Nothing is uploaded
Speech recognition runs on your Apple Silicon Mac. Private has no cloud step for what you dictate, so there is no server holding your words.
VV Private · On-device
Your voice. Your Mac. Nowhere else.
Private is dictation that stays on your computer: fast, offline, and with nothing to upload. It is the right choice for confidential work, and for anyone who simply prefers it that way.
Why Private
Everything you need, and nothing you have to send away.
Works anywhere
On a train, on a plane, behind a strict firewall. After the one-time model download, dictation needs no connection.
No account to start
Download, allow the microphone and Accessibility, and speak. You only create an account to buy a plan or move it to another Mac.
Types into any app
Mail, Slack, Word, your browser, your code editor. If there is a cursor, Private can write there.
Learns your words
Names, products and jargon, taught as you say them. Snippets expand a short phrase into a full reply.
Own it outright
Free for 1,000 words a week, £4.99 a month, or £79.99 once with no subscription at all.
VV Private
Your voice never leaves your Mac.
Dictation that runs entirely on Apple Silicon. Nothing is uploaded, you do not need an account to start, and it works with no connection. Made for confidential work, travel, and anyone who would rather keep their voice to themselves.
Free · £4.99 a month · £79.99 once
About PrivateVV Pro
Finished writing, and every meeting handled.
Everything in Private, plus AI that turns what you say into writing ready to send, and Vaitly Meetings: your calls transcribed on your Mac, with minutes and actions whenever you want them.
£10 a month, charged in pounds sterling
Explore Pro| What you get | Private | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Dictation into any app | ✓ | ✓ |
| Speech recognition on your Mac | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vocabulary, snippets and history | ✓ | ✓ |
| Transforms and Insights | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dictation with no internet connection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud Polish: AI editing that follows what you ask for | — | ✓ |
| Emails, letters and lists laid out ready to paste | — | ✓ |
| Vaitly Meetings: calls transcribed on your Mac | — | Beta |
| Meeting minutes, actions, questions, risks and decisions | — | Beta |
| Search and a calendar across every meeting | — | Beta |
| End-to-end encrypted backup and sync across devices | — | Coming soon |
Audio stays on your Mac in both. Pro sends text only: Cloud Polish sends the finished text of a dictation to be edited, and meeting insights send a transcript's text when you ask for them. Private sends neither. Vaitly Meetings is in beta and arrives with the next update.
Is Private really on-device?
Yes. Recognition, vocabulary, snippets, transforms on Apple Intelligence or a local model, insights and history all run and stay on your Mac. Only a transform you point at a cloud provider sends text, and the app labels it.
What is the difference from Pro?
Pro is Private plus AI editing and Vaitly Meetings, which send text — never audio — to Vaitly's server for AI features. If nothing should leave your Mac, Private is the product for you.
Which Macs does it run on?
Apple Silicon Macs (M1 or later) on macOS 14 Sonoma or newer.