4x your dev speed.
Stop typing, start talking.

Hold Option + Space anywhere on your Mac and start talking. bolo transcribes your speech in real-time, then cleans up the text — fixing filler words, punctuation, and formatting — and auto-pastes the result wherever your cursor is.

Near-instant. Hold the shortcut, speak naturally, and release — your formatted text appears in under a second. bolo is optimized for speed so it never breaks your flow.

bolo supports 98 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, and many more. Language is auto-detected, so you can switch languages mid-conversation.

macOS Dictation gives you raw speech-to-text. bolo goes further: it uses AI to clean up filler words, fix grammar, add proper punctuation, and format text based on context. Dictating a Slack message produces casual text; dictating code produces properly formatted code. bolo understands what you mean, not just what you said.

Your audio is transcribed and then discarded — it is never stored or retained. Only the transcribed text is processed by AI for formatting. Your voice recordings are not kept anywhere.

bolo is free to download with 2,000 words per week included. For unlimited dictation and full AI formatting, upgrade to the Individual plan starting at £12/month.

macOS only. Optimized for M1 and later. Intel Macs are supported but transcription will be slower. Windows and Linux support may come in the future.