Personal
US$9.99 founding price; then US$25One-time; founding price for first 100 buyersMac app, full source, agent kit and 12 months of updates. Official source 1 ↗
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Szept
Mac voice dictation, optional AI cleanup and screen capture for handing context to coding agents.
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- Pricing
- Personal costs US$9.99 for the first 100 buyers, then US$25 once. Team costs US$199 once for up to 10 people; Company pricing is on request. Twelve months of updates are included, with optional US$9.99/year renewal. Speech and optional AI cleanup use separately billed personal API keys. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
- Available as
- Mac app requiring macOS 14 Sonoma or later, signed and notarized by Apple. Official source 1 ↗
- Primary group
- Voice & Speech
What it does
Szept is a Mac dictation and screen-capture app for working with AI agents. It types speech at the cursor, optionally cleans text with an AI provider, captures screenshots and recordings, and pastes the capture path with instructions into another app.
Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗Features
- Dictation at the cursor. Hold fn to dictate into any app accepting text; it supports more than 60 languages and switching mid-sentence. Official source 1 ↗
- AI text cleanup. Remove fillers and repetitions, fix punctuation and shape the text for email, chat or terminal use. Official source 1 ↗
- Capture and annotate. Capture a window or region and annotate, blur, pin, extract text or read QR codes; screen recording includes audio and exports MP4 or GIF. Official source 1 ↗
- Agent handoff. Paste spoken instructions and a screenshot or recording file path into the source app; the user presses Return to send. Official source 1 ↗
- Source and agent kit. A direct purchase includes the full Swift source in a private GitHub repository and an agent kit containing specifications, plans and tests. Official source 1 ↗
Pricing & free limits
Team
US$199One-time; up to 10 named people in one companyPersonal package for ten people, one invoice and MDM deployment kit; a seat can transfer when someone leaves. Official source 1 ↗
Company
Custom quoteMore than 10 people; written licenceCompany or departmental licence, deployment help and centrally configured speech and cleanup endpoints. Official source 1 ↗
Billing details
Twelve months of updates are included; renewal is optional at US$9.99/year, and the existing version keeps working. Official source 1 ↗
Soniox recognition uses a personal key and is billed separately at about US$0.12 per hour according to the vendor. Official source 1 ↗
Free access & limits
Free access and its limits were not established by the checked official sources.
Best for & limitations
Describe a UI issue while a screenshot is open, then hand the spoken instructions and image path to a coding agent for review. Official source 1 ↗
- Online speech recognition. Speech recognition requires a network connection to Soniox; screenshots, recording and history can work offline. Official source 1 ↗
- Source use is restricted. Source is for permitted internal use; sharing source or builds and publishing or selling a fork are prohibited. Official source 1 ↗
- External cleanup processing. Optional cleanup sends transcript text to the configured AI provider; DeepSeek is the default. Official source 1 ↗
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