Jot

Jot is an Apache-2.0-licensed macOS menu-bar dictation app created by Ammaar Reshi. Holding a configurable hotkey records speech, sends it directly from the Mac to Gemini's specialist transcription model, removes filler words and applies corrections such as changes of mind, then inserts the polished text at the cursor. It supports hands-free recording, cancellation, tone matching, a custom dictionary, and a History window.

Audio is written to disk from the start of capture, with crash recovery and offline retry queuing. The insertion pipeline tries the macOS Accessibility API first, then a clipboard-restoring paste, and finally offers a manual paste when focus changes; an optional tone pass is guarded by validation and falls back to the raw transcript. Dictations and retry data are stored in a local SQLite-based history store. The app requires macOS 14+, a Gemini API key, microphone permission, and Accessibility permission, and is explicitly described as not an officially supported Google product.