Lispr Review 2026

Lispr is a free 4 MB menu-bar app for Mac (and Windows) that turns speech into typed text at your cursor in any app — hold Option to dictate, add Control to translate into another language mid-speech.

Lispr (lispr.ai), by Codebridge Technology, Inc., is a push-to-talk voice dictation and translation utility for macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon and Intel; a Windows download is also offered). The gesture is the whole product: hold the right Option key and speak in your native language, and the transcribed text lands directly at your cursor in whatever app is focused — Slack, Notes, Figma, even Terminal. Tap Control mid-speech and Lispr types the translation into your chosen target language instead, so you can speak English and send Spanish in a WhatsApp reply without copy-paste or a chat UI. Speech recognition uses Whisper large-v3 in the cloud (audio is encrypted in transit, transcribed, then discarded — nothing stored, nothing used for training), understanding ~99 languages with automatic detection; translation is polished for 32 target languages, with your top two pinned to hotkeys. Speed claims: ~0.2s for dictation, ~0.5s for translation. Extras include custom vocabulary (product names, code identifiers, client lists respected in both dictation and translation), clipboard-safe insertion that restores what you had copied, and a ~4 MB footprint living quietly in the menu bar. There is no account, no sign-up, and no subscription: Lispr is free during early access, with the vendor promising advance notice if that changes — the site's own comparison table pits it against Wispr Flow ($15/mo) and Apple Dictation. Every release is notarized by Apple. No MCP support. Best for multilingual workers, immigrants, and anyone who talks faster than they type.