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No. Spillsy Speech and Spillsy Polish run on your Mac and ship inside the app, and Spillsy never goes online. There’s no account and nothing is collected.

Yes. Everything works without an internet connection, from the first launch.

Any app where you can type: Mail, Messages, Slack, Notes, browsers, code editors and more. Spillsy pastes at your cursor and then puts your clipboard back.

A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later. Dictation is English only. Transforms, Command Mode and meeting summaries also need Apple Intelligence turned on; dictation and cleanup don’t.

After you install or update Spillsy, macOS prepares the speech model for your Mac’s Neural Engine. It takes up to about 10 minutes, happens once, and dictation starts as soon as it’s done. Later launches take seconds.

Yes. Choose another key, fn with ⌃, ⌥, ⇧ or ⌘, or a mouse button in Settings. Double-tap fn to dictate hands-free, and press Esc to cancel.

Add them to your Dictionary once. Spillsy spells them your way in every dictation and meeting note, and replacements turn what you say into what you want, like “Q four” into Q4.

No. Spillsy is a one-time purchase of $2.99 on the Mac App Store.

Spillsy needs Input Monitoring to notice fn. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security › Input Monitoring and turn on Spillsy. If it’s already on, turn it off and on again, then quit and reopen Spillsy. If fn opens the emoji picker or switches input sources instead, set “Press 🌐 key to” to Do Nothing in System Settings › Keyboard.

Spillsy needs Accessibility to paste. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security › Accessibility and turn on Spillsy. Make sure your cursor is in a text field when you let go of fn. If something was missed, the text is still in Home, where you can copy it.

After you install or update Spillsy, macOS prepares the speech model for your Mac’s Neural Engine. This happens once and takes up to about 10 minutes, longer if your Mac is busy. Keep Spillsy open; dictation starts as soon as it’s done, and later launches take seconds.

Check System Settings › Privacy & Security › Microphone and turn on Spillsy. If you use more than one microphone, choose the one you want in Spillsy’s Settings, and check that it isn’t muted.

macOS has to allow Spillsy to record other apps’ audio. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security › Screen & System Audio Recording and turn on Spillsy under System Audio Recording Only, then record again. macOS doesn’t tell apps whether this is on, so Notetaker warns you when the app you chose is playing but only silence arrives. Also check that you chose the right app, or All Mac audio, when you started recording.

Allow Spillsy in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Calendars. Notetaker shows today’s events from the calendars on your Mac, including accounts you’ve added in the Calendar app.

These use Apple Intelligence. Turn it on in System Settings › Apple Intelligence & Siri and wait for it to finish downloading. Dictation and cleanup don’t need it. For Transforms and Command Mode, select the text first; Spillsy copies the selection, rewrites it and pastes the result over it.

Add it to the Dictionary, with the spelling you want. To turn one phrase into another, such as “Q four” into Q4, add a replacement.

Open Style and choose Formal, Casual, very casual or Excited for each kind of app: personal messages, work messages, email and other. You can move apps between groups.

It sits at the centre of a screen edge as a small capsule and grows when you hover over it. Drag it to any edge of any display; glass outlines show where it can land.