Plans
VoiceHotkey sales and installer downloads are temporarily paused. Check the current status. Existing customers can still claim their app key at the claim page; license checks, refunds, and support remain available.
The current 0.9.5 installer requires macOS 14+ and supports Apple Silicon Macs only. An Intel installer has not been published.
A 14-day trial starts on first launch. On Free and during trial, activate a VH1-… key directly under Settings → License without an account login (no need to wait for trial expiry); activated Pro has Change key…. Trial expiry applies Free limits without relaunching; without activation, those limits remain.
Feature matrix
Section titled “Feature matrix”| Capability | Free | Trial (14 days) | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voice typing: Apple and Doubao | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Available on-device ASR: SenseVoice / Qwen3 / Whisper / MOSS / Fun-ASR-Nano / FireRed / Parakeet | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud multi-engine: Bailian, MiMo, Azure, OpenAI Speech, Groq, ElevenLabs, Soniox, NVIDIA, Gemini, etc. | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Voice translation: Apple native or LLM; basic polish | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| App-adaptive polish | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-app file transcription and SRT / VTT / ASS / LRC / TXT export | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| User command dictionary and auto-learned command matching | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| LLM intent / selection rewrite: BYOK or local Spark-X2.5 | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| History depth / retention | Fixed 100 entries | Customizable | Customizable |
Model availability: Fun-ASR-Nano and SenseVoice Small are available to download, select, and use for on-device recognition. Installed models work offline.
Apple native translation requires macOS 26+ and language resources. LLM features need a configured cloud service or local model. Free includes basic polish; app-adaptive polish requires Trial / Pro. Local commands have no preinstalled phrase catalog; create entries or use auto-learning. The fast path skips intent-model calls and does not mean measured zero duration.
The current version has no Shell execution feature. The file gate above applies to the app UI. See File transcription for the separate community CLI, its installation, capabilities, and limits.
Choose a translation engine before first use. Apple native translation uses installed system resources; installed packs do not guarantee success, and failures keep the original without switching to an LLM. See Voice translation.
History defaults
Section titled “History defaults”| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Free cap | 100 entries |
| Trial / Pro default | 500 entries, adjustable in History settings |
| Trial / Pro safety cap | 10,000 entries |
| Day-based retention | Trial / Pro; see History |
Current status
Section titled “Current status”VoiceHotkey sales, payments, and installer downloads are temporarily paused. See the current status. The license details below remain useful to existing customers.
Pro is a lifetime personal license for up to 3 Macs you own or control, without an account login. Keys are verified locally with Ed25519. First activation, binding another Mac, and transferring a device seat require Internet access and a successful server response. This bound Mac’s Pro receipt has no expiry and keeps working offline during a service outage or retirement. Reconnecting applies confirmed refunds, revocations and device deactivations and removes the affected Pro access. If a reinstall loses the Keychain receipt, online binding is required again.
If all seats are occupied, deactivate on the old Mac while online. Local deactivation does not guarantee that a failed online request has released the cloud seat. Local Only does not block license requests; see BYOK & data flow for their fields.
Existing customers can request a refund within 14 days of payment through their original order; see Buy Pro. New orders and installer downloads are paused.