Built for one hand, and for everyone.

In the app

• One key does everything. The default hotkey is a double-tap of Left Option, one key at the bottom-left of your keyboard. Typing with your right hand? Pick Right Option or any key you can reach. Single tap, hold-to-talk, and tap-or-hold modes are one click away.
• Any key, mouse button, or foot pedal can be your hotkey. Press it once in the hotkey box to set it.
• Mouse-only use: a floating Dictate button and the menu bar icon start, stop, and cancel dictation, and clicking them never takes you out of the app you're typing in.
• VoiceOver, the Mac's built-in screen reader, announces "Listening," "Writing it down," and then "Typed" or "Copied to clipboard," and reads out any message OliType shows.
• Sound cues play when listening starts and stops, so you know without looking. Five styles, or off.
• Larger text in Help: from 70% to 250%. Use the text size buttons, or hold Command and press plus or minus; Command and zero resets it.
• Using Sticky Keys? Sticky Keys may lock a modifier key like Option when you press it twice, so pick a key that isn't a modifier (such as F5) or use hold-to-talk.
• Forgiving: a single Esc cancels without typing, and Restore brings a cancelled dictation back for a day.
• Plain language throughout, with an explanation under every setting.

On this website

• A "Skip to main content" link, real headings and landmarks, and a visible focus ring on everything you can reach with Tab.
• Text and controls meet WCAG 2.2 AA color contrast in both light and dark mode.
• Animations stop when your Mac is set to Reduce motion.
• Pages work when zoomed to 200% and on a phone-width screen.

Tell us what's in your way

If something in OliType or on this site is hard to use with the way you work, we want to know. Write to support@olitype.com and tell us what you were trying to do.