Everything that runs on your Mac is free and unlimited: dictation, meeting recording, the live transcript and search. Pro adds the cloud and AI, with no keys to set up.
Dictation and meetings on your Mac.
$0forever
No account, no card.
Dictation
Meetings
Cloud and AI. All in one plan.
$84/ year
$9/ month
That's $7 a month.
Cancel anytime.
Dictation
Meetings
Your own keys work in every plan. In Free a key gives you cloud transcription and AI modes for dictation, and you pay the provider for what you use. In Pro your key comes first for dictation, and what goes through it does not count towards the limit. The meeting AI is Pro only and runs on Captylo AI.
Launch prices. A new account in the app gets 7 days of Pro for free, no card needed. Dictation on your Mac stays free, whatever happens.
Pro includes 20 hours of cloud transcription and 3 million AI tokens a month (fair use; for a meeting only the time someone speaks counts). Terms
Dictation and meetings, feature by feature.
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Dictation | ||
| Dictation under one key, in every app | No word limit | No word limit |
| Speech to text on your Mac, offline | Yes | Yes |
| Live preview, dictionary, history with recordings | Yes | Yes |
| Learns from your corrections | Yes | Yes |
| Audio and video file transcription | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud transcription | With your own key | Yes |
| AI modes and your own modes | With your own key | Yes |
| Meetings | ||
| Recording without a bot (mic and computer audio) | Yes | Yes |
| Transcript | Live, on your Mac | Live, then a more accurate one from the cloud |
| Calendar, reminders and search | Yes | Yes |
| Export and an MCP server for your AI assistant | Yes | Yes |
| AI fixes and AI notes with decisions and tasks | No | Yes |
| Speaker labels | No | Yes, on macOS 15 or newer |
| Ask about one meeting or all of them | No | Yes |
| Account and payment | ||
| Account | Not needed | An email address, sign-in with a code |
| Price | $0, forever | $84 a year or $9 a month |
Prices include VAT. Cancel Pro any time, from the app.
Pro gives you 20 hours of cloud transcription and 3 million AI tokens every month. The limit is there so that nobody uses up the cloud for everyone. You see how much you have used in the app, in Settings > Captylo account.
How Captylo compares with popular dictation apps for Mac.
| Feature | Typical app |  |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 1,000 to 3,000 words, then a limit | No word limit, forever |
| Paid plan | $8 to $15 a month | $7 a month, billed yearly |
| Live text preview | Often only in a pricier plan | In Free |
| Works offline | Rarely | Yes, by default |
| Account | Usually required | Not needed in Free |
| Polish | One of 100+ languages | Interface, dictionary and AI modes built for it |
Based on the public pricing pages of popular Mac dictation apps, September 2026.
What to know before you pick a plan.
For dictation Pro adds cloud transcription, all AI modes and your own modes; for meetings a more accurate cloud transcript, AI notes, speaker labels and Ask. Plus every future feature. It costs $84 a year (about $7 a month) or $9 month to month. A new account gets 7 days of Pro for free, no card needed. There is only one paid plan, so there is nothing to compare.
You pay by card and Pro goes to the email address from the payment. In the app you sign in with that address, using a code we email you. Cloud transcription and AI then work with no keys of your own. You can cancel at any time from the app.
Yes, in the free plan too, for dictation. Paste your own key for cloud transcription or AI in Settings and those features work without a subscription; you pay the provider directly. The meeting AI is Pro only. Pro is for people who want it all to work right away, with no keys to set up.
No. Dictation on your Mac stays free with no word limit. You pay only for the cloud and AI, because those cost us money every time you use them.
Pro includes 20 hours of cloud transcription and 3 million AI tokens a month. For a meeting only the time someone speaks counts, on your track and the others’ separately, so silence and the other side heard through your speakers do not use the limit. When the cloud limit runs out, Captylo transcribes on your Mac, and when the AI limit runs out, the text is pasted without AI changes. The limits reset at the start of the month, and you see your use in Settings > Captylo account.
For dictation, yes, and it comes first: with your own key in Settings, Captylo talks to that provider directly, in Pro too, and that use does not count towards the plan’s limit. The meeting AI in Pro always runs on Captylo AI, our own AI service.
Yes. In Settings > Captylo account you pick yearly or monthly billing. You can also buy Pro on this site and then sign in to the app with the email address from the payment.
No account, no card. You can turn on Pro in the app whenever you need it.
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