The voice bundle
for your computer.

Start the 14-day free trial on parlohub.com (Monthly is free for 14 days, and cancelling before then means no charge), then download Parlo, drag it into Applications and open it. Setup walks you through the microphone, keyboard and accessibility permissions and downloads the on-device models once (a couple of GB). After that, hold fn in any app and talk. Parlo needs macOS 15 or later on an Apple Silicon Mac.

Yes. Parlo's dictation (fn by default) and voice commands (fn + ctrl by default) can each use any shortcut you like, set in Settings → General: a modifier on its own or combined (Right ⌥, fn ⇧) or a key with modifiers (⌥ Space, F5). Each can also have a second shortcut, handy on an external keyboard without an fn key.

Speech recognition, dictation and voice commands run on-device and work with Wi-Fi off after a one-time model download; your audio never leaves the Mac. Meeting notes are your choice: Parlo Cloud (the recommended default, included with your plan) sends the transcript text to Parlo's relay to write the notes and needs a connection, while the on-device option writes them locally and works offline. Searching your files, notes, email and calendar also stays on the Mac and works offline. Two other things send text, never audio: factual questions (“exchange rate USD→EUR”) query keyless public sources, and Polish opens the transcript in your own ChatGPT or Claude.

Yes. Parlo's dictation removes fillers and false starts, inserts spoken punctuation, and applies spoken self-corrections automatically (“meet at 2, actually 3” → “meet at 3”), in any macOS app. Since 0.1.37 it also fits what you say to the text around your cursor: it continues a sentence in lowercase, capitalizes a new one, adds the space between back-to-back dictations and drops the stray period when you dictate into the middle of a sentence. Names keep their capitals. All of it is processed on-device, without an extra wait.

Act is Parlo's voice-command mode (currently in alpha). It handles app switching (“open Slack”, “switch to Finder”), reminders (“call the vet tomorrow at 9”), file operations (“copy report.pdf to the desktop”), quick math or lookups (“what's 15% of 200”, “capital of Peru”), since 0.1.37 searching your own Mac: files, Apple Notes, your Mail inbox and your calendar (“find the lease PDF from last month”, “what's on my calendar tomorrow?”), and since 0.1.38 your recorded meetings (“open my last meeting”, “draft a follow-up for my last meeting”). Anything destructive asks for confirmation before it runs.

Yes, since Parlo 0.1.37. Hold the Act shortcut (fn + ctrl by default) and ask: “find the lease PDF from last month” searches your files through Spotlight, including the text inside documents, filtered by type (PDF, image, screenshot, spreadsheet, presentation, folder) and by dates like “today” or “last week”. “Search my notes for wifi” searches Apple Notes. “Find emails from Ana about the contract” searches the inbox of the Mail app by sender and subject. “What's on my calendar tomorrow?” or “what's my next meeting?” lists your events, with a Join button for calls. Results appear as a list in the notch; click one to open it. Everything is read-only and runs on your Mac: nothing is uploaded and it works offline. It needs macOS 15 or later (no macOS 27 required) and asks the first time for access to Notes, Mail or your calendar. Mail search covers Apple Mail, not Gmail or Outlook in a browser.

Parlo Cloud is the hosted notes option, included with every plan (monthly and Founder) with no API key to manage. When a recording ends, Parlo sends the transcript text, the meeting's title and times, the speaker names in the transcript and the attendee names from the calendar invite to Parlo's relay, which passes them to a hosted model and streams the notes back. Never the audio. The relay stores no transcript, metadata or notes; it keeps only a per-day count of calls against a salted hash of your license. The model provider's standard API terms apply (no training, deleted within 30 days). You choose Parlo Cloud or on-device at setup, can switch any time in Settings → Meetings, and the Meetings window shows which one wrote each meeting's notes. If your Mac sleeps or goes offline during a run, Parlo waits and finishes with Parlo Cloud once it's back online; if it stays offline, you get on-device notes first, replaced by the Parlo Cloud version when you reconnect, unless you've edited them. Any other failure falls back to on-device and tells you. Since 0.1.38 Parlo Cloud can also draft a meeting's follow-up: then it sends the meeting's notes (not the transcript), its title and date and the recipients' names, never their email addresses, and stores nothing.

