Download
Download Lytly for free.
Voice typing for Windows, macOS and Linux, and the Lytly keyboard for Android. Nothing to sign up for.
Windows
BetaWindows 10 or later, 64-bit. A standard installer.
Windows may show a SmartScreen notice on first run. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
macOS
BetamacOS 11 Big Sur or later, Apple Silicon. A zipped app.
Unzip, drag Lytly to Applications, then allow the microphone and accessibility prompts.
Linux
BetaUbuntu 22.04 or later and most 64-bit distributions. An AppImage.
Mark the file executable, then run it.
Android
Coming soonAndroid 8.0 or later. A full keyboard with dictation built in, installed from an APK.
The signed build ships with the next release. This card links it the moment it is published.
Everything is in the free download.
Five minutes of dictation a day without an account. An email address raises that to thirty.
Dictation
- One hotkey in any app; hold to talk, toggle, or stop on silence
- Text lands at the cursor, in the app you were in
- Exact keeps every word, Clean tidies it, Translate lands it in the language you chose
- Spoken commands for punctuation and new lines
- A searchable history of your last dictations, kept on your computer
Languages
- English, French, Spanish, German, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese and Japanese
- Mix two in one sentence; each word comes back in its own script
- Right-to-left handled correctly for Hebrew
- A custom dictionary for names and product words
- The app itself in English, Hebrew and Russian
Privacy
- Audio is discarded before the request completes; never stored
- A receipt with the timestamps after every dictation
- No account needed for the anonymous tier
- Transcript history off by default; on, it is kept 14 days
- One button wipes everything Lytly keeps on your computer
What it needs.
- Desktop
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. macOS 11 or later on Apple Silicon. Linux on x86-64 with Ubuntu 22.04 or later, or a comparable distribution.
- Phone
- Android 8.0 or later, once the Android build is published.
- Disk and memory
- About 50 MB on disk. 2 GB of memory is enough.
- Microphone
- Any built-in or external microphone.
- Internet
- Required while you dictate. Audio is transcribed on our backend, then discarded.
Stuck on the install?
Tell us the platform and what you saw. Already installed? Press the hotkey in any app and start talking.