Getting Started with Diktat

The first time you open Diktat, it asks for microphone permission. Without it, the app can't record anything. On iPhone and iPad, recording starts the moment you open Diktat. On the Mac, you press your key instead, more on that in the hotkey article.

Just start talking. With the built-in engine, your words appear live as you speak. To stop, press the record button again or, on the Mac, your key. The first recording after installation runs on the built-in Apple engine. Other engines load in the background.

After you stop, the text sits in your clipboard. On iPhone and iPad, you paste it yourself, into Messages, Notes, Mail, or any other text field. On the Mac, it also lands directly in the field your cursor is in. Every dictation also stays in your history.

Every dictation lands in your history automatically, without you having to do anything for it. Open it with the History button in the Recorder's bottom bar, the same on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Entries show the date, the time, and the first few words, newest ones always on top. Tap one, and the full text opens up in its own detail view. On iPhone and iPad, you can even play back the matching recording right there. On the free plan, history only shows you the last 7 days. With Pro, you see your complete history, with no such time limit.

The free plan allows 5 dictations a day, counted separately on each of your devices. Once today's quota is used up, a new recording simply won't start. A recording already in progress isn't interrupted by that, it finishes completely normally. It still gets saved too, it just counts toward that day's quota. The next day, your full quota is back at its usual level. With Pro, this daily limit disappears entirely, across all your devices at once. The counting itself, by the way, happens locally on your device, with no account and no internet.