Parlo detects a call is happening (calendar invite or sustained mic activity), offers to record, then captures your mic and the system audio locally — no bot joins the meeting. It also notices when the call ends and offers to stop the recording, so it doesn't keep running after you hang up. When you stop, it transcribes on your Mac, names speakers from the calendar invite where there is one, and writes the transcript and structured notes to a folder on your Mac. The notes themselves come from Parlo Cloud (included, transcript text only, nothing stored) or from the on-device model, whichever you picked at setup; the audio never leaves your Mac either way. Two more options exist: Polish opens the transcript in ChatGPT or Claude with a ready-made prompt, and you can use your own OpenAI, Anthropic or OpenAI-compatible key instead of Parlo Cloud. If a cloud run fails, Parlo falls back to the on-device model — notes are never missing.

Yes, since Parlo 0.1.38. Click Follow-up on a meeting in the Parlo window, choose Draft Follow-up… in the menu bar menu, or hold the Act shortcut and say “draft a follow-up for my last meeting”. For a one-on-one, Parlo writes a short email to the other person with what you agreed and both sides' next steps; for a team meeting, a recap with decisions, action items and open questions. It's written from the meeting's notes by whatever writes your notes (Parlo Cloud, your own API key, or the on-device model), and the recipients come from the calendar invite. You can edit everything, then copy it or open it in Mail. Parlo never sends anything for you.

Yes. Parlo can publish each meeting's notes, transcript, and metadata (never the audio) to a folder you pick — your iCloud Drive, a network share, or natively to Google Drive (My Drive or a Workspace Shared Drive, as a real Google Doc or markdown). Turn it on in Settings → Meetings, share that folder with your team once in the provider's own app, and everyone in it sees every meeting you share. Auto-share (optional, off by default) publishes each meeting as soon as its notes are ready. Google Drive access is scoped to only the files Parlo creates — it can't see or touch anything else in your Drive.

Settings → Models lets you choose between two on-device speech engines, picked by tradeoff rather than name: “More languages” (the default) covers almost any spoken language, and “Speed & accuracy” is faster and more accurate but covers 25 European languages — English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and 18 more. Pick whichever matches what you speak; you can switch anytime in Settings → Models.

Now: dictation, meeting notes with follow-up drafts, and voice commands in one Mac app, including voice search across your files, Apple Notes, Mail inbox, calendar and meeting notes. Next: more commands and app-aware actions. Later: sharper local models tuned from real usage, dictation on iPhone, and your phone as a capture remote. Alpha users steer all of it, and Parlo evolves around what they need.

Wispr Flow is cloud-based dictation — your audio is transcribed on a server. Superwhisper does dictation and meeting notes, with a local mode. Parlo keeps speech recognition on-device (audio never leaves the Mac) and bundles three things in one app: system-wide dictation, bot-free meeting notes, and voice commands that operate your Mac. Notes come from Parlo Cloud (included) or the on-device model, your choice, with your own API key as a further option. Parlo runs on macOS 15 and later. Pricing is $8/month with a 14-day free trial, or $80 lifetime for the first 100 users — versus roughly $15/month for Wispr Flow and $8.49/month or $249.99 lifetime for Superwhisper.

Yes. Companies can get Parlo for a whole team through the form at parlohub.com/teams, with the company name and how many people need it. Team plans are set up by hand for now: Parlo activates a license for each person's work email, so nobody has to go through checkout, and pricing depends on team size. Each person gets everything in the Monthly plan, Parlo Cloud meeting notes included. Speech recognition and dictation run on each Mac, so the audio never leaves it. Teams with strict data policies can keep meeting notes fully on-device too, and notes can be shared to a Google Workspace Shared Drive or a network folder.

Yes, for approved organizations. Registered charities, nonprofits and NGOs can apply to use Parlo for free through the form at parlohub.com/teams, with the organization's name, country, registration or charity number if it has one, website, what it does, and how many people would use Parlo. Every request is reviewed by hand and decided case by case. Approved organizations get free licenses for the people who will use Parlo, activated by email, with everything in the Monthly plan included.