Press kit
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About Spake
Spake is a Mac app that records a voice note together with the screen you were looking at, and saves both as plain files.
Spake is a Mac app for talking through what you see. Double-tap right Option, speak, and Spake saves your words, the screen, and their timing as ordinary files: Markdown, JSON, WAV, MP4. Transcription runs on your Mac in 100 languages, offline after downloading models. $29 once. No account, no subscription.
Spake is a native Mac app for talking through what you see. Double-tap right Option, describe a bug, a design, or a decision out loud, and double-tap again. Spake saves what you said, the screen you were looking at, and the timing between them.
A note is a folder of ordinary files: Markdown, JSON, WAV, MP4, and JPEG frames, with the text read off each frame kept beside the transcript. Delete Spake and every note still opens.
Transcription runs on your Mac: Parakeet for 25 languages, Whisper for the rest of 100. Each downloads once, in the background. Recordings and screens never leave the Mac. Search covers what was said and what was on screen, and a bundled command line lets scripts and coding agents read notes as plain files.
For Apple silicon Macs on macOS 15 or later. 14-day free trial, then $29 once for up to 3 Macs.
Facts
- Price
- $29, once. Up to 3 Macs. No subscription and no second tier.
- Trial
- 14-day trial from first launch, with no card and no account. When it ends, only recording stops; every note stays readable.
- Refunds
- 30-day refund, no questions.
- Requires
- macOS 15 or later · Apple silicon.
- Download
- About 30 MB. On first launch Spake downloads the speech model for your language in the background: about 714 MB, or about 1.3 GB when it needs both models, as it does for automatic language detection. You can record right away, and notes transcribe when it lands.
- Speech
- 100 languages, detected on the Mac. Parakeet (about 714 MB) transcribes 25 of them; Whisper (about 574 MB) detects the language and takes the other 75, and setup offers it or it downloads when a language change or a note first needs it. Recordings and screens are not sent to any speech service.
- Interface
- 17 languages. Every one but English was translated by a machine and has not been read by a speaker of it, and the app says so.
- Note format
- Markdown, JSON, WAV, MP4, WebVTT, and JPEG in one folder per note. Documented on the note format.
- Sold by
- Hearthworks, LLC. Payment is processed by Polar, the merchant of record.
The maker
Spake is made by Jonny Asmar at Hearthworks, LLC. One person wrote it, and one person reads the mail.
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Screenshots
Real captures of the app, taken from a synthetic demo library, so no one's notes are in them. The screen in the recording is a staged scene. Each links to the full-size file.
The note reader
Recording
Contact
Jonny Asmar at Hearthworks, LLC: support@spake.app.
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