# tabi for Mac

Canonical page: https://macbase.app/apps/tabi-the-voice-app-for-your-mac

> Voice dictation, reading and AI answers for Mac

- Price: Free
- Requires: macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Languages: English
- Apple silicon: runs natively
- Notarized by Apple: yes
- Developer: Nikhil Bhima
- Categories: [Dictation](https://macbase.app/categories/dictation), [Text to Speech](https://macbase.app/categories/text-to-speech), [AI Chat & Assistants](https://macbase.app/categories/ai-chat-assistants)

## About

tabi is a free dictation app for Mac. Hold fn and talk in any app, and clean, finished text lands at your cursor. Tap fn twice to go hands-free.

Select any text and tabi reads it back in a real voice. Open a PDF, a Word file, a book or a photo in Listen and it reads it aloud, in 37 languages.

Hold fn and Control to ask a question, rewrite what you selected, or reply for you.

Names and words in your Dictionary come out spelled right, and tabi learns from the fixes you make.

No account: download it, open it, talk. Free while in beta. Needs macOS 14 or later. Powered by Mistral AI.

## An alternative to

- [superwhisper](https://macbase.app/alternatives/superwhisper): 5 alternatives on MacBase
- [VoiceInk](https://macbase.app/alternatives/voiceink): 2 alternatives on MacBase
- [Wispr Flow](https://macbase.app/alternatives/wispr-flow): 5 alternatives on MacBase
- [Speechify](https://macbase.app/alternatives/speechify): 2 alternatives on MacBase

## Get it

- Download: https://www.heytabi.app/download
- Website: https://www.heytabi.app

Listed by [Nikhil Bhima](https://macbase.app/@nikhilbhima).

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