rede.
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macos menu bar app

just talk.
the rest just happens.

rede lives in your menu bar. hit a hotkey, talk, let go — and your text is there. cleaner, calmer, or just as you said it. your call.

download redeview on github

for macOS. local with Whisper + llama.cpp, or online with your own OpenAI key. no account, no hosted backend, no telemetry.

listening
modi

one mode per job.

each mode has its own hotkey and its own model — from raw dictation to a ready-to-send email. take only what you need.

Dictate

voice in. text out.

fast, precise transcription via OpenAI. long thoughts land straight as clean text.

eigener hotkey

Dictate local

local only. no server.

on-device transcription with Whisper. no audio leaves your mac — for anything sensitive.

eigener hotkey

Email

dictated, fully drafted.

say roughly what it should cover — rede turns it into a clearly structured, ready-to-send email, reads formal/informal and uses the field's context.

Prompt

spoken, cleanly prompted.

dictate your task — rede shapes it into a precise prompt for AI coding agents like Claude Code or Codex. invents nothing.

Social

text in. emoji on top.

your spoken text becomes a social post with fitting emoji — density adjustable from light to heavy.

workflow

how it works

three steps, then it's muscle memory.

  1. 01

    press the hotkey

    in any app — the global shortcut fires rede instantly. hold or toggle, whatever suits you.

  2. 02

    just talk

    the floating pill shows you it's listening, live. let go when you're done.

  3. 03

    text is there

    rede types straight into the active field or drops the text on your clipboard. done.

datenschutz

honest about what goes where

privacy isn't a marketing feature. here's the plain truth:

local

stays on your mac

  • local transcription runs fully on-device with Whisper (CoreML)
  • local rewriting + embeddings via a bundled llama.cpp on 127.0.0.1
  • no hosted rede backend, no account, no telemetry
  • temporary audio files are deleted after processing
online

goes straight to OpenAI

  • online modes send audio and text directly to OpenAI — with your own key
  • the key lives only in the macOS keychain, never on a server of ours
  • no proxy, no caching on our side
  • for sensitive work: use the local modes or review what you send first
screenshots

a look inside

real screenshots, no mockups.

the menu bar pill in action
the menu bar pill in action
configure modes — name, shortcut, model
configure modes — name, shortcut, model
manage local models in one place
manage local models in one place

let's talk.

download rede, give it the hotkey of your choice, and start speaking.

download redesource on github

for macOS · signed & notarized · auto-update via Sparkle

open source under the MIT license. experimental — review it yourself before sensitive use.