tabi is a Mac app for dictation, asking questions, rewriting selected text, drafting replies and reading text aloud.

Yes. tabi is free while it is in beta, with every feature switched on. A paid plan may come later, and the app will tell you before anything changes.

Do I need an account?

No. There is nothing to sign up for; download and open the app and it signs itself in.

Which languages does tabi understand?

tabi understands 56 languages and can detect the language or let you choose one in Settings.

Listen can read PDFs, Word files, EPUBs, text files and photos of pages. Scanned PDFs and photos are read with Mistral OCR.

tabi requires a Mac running macOS 14 or later and an internet connection.

No. Audio is discarded when it becomes text. Your takes are saved as text on your Mac, where you can delete them.

Free AI dictation for Mac: hold fn, talk, and clean text lands at your cursor

tabi is a free dictation app for Mac. Hold fn and talk in any app, and clean, finished text lands at your cursor. Tap fn twice to go hands-free.

Select any text and tabi reads it back in a real voice. Open a PDF, a Word file, a book or a photo in Listen and it reads it aloud, in 37 languages.

Hold fn and Control to ask a question, rewrite what you selected, or reply for you.

Names and words in your Dictionary come out spelled right, and tabi learns from the fixes you make.

No account: download it, open it, talk. Free while in beta. Needs macOS 14 or later. Powered by Mistral AI.

Dictation in any Mac app: Hold fn and speak to place cleaned-up text wherever the cursor is, with app-specific writing styles.
Ask, rewrite and reply: Hold fn and Control to ask a question, rewrite selected text or draft a reply that lands at the cursor.
Read text aloud: Select text in any app and have a real voice read it back with a playback control.
Listen to documents: Open PDFs, Word files, EPUBs, text files or page photos and follow them as they are read aloud.
Multilingual voice tools: Speak in 56 languages and read documents in 37 languages, including translation while listening.
Personal dictionary: Add words and corrections so tabi writes and pronounces names and terms the way you want.

Mac users who want to dictate, edit, listen to text, or ask for writing help across the apps they use.

Typing, revising and reading content can be slow or difficult, especially when moving between voice, written text and documents.

tabi puts dictation, AI-assisted answers and rewrites, text-to-speech, and document listening at the cursor or in its Listen view.

The app combines dictation, asking, rewriting, replying and read-aloud features, with all AI processing handled through Mistral AI.

tabi is free to use.

tabi runs on macOS.

What is tabi?: tabi is a Mac app for dictation, asking questions, rewriting selected text, drafting replies and reading text aloud.
Is tabi free?: Yes. tabi is free while it is in beta, with every feature switched on. A paid plan may come later, and the app will tell you before anything changes.
Do I need an account?: No. There is nothing to sign up for; download and open the app and it signs itself in.
Which languages does tabi understand?: tabi understands 56 languages and can detect the language or let you choose one in Settings.
What files can Listen read?: Listen can read PDFs, Word files, EPUBs, text files and photos of pages. Scanned PDFs and photos are read with Mistral OCR.
What Mac do I need?: tabi requires a Mac running macOS 14 or later and an internet connection.
Does tabi keep recordings?: No. Audio is discarded when it becomes text. Your takes are saved as text on your Mac, where you can delete them.