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Two installs. The return path is complete.

The Mac app holds dictation, meetings, screen capture, and the agent relay. The iPhone app captures wherever you are and lands it in the same library. Speech is transcribed on the device.

Download Talkie for Mac
v2.5.43 (Build 49) · Apple Silicon · 59.8 MB
macOS 26+ · Spec sheet ↓ · Direct mirror
Talkie on a MacBook with a matte cream lid on an orange field
LISTENING // PARAKEET-TDT-V3
"Draft a technical spec for the agent bridge..."
ON-DEVICE
Installs

Two ways in.

The Mac app is the one that dictates, records, and relays; it ships with the talkie command line. The iPhone app captures on the move and syncs into the same library.

macOS Desktop App

Apple Silicon (arm64)

Signed & Notarized

Hold your shortcut and speak into any text field, document, or terminal. Meetings, screen capture, and the agent relay run alongside it, on your machine.

brew install --cask arach/talkie/talkie
Download DMG Installer (v2.5.43)
59.8 MB
SHA-256 Checksum
cbb05f97df94850012502939fd2b6818adbc62562c0c057af50b44deb3ba5f4f

iOS & watchOS Companion

iPhone · iPad · Apple Watch

Free App

Capture a memo, a photo, or a scan wherever you are. Everything syncs to the Mac over iCloud and lands in the same library, with its context attached.

Get on App Store ↗
QR code linking to Talkie on the App Store
Scan to installtalkie.to/install
Requires
iOS 18.0 or later · watchOS 10.0 or later
Price
Free
Sync
iCloud, to the Mac relay
Speech
Transcribed on the device
Talkie · Specification sheet Typ 2.5.43 · Build 49

Technical data

Talkie 2.5.43, build 49. Values apply to the macOS application and the iPhone companion.

59.8MBDisk image
16kHzCapture
On-deviceSpeech
FreeBoth apps
Talkie for iPhone, matte cream body with a single orange control
Fig. 1 Talkie for iPhone. Matte cream finish, one signal-orange control. Transcription runs on the device.

1System

Host
macOS 26+
Architecture
Apple Silicon (arm64)
Accelerators
Neural Engine, Metal, Accelerate BNNS
Package
Apple Silicon Mach-O, signed and notarized
Disk image
59.8 MB, Gatekeeper ticket stapled
Companion
iOS 18.0 or later · watchOS 10.0 or later
Price
Free. Bring your own model keys.

2Speech

Engine
FluidAudio Parakeet TDT v3
Mode
Streaming transducer, CoreML
Alternatives
Parakeet v2, Parakeet 110M, WhisperKit Turbo, Apple Speech
Capture
16 kHz, 16-bit, mono PCM, VAD gated
Network
None. Transcription is on-device.

3Models

Default
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Models
DeepSeek V4, GLM-5, Grok 4, Llama 4 Scout, Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6 Sol
Providers
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Groq, OpenRouter
Keys
BYOK · stored in macOS Keychain, to.talkie.keys
Default model cost
Charged by the provider · $0.10 / 1M in · $0.40 / 1M out
Context
1M tokens
Orchestration
Local workflow runner with computer-use leasing

4Security

IPC
Mach XPC to.talkie.agent.xpc.dev, 30 s heartbeat
Signing
Developer ID Application, Arach Ghaznavi
Notarization
Apple notarytool, ticket stapled
Permissions
Microphone · Accessibility · Screen Recording (optional)
SHA-256
cbb05f97df94850012502939fd2b6818adbc62562c0c057af50b44deb3ba5f4f
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