Clabrate
Talk to your Mac to dictate, control apps and move windows
What this is
A Mac dictation tool that turns speech into clean text anywhere via a hotkey, with recognition running locally, evolving into an on-device AI assistant you can hand tasks to. No cloud or account required.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- Hold a key, speak a sentence, and it appears as text in any Mac app; select existing text, press a key, and say what's wrong with it to have it rewritten in place. Speech recognition runs entirely on the Mac.
- What's different
- No audio ever leaves the device -- recognition and rewriting both run locally.
- Pricing
- Free trial.
- Best for
- Mac users who think faster than they type and want to dictate or fix text without leaving their current app.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 10 days
- Last checked
- 4d ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
AI. Launched 10d ago on PeerPush, where it placed #479. Today, the site itself changed 4d ago — evidence it's still shipping, not just announcing.
Quiet for 3 days — no penalty yet, but quiet doesn't stay free.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It placed #479 on PeerPush with 27 votes.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
2 quiet days in between are left out — nothing happened on them. A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
Every good sentence I've ever typed was better in my head three seconds earlier. The thought would arrive whole, and then I'd watch the end of it fade while my fingers were still working on the beginning. When we speak it doesn't have that problem — you talk at the speed you think. So I built the tool I wanted: hold a key, say the sentence, let go, and text appears. In any app. And because the speech recognition runs entirely on the Mac. No audio leaves it, ever. That was the plan, anyway. Then the app started teaching me things. A few weeks in, I caught myself doing something dumb: re-dictating a whole paragraph because one line was stiff. The fix I actually wanted was to point at it and say "warmer." So I built that — select text anywhere on your Mac, press a key, say what's wrong with it, and it rewrites in place. Then I stopped opening browser tabs for questions I could just ask out loud. Then I added my own notes, so it answers from what I've written — on my Mac, not somebody's server. And one evening I said "put the browser on the left" and the window slid over, and I finally admitted what I was building. It was never a dictation app with an assistant attached. It's an assistant that starts by taking dictation. All of it works with no API key and no internet. The on-device model doesn't just talk, it acts — changes a setting when you ask, digs through your notes, moves your windows. Every tool it can touch is listed in Settings, and you can revoke any of them with one click. One more story, because it explains how I think about your data. There's an optional feature that keeps the microphone warm so dictation never clips your first word — and while it's on, macOS keeps its orange recording dot lit. I love it. The OS refuses to keep secrets about microphones, and any company annoyed by that is telling on itself. The feature ships off by default, the tradeoff is documented, and the dot stays. That's the deal across the whole app: your voice is transcribed on your Mac, your notes stay on your Mac, and the cloud is a door you open on purpose — never a default you discover later. The trial's free. The license is one-time, not a subscription. And if you only ever use it to hold a key and talk, that's a complete product — but I don't think you'll stop there
Where it launched
1 platform| Platform | Votes | Counts toward price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| PeerPush | 27 | sets the price | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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