Matches the app
Email gets a proper email. Work chat stays crisp, personal chat stays casual, AI prompts stay plain. In a browser, Gmail counts as email and ChatGPT as a prompt.
Dictation for Mac and iPhone
Hold a key. Talk.
It’s typed.
Skrim turns what you say into clean, well-formed text, right at your cursor, in any app. Bring your own API key. No subscription, no account needed, no server in between.
Interactive demo
To: Priya · Subject: Thursday
What you say
Press and hold the key (or your real Right Option key), then let go. It’s a simulation: nothing is recorded.
How it works
Three moves, no menus.
- 1
Hold
Hold Right Option ⌥ (or the key you choose). A small pill appears above the Dock.
- 2
Talk
Say it like you’d say it. Skrim transcribes while you speak, so there’s little left to wait for.
- 3
Let go
The cleaned-up text lands at your cursor. No text field? It goes to the clipboard, ready for ⌘V.
Double-tap the key to lock recording on and talk hands-free. Esc cancels. Pressing another key while holding cancels too, so your ⌥ shortcuts keep working.
What it does
Sounds like you,
reads like writing.
Cleans up as it goes
Drops the “um”s, applies your corrections (“three, no, four apples” → “four apples”) and turns spoken lists into real ones. Pick none, light or medium.
Meeting notes
A live transcript that tells You apart from Them, next to your own notes. One click turns it into a summary with decisions and action items.
Transforms
Select any text, press ⌃⌥T, and rewrite it: polish it, make it friendlier, turn it into a proper AI prompt. Or write your own.
Snippets
Say a short cue, get the long thing: your address, a booking link, a sign-off you type ten times a day.
Insights & history
Your streak, words spoken and time saved at your typing speed. Every transcript is kept on your Mac, so a missed paste is never lost.
Your key, your provider
Nothing goes
through us.
Your words never pass through a Skrim server. Audio goes straight from your device to the provider you pick, and the recording is deleted as soon as it’s transcribed, unless you choose to keep it.
- Groq for speed: about half a second from release to text.
- OpenAI, or any OpenAI-compatible transcription endpoint, including one you run yourself.
- Your API key lives in the Keychain.
- History, notes, snippets and stats stay on your device.
- No account and no sign-up: there’s nothing of yours on our side to log in to.
- You pay your provider for what you use, usually cents an hour.
Get Skrim
Free while
it’s new.
Good to know
Small print,
in plain words.
What does it cost?
Skrim itself is free during early access, on Mac and iPhone. Transcription and cleanup are billed by your provider per use, usually a small fraction of a cent per dictation. If Skrim becomes paid later, we’ll say so in the app first, and what you made stays yours.
Do I need an account?
No. Skrim works as soon as you paste an API key. There’s no sync between Mac and iPhone yet, so each device keeps its own history and settings.
Which languages does it understand?
English is the language we support and tune Skrim for. Your provider can transcribe many other languages, and they may well work, but the cleanup isn’t tuned or tested for them yet. Skrim’s menus and settings are in English.
Where can I get it?
On the UK App Store, for Mac and iPhone. We’re starting with one country so we can look after the first users properly. Other countries come later.
Does it work in every app?
Anywhere you can type. Skrim pastes at your cursor and puts your clipboard back afterward. If there’s no text field, the text waits on the clipboard; Copy Last Transcript in the menu bar is always there too.
Can I use the Fn / Globe key?
Yes. Set System Settings → Keyboard → Press 🌐 key to to Do Nothing so macOS doesn’t open the emoji picker at the same time.
What do meeting notes need?
Screen & System Audio Recording permission, to hear the call. Without it Skrim records your mic only. Use headphones, or the mic picks up the call as well.