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Dimmy

Speak instead of typing. Native voice dictation for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and macOS
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Dimmy is a speech-to-text program, available on Windows and macOS.

Features described in its GitHub repository, on its official website and in its Winget manifest: voice input and commands, local model execution.

Services and protocols mentioned: OpenAI and Gemini.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Dictate clean text anywhere, run voice commands that edit in place, and turn meetings into structured recaps.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Native voice dictation for Windows, macOS, and Linux.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Native, and offline when you choose local models.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Dimmy is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (AGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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