With your money
Subscription upon subscription: transcription, translation, voice and an assistant — each with its own bill and limits.
AI assistant for Mac · everything on your computer
Stop renting
intelligence
Give PhraseFold a voice note, recording, video, link, document or folder and it turns it into a transcript, translation, subtitles, meeting notes, spoken audio or a finished file. Everything runs on your Mac, without the cloud or a subscription.
computed on this Mac
Apple M1 or newerMacBook, Mac mini, iMac or Mac Studio
macOS 14+Sonoma or newer
Local and privateWorking files stay on your Mac
No cloudRecordings are not sent to servers
Sound familiar?
Cloud AI charges you three times over
With your data
Meetings, interviews and book drafts leave for other people’s servers and live there under other people’s rules.
With lock-in
No internet means no work. When prices or rules change, you are the last to know.
How it works
Your Mac already has an
AI computer inside. Switch it on.
Apple Silicon runs neural networks itself: transcription, translation, speech synthesis. PhraseFold puts the models on your disk and then works on your processor — there are no minute counters and no request limits here.
01
Download and install
53 MB, Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple.
02
Pick your models
The app suggests ones that fit your Mac — you decide what to install.
03
Work
Transcription, translation and voice then run without the internet.
Screens
An interface you understand from the first screen
From source to result
Say it in words — the assistant does the rest
An assistant that acts, not just advises
“Transcribe the stand-up, translate it and build subtitles” — one phrase starts the whole chain. Progress stays visible in chat and the finished files land in your library.
Speech and media → accurate text
Files, links, channels, playlists and batches become transcripts with speaker labels and timestamps; Listen Mode writes live audio as text.
Translation and localisation
Translate phrases, documents, books and SRT while keeping structure; use floating subtitles or create an experimental dubbed track.
Understand your own material
Turn meetings into notes and action items, ask questions about recordings and documents, and find material by meaning in the library.
Automate work on your Mac
Action chains, watched folders, files and tables, dictation in any app and read-aloud remove repetitive work.
Who it is for
Four workflows where PhraseFold gives time back
Meetings and interviews
Recording → speaker-labelled text → decisions, actions and notes you can verify against the source.
Video and podcasts
File or link → transcript → translation → SRT, floating subtitles or an audio track.
Study and research
Books and documents → translation, questions over your material, semantic search and read-aloud.
Everyday Mac work
Dictation, folders, tables and multi-step actions run locally from a plain-language command.
The essentials
Answers before you download
- What can PhraseFold do?
- It accepts voice, audio, video, links, documents and folders, then returns transcripts, translations, subtitles, meeting notes, answers over your material, spoken audio and finished files.
- Does PhraseFold work offline?
- Yes. Once models are installed, speech recognition, translation, the assistant and voices run on your Mac. Network access is used for model downloads, link imports, updates and web search only when you enable it.
- Which files and languages are supported?
- Use audio or video from disk or a link, TXT and SRT, plus DOCX, PDF and EPUB documents. Transcription supports 25 languages and translation supports 15; the full list is below.
- How do Free, PhraseFold and Studio differ?
- Free includes dictation, local file transcription and phrase translation. PhraseFold unlocks every feature plus one year of updates. Studio has the same complete feature set and all future updates forever.
Privacy
Your recordings stay on your Mac.
So does the intelligence.
Privacy here is not a checkbox in settings but how the program is built. Recordings, transcripts and files are never sent anywhere — any network monitor will show it.
Your history stays local
Chats, transcripts and translations live only on this Mac and are never uploaded.
Network access — only when you ask
Models, link imports and update checks happen only when you ask. Web search is off by default. The one exception: once a day the app asks GitHub whether a newer link-downloader has shipped.
No account
No sign-up, no profile. The key arrives by e-mail and is activated in the app.
PRICE AND EDITIONS
What does it cost, and what do you get?
Download and try it for free, with no card or account. PhraseFold at 6,900 ₽ unlocks the complete feature set, includes one year of updates and keeps working indefinitely. Studio at 14,900 ₽ includes the same features plus every future update.
Free
0 ₽forever
- Dictation in any Mac app
- Transcribe your own files on this Mac
- No card, no account, no expiry
Requires a Mac with Apple M1 or newer · macOS 14+ · Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple
EVERY FEATURE
PhraseFold
6,900 ₽one payment
- The complete current feature set — full list below
- Keeps working: this is a purchase, not a rental
- One year of updates included; renewing afterwards is 3,900 ₽ a year, if you want it
- Two Macs per licence
The key arrives by e-mail right after payment
PhraseFold Studio
14,900 ₽one payment
- Every PhraseFold feature, with no feature limits
- Updates forever — nothing to renew, ever
- The price of two-to-three months of cloud subscriptions — and it is the last payment
Planning to use it for years? Take this one now
What is in Free, and what does PhraseFold unlock?
