Granola adds free AI dictation across Mac apps
Granola’s new dictation feature turns speech into cleaned, formatted text in any Mac app after the user presses Fn; iOS and Windows versions are also planned.
AT A GLANCE
Key points
- Pressing Fn starts dictation across Mac apps.
- Granola cleans and formats speech before inserting the text.
- The company says the feature is free with unlimited words.
- iOS and Windows support is planned.
What is changing?
AI meeting-notes app Granola announced system-wide dictation for Mac on October 29. Users press the Fn key and speak; Granola transcribes the audio, removes filler, adjusts punctuation and formatting, and inserts the result into the active app’s text field.
The feature works across apps for drafting notes, replying to email and messages, or dictating prompts to AI tools. Granola’s official post, quoted by TechCrunch, says it is free with unlimited words. iOS and Windows support is planned, although no release dates were disclosed.
Granola is therefore expanding from meeting capture into writing outside meetings. For production teams, the gain is moving a spoken first draft directly into the tool already in use, while sensitive content still requires separate evaluation of audio processing and organisational policy.
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Source date: 29 October 2026.
Published by AI Radar: 30 Oct 2026, 02:14 (Istanbul, UTC+3).
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