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Dictation and translation that run on your iPhone and your computer. Your voice is turned into text on your device. Translation runs on your device too, unless you choose a cloud service, and then only the text goes to it.
iPhone: 14-day free trial. Mac, Windows and Linux: free and open source.
The name comes from Latin bifarius, "twofold". Every recording is one of two kinds, and the color tells you which.
Speak in any language. Bifaria turns it into clean text with punctuation, numbers and no "um"s, then pastes it where your cursor is or copies it on iPhone.
Speak in your language and get the text in another one. Write to a colleague in English while you think in Ukrainian, Spanish or German.
Parakeet runs on Apple's Neural Engine on iPhone and Mac. On Windows and Linux, Whisper uses your graphics card.
Apple's on-device translation on iPhone and Mac, and offline translation models on Windows and Linux. Each language downloads once.
On computers, a hotkey types into whatever you're using. On iPhone, Back Tap, the widget and the Dynamic Island start and stop a recording without opening Bifaria.
Pick a style: natural speech, a prompt for AI tools, or word for word. "Two hundred and fifty" becomes 250, and "4 30 PM" becomes 4:30 PM.
Search, copy and fix past dictations while the recording plays. Keep audio and text, text only, or nothing at all.
Drop in a voice memo or a video and get the transcript, or try a different model or translation on a recording you kept.
Most dictation apps send your voice to a server and charge you every month for it. Your phone and your computer can do this work themselves, so Bifaria does it there.
The code of the computer app is public. Anyone can read exactly what it does with your voice.
Read the code on GitHub14 days free
Everything included, no sign-up. Then a yearly plan or a one-time purchase. If you don't buy, your history and copying keep working; only recording stops.
Coming soon to the App StoreiOS 18 or later.
Free
Open source, with no trial, no limits and no account. Updates arrive on their own.
Download for your computermacOS 11+, Windows 10 & 11, and Linux (AppImage, .deb, .rpm).
Yes. Once a speech model and your translation languages are downloaded, Bifaria needs no internet connection at all.
Parakeet covers 25 European languages, including English, Ukrainian, Spanish, German and French. Whisper covers about a hundred. Translation languages depend on the service you choose.
The computer app started as an open-source project and stays that way. The iPhone app has App Store costs and its own iOS work behind it. There's no subscription for servers, because there are no servers: you pay for the app, not for processing your voice.
New recordings need a plan. Your history, logs and copying keep working, and nothing is deleted.
See the support page, or open an issue and we'll reply there.
Bifaria