| Feature | What it does | Where to find it | Editions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictation | Speak in any app — the text lands where your cursor is | Right toolbar → Dictate; the hotkey works over any app | Free · PhraseFold · Studio |
| File transcription | Audio or video from disk becomes text with timestamps | Home → Transcribe → drop a file | Free · PhraseFold · Studio |
| Phrase translation | Short text is translated locally in the app | Home → Translate → Text | Free · PhraseFold · Studio |
| Transcribe from a link | Paste a video or podcast link and get the text, with no manual download | Home → From a link | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Batch processing | Queue dozens of files and walk away — the transcripts pile up on their own | Transcribe → add several files to the queue | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Who is speaking | Lines are split by speaker, so you see who said what | Transcribe → Options → Split by speaker | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Listen Mode | The Mac listens to a meeting or lecture and writes the text live | Right toolbar → Listen | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Meeting briefs | From a recording you get decisions, tasks and who owns what | Library → open a recording → Brief | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Action-chain assistant | One command starts transcription, translation, speech and saving the result | Home → Assistant | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Comments under a video | Downloads the whole discussion so you can work through it as text | From a link → Video → Comments | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Channels and playlists | A whole channel or playlist goes through as a single job | From a link → Channel or playlist | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Document and book translation | A file is translated whole, keeping its structure | Home → Translate → File | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Subtitles | Edit, translate and save SRT; floating subtitles stay above other windows | Right toolbar → Subtitles | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Dubbing | Voices the translation aloud — an experimental feature | Subtitles → Dubbing | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Questions about your material | Ask a recording or document and get an answer that points at the passage | Library → open material → Ask the assistant | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Read aloud | Reads articles, documents and assistant answers aloud on this Mac | Right toolbar → Read aloud | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Library and search | Keeps recordings, text and translations together and finds them by meaning | Bottom bar → Library | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Watched folders | New files in a chosen folder automatically enter the right workflow | Settings → Automation → Watched folders | PhraseFold · Studio |
| Files, folders and tables | The assistant reads folders, assembles documents and fills tables on command | Assistant → command with a folder, file or table path | PhraseFold · Studio |
Which languages does it work in?
Transcription — 25 languages: English, Russian, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, Turkish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Greek, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian. Translation — 15 languages: English, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian and Arabic.
For comparison: three typical cloud services cost about $60 a month — $2,160 over three years. Stop paying and the access, the files and the history are gone.
EVERY FEATURE, IN DETAIL
What PhraseFold does
Tier by tier: what is free, and what the paid licence adds. Tap any row to expand it — what it does, how it behaves in practice, and where the limit is.
Open the complete feature and edition reference →
Dictation anywhereFreeHold a key, speak — the text lands wherever your cursor is
Where to find it:Right toolbar → 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.
You will need to allow Input Monitoring once in System Settings — without it macOS will not let the app type for you.
TranscriptionFreePaid — links and batchesMeetings, interviews, podcasts and video into accurate text with timestamps
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.
Speed depends on your Mac and the recording: on Apple Silicon transcription runs faster than real time, but an hour of audio is not instant. AI output is worth re-reading.
TranslationPhrases — all tiersPaid — documents and booksFrom a single phrase to a whole book — with the document's layout intact
Where to find it:Home → Translate → Text or File
Short fragments are translated on the spot, on device. PhraseFold and Studio add whole documents: the file keeps its structure — headings, lists, markup — and comes back in the same format.
- 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.
Machine translation is a professional-grade draft, not a certified document. Legal and medical text needs a human check.
Listen Mode — live subtitlesPaidHears any sound on your Mac — a call, a video, a podcast — and writes it as it goes
Where to find it:Right toolbar → 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.
macOS will ask permission to record system audio. A live pass is inherently less accurate than transcribing a file — it cannot re-listen to a phrase.
Meeting briefsPaidAn hour of talk becomes a short brief: what was agreed and what to do
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.
A brief is an assistant, not minutes: read it before sending it to the participants.
Video commentsPaidThe discussion under a video is saved next to its transcript
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.
An assistant for your own materialPaidSay it in words — the assistant does it: transcribes, translates, handles files
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.
A local model is not the largest model in the world: it covers everyday work on your own material but will not replace cloud AI at everything. Web search is off by default and you turn it on.
Whole channels and playlistsPaidOne channel link becomes a queue of every episode, resumable
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.
A hundred episodes means hours of your Mac's time and tens of gigabytes of temporary files. Private and removed videos cannot be downloaded.
DubbingPaidexperimentalVoice a translated transcript — on device
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.
This is not studio dubbing with lip sync: phrase lengths can drift from the original.
What goes over the network, and whenAll tiersThe complete list of network actions — instead of vague privacy talk
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.
No account is needed: the app does not know who you are. The beta keeps a technical log of installs and errors — it stays on your Mac, is visible in Settings and switches off with one toggle.
What gets downloaded at installAll tiersThe app is 53 MB, but the models are gigabytes — and you choose which
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.
The full set with the assistant and the voice is gigabytes on disk. If space is tight, start with speech recognition.
Licence, updates and devicesAll tiersHow the key works, what the update year covers, and how many Macs it allows
Where to find it:Settings → Licence and updates
After payment the key arrives by e-mail and is pasted into Settings. It is verified on device by digital signature — the app needs no activation server and tells nobody that you launched it.
- A year of updates is included: "Check for updates" brings the versions released within that year.
- After the year the purchased version keeps working indefinitely — it simply stops updating.
- The licence covers two Macs belonging to one owner.
The two-device limit is contractual: the app deliberately does not track where you run it and is not tied to your hardware.
Your Mac is smarter
than you think.
Download PhraseFold and see it in one evening: most of your tasks don’t need the cloud.
Editions: Free · PhraseFold 6,900 ₽ (every feature, a year of updates; renewing later is 3,900 ₽ a year, optional) · Studio 14,900 ₽ (the same, updates forever). One-time purchase, no subscription; the key arrives at the address you buy with.
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PhraseFold is built by GNEURO, Nikita Glukhov’s product studio. About the creator · Page updated · Build published .