Lemonade Voice Free

Prompting at the
speed of sound.

Press a hotkey, speak, and your words land as text wherever your cursor is — your editor, your browser, your terminal. Local-first with whisper.cpp, or bring your own API key. No subscription, no cloud lock-in.

Download for Windows macOS — coming soon

Free forever · Local & private · No account required

idle — hold the button below, or grab the pill and drag it

Your transcript shows up here, then lands in whatever app has focus.

in the app: hold CtrlShiftSpace anywhere · drag the pill — every press is a drag · see the error state

// What's inside

Dictation that stays
out of your way.

Global hotkey

One shortcut, works in every app. Push-to-talk or toggle. Your cursor never has to leave what you're doing.

Local & private

Run whisper.cpp entirely on-device. Your audio never leaves your machine — no cloud, no account, no telemetry.

Bring your own key

Prefer the cloud? Plug in Groq, OpenAI, Deepgram, AssemblyAI, or OpenRouter. Keys live in your OS keychain — never in plaintext.

Floating pill widget

A tiny always-on-top pill with a live waveform. Three styles — expanded, compact, micro. Drag it anywhere or snap it to an edge.

Auto-paste & copy

Finished transcripts drop straight into the focused field, land on your clipboard, or both. Stop speaking and keep moving.

Dictionary & snippets

Teach it your vocabulary — "dot net" becomes ".NET". Map a spoken trigger to a saved block of text. Your words, your rules.

// How it works

Press. Speak. Done.

No window to open, no button to find. Hold your hotkey, say what you mean, and let it go. The text is already where you wanted it.

01

Hold the hotkey

The logo tile flips to your accent color and the 24-bar waveform tracks your voice live. Works from any app, fullscreen included.
02

Speak naturally

whisper.cpp transcribes on-device, or your chosen provider streams it back in a blink. A white wave sweeps the bars while it works.
03

Let go — it's typed

Cleaned up through your dictionary and pasted into the focused field. Keep working.

idle — dead line

recording — live rms

transcribing — sweep

error — auto-recovers

these are the app's actual CSS animations — not a re-creation

// Your engine, your call

Run it local. Or run it fast.

Local

whisper.cpp on your own hardware. Fully offline, fully private. Pick the model size that fits your machine — tiny to large.

Cloud

Bring your own API key for the fastest, most accurate models. Groq, OpenAI, Deepgram, AssemblyAI & OpenRouter supported.

Switch anytime

Flip between local and cloud in a click — no reinstall, no reconfigure. Offline on a plane, cloud at your desk.

Groq OpenAI Deepgram AssemblyAI OpenRouter + local whisper.cpp

// Agent-native config

Your AI agent
tunes it for you.

Your dictionary, snippets, and provider list are plain JSON files with a bundled AGENTS.md — so any coding agent can read and edit them. Just ask in plain English; Lemonade ships matching Claude skills that wrap the exact same files.

lemonade-dictionary

Find→replace rules applied to every transcript — "dot net" → ".NET".

lemonade-snippets

Voice macros — say "my email" and it expands to the saved text.

lemonade-providers

Manage cloud STT providers & model lists. Keys stay in your keychain.

claude — lemonade-voice

▸ add "k eight s" → "k8s" and "dot net" → ".NET" to my dictionary

⏺ lemonade-dictionary (add)

Editing dictionary.json …

+ "k eight s" → "k8s"

+ "dot net" → ".NET"

✓ 2 rules added — live on your next transcript.

▸ ▍

no menus, no JSON by hand — just say what you want changed

// Familiar by design

The same Lemonade
you already know.

Voice ships in the exact visual language as the Lemonade terminal — the 3px-radius signature, restrained typography, and all four themes. The pill's logo tile even re-colors itself per theme so it always reads cleanly.

› 4 themes — Lemonade, Nord, Mono Light, Mono Dark
› Multi-language transcription
› Sound cues, confidence threshold & device picker
› Tiny footprint — a Tauri app, not an Electron one

theme

Lemonade

the tile swaps to a theme-matched mark on Nord & Mono Light

Prompting at thespeed of sound.

Dictation that staysout of your way.