susu

Dictation for macOS · on-device

Stop typing word by word.
Say it the way you'd say it to someone.

Susu types what you said, where you were already typing. It turns out most of the effort in writing is assembling the sentence — and you never do that when you talk. All of it happens on your Mac, so nothing you say goes anywhere. $4.99 once. The first 3,000 words are free.

Download for Mac What it does

macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon · 4 MB

listening

Why it feels different

You stop composing and start describing

Typing makes you build a sentence one word at a time, deciding each one as you go. Talking doesn't. You already do it effortlessly all day, to people.

So the thing that actually changes isn't your typing speed — it's that you stop assembling sentences and start just saying what you mean. Susu writes down what came out.

Which is why most of it happens on a sofa rather than at a desk. You don't have to be sitting up to talk.

one utterance · about 30 words · 16 seconds

Where your words go

Nowhere. That's the whole answer.

Other dictation apps send what you said to a company's servers, get the text back, and ask you to trust what happens in between. Susu doesn't send it. Your voice becomes words on your own Mac and stays there. The only thing Susu ever asks the internet is whether a newer version exists — and only when you go looking for one.

It's also why there's no waiting. Nothing is being uploaded, so there's nothing to wait for.

CLOUD DICTATION
upload · queue · return
SUSU
transcribe
the same work, minus the round trip

Talk, then carry on

01

Hold your key and talk

Susu appears where you asked it to sit. It never takes focus, so the thing you were typing into stays exactly as you left it, cursor and all.

02

Say the sentence

Speak normally, at the speed you'd talk to a person. You don't have to slow down, and you don't have to say the punctuation unless you want to.

03

Let go

The words appear where your cursor was. Fillers are gone, the punctuation is in, and you keep working without touching the mouse.

The meter

You can see that it heard you

Most dictation apps draw a waveform, which tells you about the audio. Susu’s eyes are driven by your voice directly, so watching them is watching the level — and one small object carries the meter, the state and the app’s face at once.

That is why the whole thing fits in 64 × 32 points.

reacting to a voice, at true size ×3

Seven states, two shapes

Susu never writes a word on screen while you dictate. Every state is the same two eyes at a different tension.

idleArmed. Not on screen — only the menu bar glyph.
listeningAmber, and driven by your voice.
thinkingLooking up and away while the model works.
deliveredA blink and a small hop as the text lands.
nowhereNo text field. A glance at the clipboard.
mutedA password field. Susu did not listen at all.
errorSomething broke, and it says which.

Languages

English and Spanish, and more coming

Talk in English or in Spanish. You don't have to tell it which, and you don't have to change a setting — it works that out from what it hears.

More languages are being added.

en US · 0.94es US · 0.51more soon
both models, one pass, confidence decides

Placement

Put it where you actually want it

Tuck it in a corner, let it follow your cursor, or leave it centered at the bottom if that's what you're used to. Wherever it sits it stays out of the way — it never covers what you're writing and never steals focus.

bottom center
at the caret
bottom right
it never takes focus, wherever it sits

Never lost

A failure never costs you the words

Dictated somewhere there is no text field? Susu keeps what you said, puts it on the clipboard, and tells you plainly rather than throwing it away. Every error it can show you happens before it captures anything — so nothing you said can go missing.

Nowhere to put it
Hello, can you hear me?
Copied · ⌘V to paste
the pill grows into this, and the eyes travel

It cannot send your voice anywhere

Not “we promise not to”. There is nowhere for it to go. Your voice and your words never leave this Mac — not to us, not to anyone.

Speech recognition and cleanup both run on hardware you own, using frameworks that ship with macOS. There is no server to talk to, no account to make, and no telemetry. Your license key is verified offline — buying Susu does not create an account, because there is nothing to create one on.

You don't have to take our word for it. Turn off Wi-Fi completely and keep dictating. Everything still works, because none of it was ever happening anywhere else.

Recordings are never written to disk. Transcripts are stored on your Mac in Application Support so you can find something you dictated earlier, and you can delete them at any time.

Try turning off the Wi-Fi

Susu has no users to quote at you yet. Here is something better than a testimonial — a test you can run yourself, in about ten seconds.

Switch off Wi-Fi completely, then dictate a paragraph. It works exactly as it did before: the words appear, the punctuation is right, both languages still work. Nothing was ever leaving, so nothing is missing.

