Type Without Touching the Keyboard
If extended typing hurts, dictate instead: speak naturally and Harker types into any app for you.
Download FreeRSI, carpal tunnel, and similar conditions turn a normal workday of typing into accumulating pain. Cutting keyboard time usually means cutting output, and many dictation tools add friction of their own: separate windows, word caps, or audio sent to someone else's servers.
How Harker helps
Harker replaces typing with speaking for the bulk of your text entry. One press of the global shortcut (or hold-to-listen: hold a key, talk, release) and your words are transcribed and pasted at your cursor in whatever app you're using. Emails, documents, messages, forms: if you can place a cursor there, you can dictate there.
There's no word cap and no time limit, because transcription runs locally on your Mac. Long dictation sessions are free, unlimited, and work offline. Your voice, and anything personal you say, never leaves your device.
To be clear about scope: Harker handles text entry, not full computer control. You still use your pointer or a key press to position the cursor and start dictation. For hands-free navigation of macOS itself, Apple's built-in Voice Control is the right tool, and Harker works well alongside it as the fast, unlimited way to get words onto the screen.
How it works
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Set your shortcut
Pick the global shortcut or hold-to-listen key that's most comfortable: one press or hold is all the keyboard you need.
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Speak naturally
Talk at your own pace. Local Whisper transcribes on your device.
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Text is typed for you
The transcription is pasted at your cursor in the active app. No further keystrokes.
Harker saves me hours every week. It's become a core part of how I vibe-code apps and move from idea to working product faster.
Charles Green
My favourite part about Harker compared to all the other voice-to-text tools is that it's built for privacy... everything stays locally, and my thoughts and brilliant ideas are not floating around in the cloud somewhere.
Tara Thompson
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