Heynds
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActivemacOS dictation app: hold a shortcut, speak, and cleaned-up text lands in whatever app is focused
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
- Paid options from
- $3.99/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
One consumer plan, Explorer, at $3.99/month with the first month free. An enterprise tier with dedicated support is quoted on request. There is no permanent free tier.
Use tool ↗About Heynds
Heynds is a Mac-only dictation tool. A keyboard shortcut captures your voice anywhere in the system, transcribes it and tidies the result into finished text before pasting it into the app you are already in, so it works the same in Slack, Notion, Gmail, Figma or Teams. It also rewrites existing text rather than only transcribing. The vendor claims over 100 languages and routes model calls through OpenRouter using zero-data-retention endpoints, which is the extent of the privacy story on offer. It is built by a solo developer, Pierre Mouchan; the privacy policy is written to GDPR and states plainly that no legal entity or postal address is published yet.
- Platforms
- macOS
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- macOS-only dictation and rewriting via shortcut, 100+ languages, OpenRouter routing, Explorer plan at $3.99/month with first month freeheynds.com ↗
- Data controller is Heynds with no legal entity or postal address published; GDPR-based policy, [email protected]heynds.com ↗
Is Heynds legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Mar 11, 2025 (1 year ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 22, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Heynds (Pierre Mouchan)Our research, card verified Aug 23, 2026
Pros & cons of Heynds
A cheap, single-purpose dictation layer for the Mac that does the one thing well: shortcut, speak, get usable text in the current app. It is a one-person project with no company entity published and no Windows or mobile build, so treat it as a personal tool rather than something to standardise a team on.
Pros
- Works system-wide from a keyboard shortcut instead of inside one editor
- Cleans up spoken filler into finished text rather than dumping a raw transcript
- Vendor states it uses zero-data-retention endpoints via OpenRouter
- $3.99/month with a free first month is at the low end for dictation tools
Cons
- macOS only, with no timeline given for other platforms
- No company name, address or terms of service is published anywhere on the site
- Depends on OpenRouter as an intermediary you cannot swap out
Best for
- Mac users who draft faster by talking than typing
- People writing in several languages across Slack, Notion and email
- Anyone who wants dictation without a per-minute transcription bill
Not for
- Windows or Linux users — there is no build for either
- Teams that need a named vendor entity, a DPA or procurement paperwork
Watch out: The privacy policy itself admits the minimal-retention design is not an absolute legal guarantee in every use case.
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