hex
by anomalyco
Hex is a desktop app that turns your speech into text on your own device. You hold a shortcut key, speak, and it pastes the words into whichever app you are using.
- Stars
- 4.2k
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Easy
- Language
- Rust
- Age
- 108 days
What you can do with it
- Dictate emails, messages and documents into any app by holding a key and speaking
- Transcribe speech without sending audio to an online service
- Use the same dictation tool across Mac, Windows and Linux computers
Make money with it
Freelance writers or transcribers could use it to produce first drafts faster and take on more work, though it is not itself a money-making product.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Draft emails, notes and client replies by voice to save typing time
- Avoid paid dictation subscriptions while keeping client conversations and sensitive text on your own machine
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Download an installer for your system (DMG, Windows installer, or Linux package) or install with Homebrew, AUR, Nix or an install script; a speech model downloads on first run.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- The project does not accept pull requests, only issues
- macOS build is only listed for Apple silicon
- Dev builds update themselves and may be unstable
Who's talking about it
Checked 03 Nov 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
