anomalyco/hex

Local-first voice dictation, built in Rust.

HEX is local-first voice dictation for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 15 or newer. Hold a shortcut, speak, and release. HEX transcribes on your Mac and pastes the result into the app you are using.

The macOS app is available now. The Windows beta covers x64 and ARM64 PCs, and the Linux beta covers x86_64 X11 and compatible wlroots Wayland compositors. See Privacy and local data for what stays on your device and what optional features send to a provider.

Then launch Hex from Applications and complete setup.

The cask installs the same signed app and keeps its built-in updater. Existing DMG installations can keep using Check for Updates; Homebrew does not migrate or forcibly replace another app already named Hex.app.

HEX checks for signed updates automatically. Use Hex > Check for Updates… to check immediately.

Organizations that manage app versions themselves can turn off in-app updates, including manual checks, with the DisableUpdates Boolean in the anomaly.hex preference domain. Deploy it in a configuration profile (payload type anomaly.hex, key DisableUpdates, value true), or for a single Mac run defaults write anomaly.hex DisableUpdates -bool true. Relaunch HEX to apply it. Model downloads still work. Releases through 2.3.1 used the com.kitlangton.hex2 domain; profiles for those keep applying only to them.