Hold a key. Talk the way you actually talk. Release — and clean, punctuated writing lands at your cursor, in whatever app you're working in.
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Press and hold right Option. No wake word, no app to open — nothing listens until you do.
Half-sentences, second thoughts, the client name only you know how to spell. Talk like you talk.
Finished writing appears at your cursor — punctuated, capitalized, cleaned of every um and false start.
Speech is transcribed by a model running on your Mac's own silicon. Audio never touches a server.
Email, docs, scripts, chat. If you can type there, you can talk there.
The ums, repeats, and abandoned starts disappear. Your wording, your voice — minus the noise.
Dictating into email sounds like email. Into chat, like chat. Magana matches the destination.
Clients, brands, places — teach Magana once and it never misspells them again.
Nothing records in the background. The mic captures only while your finger is on the key.
Magana is the Hausa word for speech. For talk — the thing you say out loud before you ever reach for a keyboard.
Hausa is spoken by roughly a hundred million people across West Africa, from Kano to Niamey. It gave us one word for the whole idea.
You talk. It writes.
"I grew up in Niger, where Hausa filled the market and the radio. I built Magana because the fastest writing I do is the kind I say out loud."Souley Oumarou — filmmaker & founder, Dayton, Ohio
Hold-to-talk dictation for your Mac. Hold a key, talk the way you actually talk, release — and clean, punctuated writing lands at your cursor in whatever app you're working in. Magana is the Hausa word for speech.
No. Speech is transcribed by a model running on your Mac's own silicon. Audio never touches a server.
An optional polish step sends only the finished text — never sound — to Claude for cleanup, and you can turn it off for fully offline use. Your dictation history lives in a private file on your Mac, readable only by you. Full receipts on the privacy page.
Click into any text field. Hold right ⌥ Option and speak — a small waveform pill at the bottom of your screen pulses while Magana listens. Release, and the finished writing appears at your cursor.
Yes. From the menu bar, pick any key you like for dictation and for Command Mode — right ⌥ Option, right ⌘ Command, right ⌃ Control, or F13 through F19. The change applies instantly, no restart, and Magana remembers it.
Editing by voice. Select text in any app, hold right ⌘ Command, and say what you want done — "make this shorter and warmer," "turn these notes into an email," "translate to French." Release, and the selection is replaced with the result.
The waveform pill turns violet so you know Magana is listening for a command, not a dictation. Nothing selected? Say what you need and it's written from scratch at your cursor. If anything fails, your text stays exactly as it was.
It types what you meant. The ums, stutters, false starts, and second thoughts disappear — say "meet at nine thirty, no wait, make it ten" and the page reads ten.
Your wording and your tone stay yours. Magana only cleans. It never answers back, never adds words you didn't say.
Yes. Teach Magana a name once — a client, a brand, a place — and it's spelled right every time after.
No. The microphone captures only while your finger is on the key. No wake word. Nothing records in the background.
A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later). That's it — transcription happens on-device, and there's no word meter. Dictate as much as you want.