That is the whole claim, and you just proved it without trusting anybody.

Good questions

Does it work offline?

Completely. Recognition and cleanup both run on your Mac, so a plane, a tunnel or a dead router changes nothing.

Is my audio stored anywhere?

No. It is held only while you are speaking and discarded once the transcript exists — never written to disk, on your Mac or anywhere else.

Which languages?

English and Spanish. Both are listened for at once, so it picks up which one you're speaking on its own — no setting to change and nothing to select.

$4.99. Once.

The obvious question when the other one is $15 a month: what's wrong with it? Nothing — it just costs almost nothing to run. There are no servers to pay for, because your Mac is doing the work. A subscription would be charging you rent on something that isn't costing anybody anything.

Try it

Freefirst 3,000 words

Everything works. Nothing is disabled, watermarked or time-limited. The count is kept on your Mac.

  • About two weeks of ordinary use
  • No account, no card, no email
Download and try it

Keep it

$4.99one time

A license key by email, verified offline. Yours for every Mac you own, and for every future version.

  • No subscription, ever
  • Wispr Flow is $15 a month

You have never heard of us, and that is a fair reason to hesitate. So nothing is asked up front: no card, no account, no email. Use it for 3,000 words and decide then.

Get Susu

Say it out loud instead

The first 3,000 words are free and nothing is held back. If it does not make you faster, you have lost nothing but the download.

Download for Mac See what it does

macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon

Features

Everything it does

Susu was built from seven months of real dictation, so what is here is what actually got used — and what is missing was left out on purpose.

It learns your words

Names, product names and jargon you use often can be added so they come out right the first time. No more correcting the same word twice a day.

KlaviyoTailscaleSupabase+ add
a list you own, stored on your Mac

It tidies up after you

The ums and uhs come out, the punctuation goes in, and the false starts disappear — so what lands is the sentence you meant, not a transcript of you thinking. It won't rewrite you, though. What you said is what you get.

what you said, tidied — not rewritten

Works anywhere you can type

If there's somewhere to put text, Susu can put it there. Any app, any browser, any text box, right where your cursor already was.

any appany browserany text box
wherever the cursor already was

Spoken punctuation and lists

Say “new paragraph”, “comma”, “number one”. Say “scratch that” and the last thing goes away.

“new paragraph”“número uno”“scratch that”
in both languages

Download

Get Susu

One file, about 4 MB. The first 3,000 words are free and nothing is held back while you decide — no card, no account, no email.

Download for Mac $4.99 once, when you're ready

Version 0.1.0 · signed and notarized by Apple

Will it run on your Mac?

Worth checking before you download, because two of these are walls rather than preferences.

macOS 26 or later

Susu uses speech and language models built into the system. On anything older they simply are not there, and it cannot run. Apple menu › About This Mac tells you which version you have.

Apple silicon

An M1 or newer. Intel Macs are not supported and will not be. The same About This Mac window says which chip you have.

Apple Intelligence on

Not a wall — dictation works without it. It is what tidies up the ums and the punctuation afterwards, so leaving it off means rougher text.

What happens when you open it

Three things, and the first one surprises people, so it is worth saying in advance.

01

macOS checks it with Apple

The first time you open anything downloaded from the web, macOS verifies it. Susu is signed and notarized, so this takes a second and then never happens again. If you see a warning instead, right-click the app and choose Open.

02

It asks to control your computer

This is the big one, and you should be suspicious of it. Typing into another app is not something macOS lets software do casually — it needs Accessibility permission, and that is the only way any dictation tool can put words where your cursor is. You grant it in System Settings, and you can take it back at any time.

03

It asks for the microphone

Once, the first time you speak. Audio is used to make the words and then discarded — never written to disk, never sent anywhere.

One setting worth changing. Susu uses the fn key by default, and macOS also opens its own panel when you tap it. System Settings › Keyboard › “Press fn key to” › Do Nothing stops that. You can also pick a different key inside Susu — fn is just where it starts.

Then it stays out of the way

There is no window to keep open and no menu to learn. Susu sits in the menu bar, and the only thing you do is hold a key and talk.

If you ever want it gone, drag it to the Trash. Everything it kept was on your Mac, so nothing is left behind anywhere else.

Legal

Privacy Policy

Last updated 2 September 2026

Susu is built so that there is almost nothing to write here. This page says what little there is.

