Shhh is a menu bar app that turns speech into text instantly — or talks to Claude AI — from any app. Two hotkeys. Zero friction.
Free · macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
Press the hotkey, speak, press again. Your words land in your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. Perfect for long-form thoughts or quick responses.
Ask a question with your voice. Claude answers in natural speech powered by ElevenLabs. The response is also copied to your clipboard automatically.
Lives in your menu bar — no dock icon, no window clutter
Works in any app — dictate into emails, code editors, notes, anywhere
No API keys needed — free tier uses our hosted proxy
Auto-updates — always on the latest version
Open source — inspect, fork, contribute
Grab the latest release via the download button above.
Install the app like any other macOS utility.
Required for first launch only, since the app is distributed as an unsigned binary.
Allow Shhh to access your Microphone and Accessibility features so it can listen and paste text.
Start talking. It's that simple.
Since Shhh is free and open source, it's distributed outside the App Store. macOS will ask you to confirm on first launch — just right-click the app in your Applications folder and select Open to bypass the initial security prompt.