Say it on your iPhone.
It goes straight into Claude.

Yes. Both apps are free, with no in-app purchases, subscriptions, license keys or account. Every feature on this page is included.

It works best when they are. Macrophone can also connect the two devices directly when they're near each other, which helps on office, hotel and guest networks that keep devices apart. Wi-Fi needs to be turned on on both, but neither needs internet access.

Your iPhone keeps the dictation in a queue and delivers it as soon as the Mac is reachable again. Delayed dictations are only copied to the clipboard. They never paste into an app or press Enter on their own, so nothing gets sent to the wrong place hours later.

No. Speech is transcribed on your iPhone with Apple's on-device recognizer, and cleanup runs on Apple's on-device model. No audio is kept, not even on the phone. The text travels straight to your Mac over your local network, encrypted with a key created when you paired. Text only leaves your devices through something you set up: an app you send it to (a chat app like Claude sends it to its service, as if you'd typed it), Ask Claude, a webhook or a script, which the Mac app labels “Sends text off this Mac”, or Notes and Reminders, which sync through iCloud if you use it. Read the privacy policy.

You can dictate in any language your iPhone can recognize on-device. Cleanup and the custom dictionary's fix-up pass work in English only for now; in other languages you get the raw transcript, which is often all you need.

Cleanup runs on Apple's on-device model, so it needs an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 or later) running iOS 26 or later, with Apple Intelligence turned on. Other iPhones running iOS 17 or later get everything else, with the raw transcript instead of a cleaned one.

Yes. The ready-made Claude Code (Terminal) target finds the Terminal tab running claude and sends your prompt there, even if another tab is in front; start a dictation with “Claude Code, …” to use it. You can also type into a tmux pane, let Claude wait for your voice through the MCP server, or pull your latest dictation in with ! mp. See the recipe.

Only when the target is set to send. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor and the terminals send by default; VS Code and Slack don't, and any app you add is up to you. Before anything is pasted or sent you get a 2.5-second countdown with Cancel. The send key is only pressed in apps on your Return list, never into a password field, and never for a dictation that waited on the phone while your Mac was away. The safety rules.

Yes. A Terminal target can name a tab by its title or by the program running in it, so “claude” finds the tab running Claude Code even when you're looking at another one. Matching by program needs you to allow Macrophone to control Terminal (it asks from the profile editor); without that, titles still work. If nothing matches, nothing is pasted: the text waits on your clipboard with Try Again. iTerm2 sessions match by name. Window and tab matching.

Yes. Send to a specific app, paste into whatever app you're using, or type into a tmux pane. macOS asks for Accessibility permission the first time. Macrophone never pastes into password fields or while Secure Keyboard Entry is on, and puts your clipboard back afterwards.

No extra ones. On Automatic, your Mac picks the target by the app that's in front when the dictation arrives, which macOS reports without a permission. Delivering into an app still needs Accessibility, as any paste does. A few template variables ask for their own: {{url}} asks to control your browser, and {{selection}} and {{window}} use Accessibility. Send to and Automatic.

Ask Claude uses your own Anthropic API key. Macrophone keeps it in your Mac's login keychain, sends it only to Anthropic's API, and never writes it to settings, history or diagnostics. The Developer pane shows a masked version, and Remove… deletes it. Ask Claude is the one feature that sends your words to Anthropic, and it's labelled that way. Ask Claude.

Usually. Because the phone can connect to the Mac directly, networks that isolate devices are often fine. A managed Mac may block incoming connections or the menu bar app; if so, your IT team can allow Macrophone in the firewall. If the Mac can't be reached, dictations wait in the phone's queue and you can still copy them on the iPhone.

Built-in dictation listens through your Mac and types where your cursor is. Macrophone uses your iPhone's microphone from anywhere in the room, tidies what you said, keeps a history of raw and cleaned text, and can send each dictation straight into a chosen app (a Claude chat, the Terminal tab running Claude Code) and press send for you, or to a script, a webhook or an AI agent.

No. Macrophone is an iPhone app that sends to a Mac. There's no Windows, Linux or Android version, and no dedicated iPad design.

Not to try it. Before you pair a Mac, every dictation is copied to your iPhone's clipboard, so you can paste it anywhere on the phone. The Mac app is what makes the text land on your computer.