What the app collects

Nothing. No analytics, no crash reporting, no telemetry, no account and no profile. Susu does not report on how you use it, and there is no server for it to report to.

It can do exactly one thing over the internet: when you choose Check for Updates, it asks whether a newer version has been released. That request carries nothing about you — not your name, not your license, not a word you have dictated. Susu never checks on its own; it only ever asks because you asked it to.

Your voice

Audio is captured only while you hold the dictation key, is processed on your Mac by frameworks built into macOS, and is discarded as soon as the transcript exists. Recordings are never written to disk and never leave your device.

Your transcripts

Text you dictate is stored locally so you can find it again, in ~/Library/Application Support/Susu/. It is readable only by your macOS user account. You can delete any entry, or all of them, from within the app. Deleting the app removes them.

Your vocabulary

Words you add are stored in the same folder, on the same terms.

Buying a license

This is the only point at which any data exists at all, and it is handled by our payment processor, PROCESSOR, not by us. They collect what is needed to take a payment and send you a key — typically your email address, your country for tax, and payment details we never see or store. Their privacy policy governs that data.

We keep your email address and order reference so we can re-send a lost key and honor refunds. Nothing else. We do not sell it, share it, or send marketing to it.

Your license key

The key is verified offline against a public key inside the app. Using Susu sends no request to us, ever — including at activation.

Children

Susu is not directed at children under 13 and collects nothing from anyone.

Your rights

If you are in the EU, UK, or a US state with a privacy law, you have the right to access, correct or delete the small amount of purchase data described above. Write to susu@farolabs.me and we will action it. Since we hold nothing beyond an email address and an order reference, this is usually a one-line request.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will be noted on this page.

Contact

susu@farolabs.me · Luis Salgado, Florida, United States

Legal

Terms of Use

Last updated 2 September 2026

The license you get when you buy Susu, in plain terms.

1. The license

Buying Susu gives you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use it on any Mac you own or control, for as long as you like. You are buying a license to use the software, not the software itself.

2. The trial

Susu is fully functional for the first 3,000 dictated words. The count is kept on your Mac. After that a license key is required to keep dictating; everything already dictated remains yours and stays accessible.

3. What you may not do

  • Share, resell, sublicense or publish your license key
  • Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the app, except where that right cannot lawfully be excluded
  • Remove or alter any copyright or licensing notice

4. Updates

Your license covers future versions of Susu. We are not obliged to release any, and may stop development at any time.

5. Refunds

If Susu does not do what this site says it does, write to susu@farolabs.me within 14 days and we will refund you in full. A generous trial exists precisely so that you can find out before paying.

6. No warranty

Susu is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Dictation is imperfect: always check what was typed before you rely on it. Do not use Susu where an error would be dangerous or costly.

7. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim relating to Susu is limited to the amount you paid for it. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost data, lost profit, or anything you dictated and did not check.

8. Requirements

Susu requires macOS 26 or later on Apple silicon, with Apple Intelligence enabled. If Apple changes or removes the system frameworks Susu depends on, parts of it may stop working, and that is outside our control.

9. Ending the license

The license ends if you breach these terms. You may stop using Susu at any time by deleting it.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, and any dispute will be heard in its courts.

Susu is sold by Luis Salgado as an individual.

11. Contact

susu@farolabs.me · Luis Salgado, Florida, United States

Support

Something not working?

Write to susu@farolabs.me and describe what happened. Most problems are one of the five below.

Nothing is typed when I let go

Accessibility permission is missing or was reset. System Settings › Privacy & Security › Accessibility, and make sure Susu is switched on. If it is already on, switch it off and on again — macOS sometimes keeps a stale entry after an update.

macOS says the app cannot be opened

Right-click Susu in Applications and choose Open, then confirm. This only happens the first time.

Susu hears nothing

Check the microphone permission, then check which input device is selected in System Settings › Sound. If another app has taken exclusive use of the microphone, quit it and try again.

The fn key opens something else

System Settings › Keyboard › Press fn key to — set it to “Do Nothing”. Susu deliberately does not swallow the key, so that every other fn shortcut keeps working.

Spanish comes out as English

The Spanish model may not be installed yet. Susu will offer to download it the first time it is needed; it is a one-off download and then works offline like everything else.

I lost my license key

Email susu@farolabs.me from the address you bought with and we will re-send it.