Hold Ctrl + Win in any app — Gmail, Word, Slack, your code editor — talk, release, and your words appear right where your cursor is. The speech recognition runs on your own processor, so your voice is never uploaded, never stored on anyone's server, and never used to train anything.
Turn off your Wi-Fi and keep dictating. Same speed, same accuracy, nothing missing. A cloud dictation tool stops dead at that point; InkBeepAI cannot tell the difference.
Point a network monitor at it and dictate for an hour if you want the thorough version. There is nothing to see.
Speech recognition runs entirely on your machine. Your voice and your words are never uploaded, never stored on a server, never used to train anything — there is nowhere for them to go.
Anywhere you can type, you can dictate: browsers, email, Word, Slack, terminals, code editors. InkBeepAI types into whatever has your cursor.
Release the key and your sentence lands in about a second. No spinners, no cloud round-trips, no rate limits.
A tiny tray app with an elegant voice orb that appears while you talk. No windows to manage, nothing stealing focus from your work.
InkBeepAI restores your clipboard after inserting text — what you copied before dictating is still there after.
Pay once for a perpetual licence to this version — no renewal, no expiry date. Your licence is verified offline against a signature on your own machine, so the app keeps working with no internet and keeps working if our servers ever go away. Exactly what that covers.
Not Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or 32-bit Windows. On an Arm PC (Snapdragon / Copilot+), Windows 11 24H2 or newer, fully updated.
Intel Core 4th generation ("Haswell", 2013) or newer, or AMD Ryzen / FX "Excavator" (2015) or newer. Some budget Celeron and Pentium Silver chips lack AVX2 whatever their age — InkBeepAI will tell you at startup rather than misbehaving.
8 GB recommended. Everything InkBeepAI needs ships inside the download, so nothing is fetched later. About 320 MB once installed.
Built-in laptop mics work fine. No GPU and no special hardware required.
Everything InkBeepAI needs is bundled in the download — there is no .NET runtime, redistributable, or other prerequisite to install first. Not sure about the processor? Buy with confidence: if InkBeepAI won't run on your PC, we refund you.
One-time purchase. No subscription, no per-seat renewal. Every tier is the same app — more devices, nothing else changes.
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Yes. Your speech is processed on your own machine and never leaves it. The only network request InkBeepAI ever makes is a licence check every two weeks, containing your licence key and an anonymous machine ID — never audio, never text, never anything you dictated. Pull your network cable and InkBeepAI keeps working exactly the same. Here is exactly how, and how to verify it yourself.
Windows Voice Typing (Win+H) is free and fine for casual use, but recognition happens on Microsoft's servers, so it needs an internet connection and your speech leaves your PC. InkBeepAI runs on your own processor. Full comparison here, including when you should just use the free one.
Dragon is a full professional dictation suite — voice commands, custom vocabulary, training. InkBeepAI is one hold-to-talk gesture that works the same in every app, with nothing to set up. Side-by-side comparison, including where Dragon is the better choice.
Either. The installer is the easy path and needs no administrator rights. The portable zip is there for locked-down work machines — unzip it anywhere and run InkBeepAI.exe. Both contain exactly the same app.
It is — while you hold the hotkey, and only then. Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton and others have a microphone-protection feature that pops up whenever any app opens the mic; Zoom and Teams trigger the same notice. InkBeepAI opens the microphone when you start dictating and closes it the moment the audio has been captured.
What matters is where that audio goes: nowhere. Recognition runs on your own PC, and the only network request InkBeepAI ever makes is a licence check every two weeks containing your key and an anonymous machine ID. If you'd rather not see the notice, allow InkBeepAI in your antivirus's microphone settings.
No. That warning is Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, and it means Windows has not seen this file downloaded enough times yet to have built up a reputation for it — not that anything was found wrong with it. It appears on almost every app from a small independent developer.
To continue: click More info, then Run anyway.
The warning disappears by itself as more people download the same file. If you would rather verify before running, every release is published with its SHA-256 checksum so you can confirm the file you downloaded is byte-for-byte the one we published.
No. Everything InkBeepAI depends on is bundled in the download. There is no framework, runtime, or add-on to install first, and nothing gets downloaded in the background afterwards.
Whatever your tier says — . Every tier is the same app; the only difference is how many machines one key activates. Uninstalling does not delete your licence, so reinstalling on the same machine is free and does not use up a slot.
Yes. Email support with your licence key and we'll free the old machine's slot so your replacement can activate. There's no charge and no limit on doing this for genuine hardware changes.
Yes, and you keep the same licence key — we just raise the number of devices it covers, so nothing you've already set up needs reactivating. Email support and you pay only the difference between the two tiers.
This version is English-only — that keeps it small and very accurate. Multi-language is on the roadmap.
14 days, no questions asked. Payments are processed by Stripe, so refunds land back on your card automatically.
Your app keeps working. Licenses are verified offline with cryptographic signatures; the server is only needed to activate new machines. We built it so paying customers can't be stranded.
No — and nor does any other dictation tool that doesn't ask you for administrator rights. Windows deliberately blocks normal programs from sending keystrokes into windows running as administrator, which is what stops malware doing the same thing. Everywhere else — browsers, email, Word, Slack, terminals, your editor — works normally.
InkBeepAI bundles several open-source components, all under the MIT Licence. They're listed with full attribution on our licences page, and the same notices ship inside the app next to Beep.exe.
Not yet — and it would work differently, because iOS does not allow an app to listen for a hotkey or type into other apps. Here's what we're actually planning.