Amical

An AI dictation app that formats speech for the active app, with offline Whisper and Ollama processing on macOS and Windows or optional cloud models.

Alternative to:

Wispr Flow

Amical is an AI dictation app for people who want to write emails, messages and coding prompts by speaking. It adjusts the resulting text to the app you're using, reducing the editing needed after transcription.

App-aware formatting: Adapt tone and formatting to the active app, with grammar corrections, pronoun fixes and contextual emojis.
Custom vocabulary: Help transcription recognize names, specialist terms and industry jargon, while adapting output to your writing style.
Multilingual dictation: Switch languages or mix them within the same spoken input.
Voice shortcuts: Use custom hotkeys, voice macros and workflows for repeated actions, with a floating widget for dictation controls.

The desktop app can run fully offline with Whisper for speech recognition and open source language models through Ollama for text processing. Local processing keeps dictation on your machine; optional cloud models process it remotely.

Amical is free and open source under the MIT license. The desktop app supports macOS and Windows, and separate mobile apps are available for iOS and Android. Local Whisper transcription on macOS requires macOS 15 or later. The desktop app doesn't support Linux.