A menu-bar dictation app for macOS

Say hello to Yello — talk, it types. Menu-bar dictation for macOS.

Talk. It types. Hold , say it, let go — Yello turns your voice into clean, ready-to-send writing in every app on your Mac.

You said…
A groovy guy joyfully yelling at his retro computer

“Hey computer —
make me type faster!

…that's the whole app ✺

The whole interface is one key

Three keys.
Five superpowers.

No windows to open, nothing to click. Your pinky already knows where the fn key is.

fn

Say it, it's typed

Hold fn, speak, release. Exactly your words, inserted instantly — with your names, emails and snippets filled in.

"remind jamie about the deck"
Remind Jamie about the deck
AI
fn+

AI polishes it

Rambling in, ready-to-send out — filler dropped, grammar fixed, tone matched to the app you're in.

"um so we should uh ship thursday i think"
We should ship Thursday.
AI
fn+

AI writes it for you

Don't dictate the words — order the result. Ask for an email, an outline, an essay, and it lands right at your cursor.

"write a short essay on Marcus Aurelius"
drafts it on the spot
AI · Selection
fn+

Talk to your text

Select something first and your voice becomes the instruction — summarize it, expand it, rewrite it, ask what it means. Answer lands on your clipboard.

"expand this into a full paragraph"
rewrites the selection
AI · Vision
fn+

AI sees your screen

Looking at an email? Say "respond — I'm interested, ask about pricing." Yello reads the screen and drops the drafted reply on your clipboard.

"what does this error mean?"
answer, ready to paste
AI cleanup

From ramble to ready.

You said
Yello typed
Small app, serious details

Built like it's your keyboard.
Because it is.

~20ms

Starts in a blink

The mic opens the instant you press the key. Your first syllable is never lost.

Tone reads the room

The cleanup adapts to the app you're typing into.

Knows your words

A personal dictionary nails your names and jargon. Snippets expand by voice.

Nothing gets lost

Your last 50 dictations live in History — ⌘⌃V pastes the latest anywhere.

Private by design

Choose Apple's on-device engine and audio never leaves your Mac. No accounts, no cloud inbox of your voice.

Hands-free mode

Double-tap fn to lock dictation on while you think out loud. Tap once more to finish.

Your voice is yours.  On-device transcription available · history never leaves your Mac · keys stay in the Keychain.
Simple pricing

Own it. One price.

No tiers, no subscription — one payment and every superpower is yours. Try it free for 7 days first.

Yello for Mac
$29 one-time
The whole app. Yours to keep.
  • Hold-to-talk dictation — private, on-device option
  • Personal dictionary, snippets & 50-item history
  • fn + ⌃ — AI cleanup, generation & selection edits
  • fn + ⇧ — AI sees your screen
  • OpenAI transcription & tone that reads the room
  • 2 Macs · 7-day free trial · 14-day refund
Get Yello — $29

Bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic key — or use the on-device engine. macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon.

Questions

Fair asks.

Which apps does it work in?

All of them. Yello types wherever your cursor is — Mail, Slack, Notion, VS Code, Chrome, Terminal, that weird internal tool. If you can type there, Yello can.

Do I need an API key?

No — Yello works out of the box with Apple's speech engine. Add an OpenAI or Anthropic key in Settings and you unlock the best transcription, AI cleanup, voice-written drafts, selection edits, and screen answers.

Does my audio leave my Mac?

Your choice. The Apple engine can run fully on-device. With an AI engine enabled, audio goes only to the provider you picked, using your own key — and screen vision sends only the screenshot you explicitly asked about.

What does it run on?

macOS 13 or newer on Apple Silicon.

Yello wordmark

Stop typing. Start talking.

Get Yello for Mac — $29
Beta — notarized release coming with 1.0 · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon