Macrophone

Macrophone for Mac

The free menu bar app that receives what you dictate on your iPhone and sends it straight into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or the Terminal tab running Claude Code, or puts it on your clipboard, in a note, or into a script or agent.

Coming soon Version history

The Mac app is being signed and notarized by Apple. It will be free, and this page will have the download.

What you need

Mac
macOS 14 Sonoma or later
iPhone
iOS 17 or later, with the free Macrophone app
Cleanup
An iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence, on iOS 26 or later
Network
Wi-Fi on both devices. No internet connection needed.
iPhone app: coming soon to the App Store

Opening it for the first time

  1. Open Macrophone-latest.dmg from your Downloads and drag Macrophone into Applications.
  2. Open Macrophone from Applications. macOS checks the app with Apple and asks whether you want to open an app downloaded from the internet. Choose Open.
  3. Macrophone appears in the menu bar and shows a QR code. Open Macrophone on your iPhone and scan it. If you can't scan, choose Use a code instead on the phone and approve the matching code on the Mac.
  4. Say something. It lands on your Mac's clipboard.

Macrophone starts when you log in, because it can only receive dictations while it's running. You can turn that off in Settings.

If your Mac says it can't check the app, make sure you downloaded it from this page, then open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down, and choose Open Anyway next to Macrophone. Still stuck? Get support.

What's new in 1.0

  • Receive dictations from Macrophone on iPhone over your local network, paired once with a QR code or a six-digit code.
  • Clipboard and notification, clipboard only, or auto-paste into the app you’re using, with your clipboard restored afterwards.
  • App targeting: send a dictation straight into Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Terminal, iTerm2, Ghostty, Warp, Slack or any app. Macrophone finds the message box, pastes, checks the words arrived and presses send, after a 2.5-second countdown you can cancel. Ready-made targets for Claude, Claude Code (Terminal), ChatGPT and Cursor.
  • Pick the window or tab by its title, or in Terminal by the program running in it, so “claude” finds the tab running Claude Code. Choose the send key (Return or ⌘ Return) and whether to go back to where you were.
  • Voice prefixes (“Claude, …”), per-app rules for dictations your iPhone sends on Automatic, snippets, output formats, and templates with context variables such as the selection, the window title and the browser’s URL.
  • Type into a tmux pane; save to Obsidian, Apple Notes or Reminders; Ask Claude with your own Anthropic API key, with the reply in the panel, on the clipboard, in History and in the API.
  • Profiles: a cleanup level, where the text goes, what happens next, scripts and webhooks. A send key only in apps on your Return list, never into a password field.
  • A history of the last 50 dictations, raw and cleaned, kept only on your Mac. Clear it or turn it off.
  • A local API on 127.0.0.1, the macrophone / mp command-line tool and an MCP server.
  • Open Macrophone from anywhere with a global shortcut (⌥⌘M by default), even with the menu bar icon hidden.
  • Dictations queued on the phone while the Mac was away arrive later, labeled as delayed and never auto-sent.
  • Automatic updates.

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Updates

Macrophone checks for updates and installs them for you. You can also choose Check for Updates… from its menu. Older versions and release notes are in the version history.

For developers

The download includes the command-line tool and the MCP server. After installing, open the Developer pane and choose Install… next to Command-line tool, then see the developer docs.

Uninstalling

Quit Macrophone from its menu and drag it from Applications to the Trash. To remove its history and settings too, delete ~/Library/Application Support/Macrophone. If you installed the command-line tool, also remove /usr/local/bin/macrophone and /usr/local/bin/mp.