Get Murmurtale for your Mac

Download

The notarized Mac app is free to download.

Free to download. Sign in inside the app to start your 14-day trial.

Every published build will be signed, notarized by Apple, and listed here with its checksum so you can verify what you downloaded:

SHA-256 (Murmurtale-1.1.5-b1026.dmg)
9c981974a23d772bc215b1e95deb7972dbc1bae9f57e82c2186b172ccf5a3852

Once installed, Murmurtale checks for signed updates about once an hour and updates itself.

If macOS ever says the app can’t be opened: open Finder → Applications, right‑click Murmurtale, choose Open, then Open again. You only do this once.

What it needs

• macOS 14 or later on an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer). Intel Macs are not supported.
• English only for now, both cloud and on-device. Dialogue formatting follows US English manuscript conventions.
• About 700 MB of free space — the app plus the on-device speech model it downloads on first launch.
• The Mac app is free to download. On-device dictation is included free (5,000 words a month on a free account); the Pro cloud engine, the default and most accurate engine, comes with a free 14-day trial for new accounts. Sign in inside the app to start the trial.

Install in three steps

1. Open the .dmg and drag Murmurtale to Applications. Launch it from the Applications folder — not from inside the disk image — so macOS treats it as properly installed.
2. Grant the two permissions it asks for on first launch: Microphone (to hear you dictate) and Accessibility (to place finished text at your cursor). That is the whole list — if a dialog asks for anything else, it is not Murmurtale.
3. Let the speech model download once. Murmurtale fetches its on-device model (about 632 MB) and compiles it for your Mac’s Neural Engine. A minute later the quill appears in your menu bar and you are ready to dictate.

While you wait

See what the download gets you: the before-and-after on the home page shows raw speech becoming a formatted scene.