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Life & fun · October 6, 2026

Featherweight Dictation

Dictation that weighs nothing, for Mac and Windows

Featherweight Dictation launched on October 6, 2026 with 66 votes, #377 of 3,109 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Hold a key, talk, let go: speech to text in any app on your Mac or PC, ums gone, laid out as an email, a chat line or a prompt. Free trial, then $5 a month.

It's about your computer, and what your dictation app puts it through all day. AI dictation your computer won't feel and you'll never wait for, on Mac and Windows. Hold a key, talk, let go. 4.6 MB on your Mac 0 % CPU when idle text in about half a second ½ s And anywhere else with a text field. Names and logos belong to their owners. A dictation app starts with your Mac and waits for one key, from morning to night. Most weigh up to 596 MB and run all day, eating memory your Mac needs for everything else. Some download 75 MB to about 3 GB more to understand speech. One native process: 4.6 MB on disk, 31 MB of memory and 0 % CPU while it waits. Measured on October 1, 2026 on a MacBook with…from featherweightsoftware.com

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