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Your voice never leaves your Mac.

Whisper-grade dictation running 100% on your Apple silicon. No cloud. No account. No subscription. Hold fn, speak, release, and clean text lands in whatever app you are typing in.

Founding members get first access when Beam ships. No spam. One email when Beam ships.

On device No account Pay once

Ship the beta to the waitlist on Friday morning.

Figure 1Text streams the instant you speak and settles into a finished line. Shown here in a note. In practice it lands in whatever app holds your cursor. 0 bytes of audio leave the Mac.

100%On device

0.77^*%Word error rate

0Bytes uploaded

∞Works offline

* Word error rate of the NVIDIA Parakeet family model that powers Beam's Instant engine, measured on standard English speech recognition benchmarks.

Everyone else sends your voice to a server. We do not have one.

Turn the Wi-Fi off. It still works.

I. The gesture

One key. No windows, no modes, no setup.

Hold

Press and hold the fn key from anywhere. Your editor, your terminal, a message box.

Speak

Talk normally. Words stream onto the screen as you say them, not after.

Done. Clean text, right where your cursor was.

Release

Let go of the key. Punctuated, readable text stays behind. Nothing else does.

II. Where your voice goes

Nowhere.

Beam runs its speech model on your Mac's own GPU, through Metal, on Apple silicon. No cloud. No accounts. No audio uploads, ever. There is no server on the other end because there is no other end.

Most tools: your voice → their servers → text comes back
Beam: your voice → your GPU → text, on the spot

It works with the network cable cut.

III. The negative space

What Beam does not do.

Most of what makes Beam safe is what it leaves out. There is nothing to opt out of, because the machinery to collect was never built.

NouploadsAudio never leaves the disk

NotelemetryNothing phones home

NologinNo account to create

Nomonthly billPay once

Nocloud fallbackIt never reaches out

The absence is the product.

IV. The alternatives

Most tools ship your voice out. Beam keeps it in.

The cloud ones upload your audio, make you create an account, and bill you every month. Beam does the work on your Mac, and you pay for it once.

The cloud ones

Beam

Your audio

Uploaded to their servers

Your audio

Stays on your Mac

Account

Required

Account

None

Billing

Every month, forever

Billing

Once

And the dictation already built into your Mac? Beam goes further: it learns the jargon you actually use, punctuates as you speak, and cleans up the filler so the text reads like you meant to write it.

V. The learning loop

Teach it a word once. It stays taught.

Names, jargon, Hinglish. Correct Beam one time and it remembers, in a dictionary that lives on your Mac like everything else it knows about you. The correction never leaves either.

First passAfter you teach it

pree ya venkat ramanPriya Venkataraman

swift you eyeSwiftUI

chalta hairchalta hai

kuber nettiesKubernetes

VI. Confidential by design

Built for work you cannot put in the cloud.

A privileged conversation. A patient session. A source who spoke on condition. If the words cannot leave the room, the tool that captures them cannot leave the machine. Because no audio is ever sent anywhere, none of it can be subpoenaed from a server that does not exist.

Legal Therapy Medical Journalism

We cannot screenshot your screen, log your keystrokes, or read your audio.

None of it ever leaves your Mac. Not policy. Architecture.

VII. The particulars

A small, fast, native thing.

Beam lives in the menu bar. A native Mac app, built for Apple silicon, small on disk and quick to wake. One capsule on your screen when you speak, and nothing at all when you do not.

Runs onApple Silicon
NetworkNot required
AccountNone
Audio keptOn your disk only

VIII. Last thing

Be there when Beam lands.

Founding members get first access when Beam ships.

No spam. One email when Beam ships.