# Amical

> Open-source AI dictation with free local models and optional cloud

Amical is an open-source dictation app for Mac and Windows, with mobile apps in beta. Hold a key or click its floating widget, speak, and the text lands in whichever app is focused. Speech can be transcribed on the machine with Whisper models, free and without an account, or by Amical's hosted cloud model after sign-in. An optional formatting step, still labelled alpha, reshapes the transcript to suit the app in use.

- **Category:** Voice Dictation
- **Made by:** Exa Labs LLC
- **Website:** https://amical.ai
- **Runs on:** macOS, Windows, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 6, 2026

## Pricing

Amical has a free plan. Paid plans start at $7 per month, billed annually at $84 ($10 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Unlimited dictation with local models on unlimited devices, plus 2,000 words a week of cloud dictation, custom vocabulary and AI formatting. One seat.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Unlimited local dictation on unlimited devices, 2,000 words a week of cloud dictation, custom vocabulary, AI formatting and community support. |
| Premium | $7 per month, billed annually ($84), or $10 billed monthly | Unlimited cloud dictation, plus shared vocabulary, team management, email support and priority access to new features. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Private model hosting, custom models, SSO/SAML, centralized billing, seat-based licenses and volume discounts. SOC 2 is listed as in progress. |

Read from https://amical.ai/pricing on Oct 6, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Amical before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 30% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Premium costs $7 a month when billed annually at $84, against $10 a month billed monthly. The pricing page describes this as 30% off. Source: https://amical.ai/pricing

## Key features

- **Dictation in any app:** Hold a key for push-to-talk, or click the floating widget for hands-free recording, and the words are typed into the focused app. The site lists 100+ languages with automatic detection.
- **Local Whisper models:** Whisper variants from Tiny (about 78 MB) to Large v3 (about 3.1 GB) download inside the app and run on the computer, with no account and no data leaving the machine.
- **Amical Cloud:** After sign-in, audio can be streamed to Amical's hosted speech model instead. Vocabulary and preferences follow the account across devices, and the vendor says audio is not stored or used for training.
- **App-aware AI formatting:** A language model adds punctuation and structure and fits the output to the focused app, such as email or chat. It is marked Alpha and runs on Amical Cloud or a local model through Ollama.
- **Custom vocabulary and snippets:** Add names and jargon the recognizer should know, and define trigger phrases that are replaced inline with saved plain text such as an address or signature.
- **Notes panel:** A built-in notes panel holds notes with a title and a rich-text body to dictate or type into, plus a floating notes window that stays above other apps.

## Good for

- People who want free, unlimited offline dictation on Mac or Windows
- Users who want a hosted cloud model without managing API keys
- Small teams that want to share a custom vocabulary

## Worth knowing

- The Free plan caps cloud dictation at 2,000 words a week; once reached, cloud transcription pauses until the weekly reset while local models keep working.
- The mobile apps are betas: Android is a public beta on Google Play, iOS is distributed through TestFlight, and the pricing page still labels mobile apps as coming soon.
- The desktop app supports macOS and Windows only; the README says Linux is not supported.
- AI formatting is labelled Alpha, and the docs list MCP integrations and custom prompts as planned, not yet shipped.

## Works with

Ollama, LM Studio

**Tags:** Dictation, AI features, Notes, Text expansion, Open source, Works offline, Local-first

## Alternatives

- [OpenWhispr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/openwhispr): Open-source dictation with free local models and meeting notes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/amical-vs-openwhispr)
- [Wispr Flow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wispr-flow): Voice dictation that cleans up your speech in any app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/amical-vs-wispr-flow)
- [Handy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/handy): Free, open-source offline speech-to-text for desktop. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/amical-vs-handy)
- [Aqua Voice](https://toolgpa.com/tools/aqua-voice): Cloud voice dictation that formats text for the app you are in. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/amical-vs-aqua-voice)
- [Typeless](https://toolgpa.com/tools/typeless): AI voice dictation that edits and formats as you speak. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/amical-vs-typeless)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 6, 2026:

- https://amical.ai/
- https://amical.ai/pricing
- https://amical.ai/download
- https://amical.ai/beta
- https://amical.ai/terms
- https://amical.ai/docs
- https://amical.ai/docs/local-ai-models
- https://amical.ai/docs/cloud-ai-models
- https://amical.ai/docs/ai-formatting
- https://amical.ai/docs/snippets
- https://amical.ai/docs/note-taking
- https://amical.ai/docs/billing
- https://amical.ai/docs/android-quick-start
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amicalhq/amical/main/README.md
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.amical.app&hl=en_US&gl=US

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