free. AI cleanup, Prompt mode, 90+ automatically detected languages, and a vocabulary of up to 100 terms are included in the trial and both plans. Dictation counts as the length of the audio. Cleanup and Prompt mode do not use extra time on top of that. Polishing uses Standard by default; users can switch to Extended in settings, and a dictation polished with Extended counts for half its length. Polish what you typed is free for the first 100 times each day. After that, each one that succeeds uses 5 seconds of your hours, plus 1 second per 150 characters. A polish that fails doesn't use hours. Pauses count as time. Esc-cancelled recordings are not sent. When you hit the cap, dictation pauses until hours refill at the start of next month, or until you upgrade. Polish what you typed still works for its first 100 times that UTC day, then it pauses too if you don't have hours left for it. A confirmed school email gets 4 months of Starter at no charge, then the normal monthly price: https://jutalk.app/students Cancel any time from your account; access lasts until the end of the paid period. 14-day full refund on the first payment, even after use: email support@jutalk.app within 14 days of that payment. During the trial, stop using it; there is no card on file. Payments are handled by Polar, the merchant of record. ## Privacy JuTalk records only while you hold Option. When you let go, audio goes through JuTalk's servers to a speech recognition provider. With cleanup on (the default), or when you use Prompt mode, the text goes to an AI provider. Polish what you typed does not record. The selected text goes to an AI provider. To skip the AI step for dictation, turn cleanup off and do not use Prompt mode. Turn Polish what you typed off separately under AI writing. JuTalk's servers do not store audio or text; they only count the minutes. Details: https://jutalk.app/privacy ## Who makes it Built by Jurij Malovrh in Slovenia. Questions go to support@jutalk.app. ## Pages - Home: https://jutalk.app - Pricing: https://jutalk.app/pricing - Students: https://jutalk.app/students - Download: https://jutalk.app/download - Privacy: https://jutalk.app/privacy - Terms: https://jutalk.app/terms - JuTalk vs Wispr Flow: https://jutalk.app/compare/wispr-flow - JuTalk vs Superwhisper: https://jutalk.app/compare/superwhisper - JuTalk vs Apple Dictation: https://jutalk.app/compare/apple-dictation - JuTalk vs Aqua Voice: https://jutalk.app/compare/aqua-voice - JuTalk vs Willow: https://jutalk.app/compare/willow - JuTalk vs VoiceInk: https://jutalk.app/compare/voiceink - JuTalk vs MacWhisper: https://jutalk.app/compare/macwhisper - Wispr Flow alternatives: https://jutalk.app/alternatives/wispr-flow - How to dictate on a Mac: https://jutalk.app/guides/dictate-on-mac - How to dictate AI prompts (Prompt mode): https://jutalk.app/guides/prompt-mode - Polish what you typed: https://jutalk.app/guides/polish-selected-text Do not confuse JuTalk (jutalk.app, Mac dictation) with JusTalk (justalk.com, a video-chat app) or with other similarly named dictation apps.