Epilude is a Mac voice suite for dictation, meeting notes and read-aloud, with a private Local Mode. $59 one-time or Pro from $12/month. Free trial.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Epilude is a voice productivity suite for Mac, made by Antelude LTD. It brings four tools together: Dictation, Notetaker, Actions and Narrator. Together they let a user speak instead of type, record meetings without a bot, edit text by voice, and listen to documents instead of reading them.
The company says its goal is to keep voice and data in the user's hands. It describes itself as small and fully bootstrapped, and says it focuses on local models rather than collecting data to train the next model.
Dictation runs from a hotkey rather than a separate window. The user holds the key, speaks and releases, and the finished text appears about a second later wherever the cursor sits. Double-tapping the key starts hands-free dictation until it is tapped again.
Epilude has two processing modes. Cloud mode is the default and offers the widest language support. Local Mode runs the EP-1 model on the Mac, so dictation and meeting transcription work offline and audio never leaves the computer. Actions currently requires cloud models.
Dictation includes AI Smart Edits, which drops filler words, fixes punctuation, keeps spoken corrections and formats lists. Tone Match sets formality by app. Vocabulary learns names and terms after a single fix, and Shortcuts insert saved text from a spoken cue such as a signature or scheduling link.
Notetaker captures microphone and meeting audio, then writes an editable summary and action items and saves a Markdown file to a chosen folder. Actions rewrites selected text from a spoken command. Narrator reads documents, web pages and selected text aloud with a local or cloud voice.
Epilude is a voice productivity suite for Mac. It includes Dictation, a bot-free Notetaker for meetings, Actions for editing selected text by voice, and Narrator for reading text aloud. Local Mode runs the core tools on the Mac.
Pay Once costs $59 and includes unlimited local use plus one year of updates. Pro is listed at $18 per month, or $12 per month when billed yearly. Every new account starts with a free trial.
Yes. Every new account starts with a free trial and no credit card is required. The site lists 1,000 words and 10 meeting notes in the trial, and 5 cloud voice minutes.
Not in Local Mode. Dictation and meeting transcription then run on the Mac with the EP-1 model, even offline. Cloud mode is the default for new installs, and the site says Epilude does not retain audio or text after the result is returned.
No. Notetaker captures the microphone and meeting audio on the Mac, so no bot joins the call. The site recommends getting consent to record and has a Help Center article on it.
Pay Once needs an Apple Silicon Mac, and on-device AI Cleanup and meeting summaries need 16GB of memory. Pro runs in the cloud and works on any Mac running macOS 14 or later, including Intel.
Cloud mode supports 30+ languages according to the pricing page, and the dictation page says 35+. You can switch languages mid-sentence. Local Mode covers 25 European languages.
It suits Mac users who write or take calls all day and care about privacy, such as leaders, lawyers, sales reps, content creators, developers, students and support staff. Team features such as shared vocabulary are listed as coming soon.