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Where to find it:Sidebar → Dictate; the hotkey works over any app

Works on top of any app: mail, notes, chat, a search field. While the key is held the app listens to the microphone; release it and the finished text is inserted into the active field.

• Punctuation is added for you and filler words are cleaned out.
• Recognition runs on your Mac — the recording is never sent anywhere.
• No time limit and no minute counter.

Where to find it:Home → Transcribe; links and the queue live on the same screen

Drop a file in — the app recognises the speech and files the result in your library: text, timestamps, export to TXT and SRT. The free tier works with files already on your computer.

• Paid editions: a link instead of a file — YouTube and other sites; the app fetches and transcribes it.
• Paid editions: a batch of files in one queue — walk away, come back to finished text.
• Paid editions: speaker separation — the text shows who is talking.

Where to find it:Home → Translate → Text or File

Both paid licences include short-text, document and book translation. Local mode runs on your Mac; speed and quality depend on the pack, language and material. Check complex layouts, tables and scanned text.

• Document formats: DOCX, PDF, EPUB, plus SRT subtitles.
• A book can be translated chapter by chapter and continued later — progress is kept.
• The translation can be reviewed and corrected before it is saved.

Where to find it:Assistant → Listen

The app takes the system's own audio rather than the microphone: whatever plays on the Mac becomes running text. Useful on a call in a second language, in a lecture, or when you need the gist of a video fast.

• The text can run with live translation.
• When you stop, the session stays in your library like any transcript.

Where to find it:Library → open a recording → Brief

On top of a meeting transcript the app builds a brief: the main topics, decisions and tasks. The full text stays beside it, so the summary can always be checked against what was actually said.

• Works with a recorded meeting and with a Listen Mode session.
• The brief is stored with the transcript — on this Mac only.

Where to find it:From a link → Video → Comments

Along with a video's text the app can save its comments as a separate file. Useful when the discussion carries more than the video does: corrections, links, reactions.

• Comments are taken for the one video, not the whole playlist.
• The count can be capped — no need to pull tens of thousands.

Where to find it:Home → Assistant

One sentence starts the whole chain: "transcribe the standup, translate it to English and build subtitles". Progress shows in the chat, results land in the library. The assistant answers from your material and can read its answer aloud.

• Works with folders and files: read, process, save the result.
• The language model runs on your Mac — the conversation stays off the network.
• It can be called by voice and answer out loud — handy when your hands are busy.

Where to find it:From a link → Channel or playlist

Give a link to a channel, a playlist or a podcast feed — the app lists the episodes and transcribes them one after another into a single folder in your library.

• An interrupted queue can be resumed: finished episodes are not redone.
• You see what is done, what is running and what failed, per episode.
• You can subscribe to a channel so new episodes are picked up.

Where to find it:Subtitles → Dubbing

Translated text can be spoken by a synthesised voice into an audio track. The feature is labelled experimental honestly: it works, but the quality depends on the material and the language.

Where to find it:Settings → Privacy and network

Recordings, transcripts, translations and history stay on this Mac. The app goes online in exactly these cases:

• The first model install — they have to be downloaded once.
• Importing a link — the video or audio itself is fetched from the site.
• The assistant's web search — off by default, switched on by you.
• Checking for app updates.
• If you chose an external model server yourself — the text goes to it.

Where to find it:Settings → Models

On first launch the app looks at your Mac — chip, memory, free disk — and proposes a set of models to match. Nothing downloads until you agree; the list and the total size are shown first.

• Speech recognition is always needed; the assistant and the voice are optional.
• Any part can be declined and installed later.
• Russia and the CIS have their own download mirror — on a throttled connection that matters.

Where to find it:Settings → Licence and updates

Both paid versions have the same features and work on two Macs belonging to one owner. PhraseFold includes one year of updates. Studio does not require annual renewal for included updates.

• After payment is confirmed, your licence key appears on the site and is sent to your purchase email.
• PhraseFold update renewal after year one is optional at RUB 3,900 per year. You do not need to renew to use your purchased compatible version.