{"slug": "just-ink-it", "title": "Just Ink It", "summary": "Cartesia AI released InkIt, an open-source macOS dictation app that transcribes speech 3x faster than typing, supports hands-free use, and integrates with any app. The app offers automatic punctuation, filler word removal, and searchable dictation history, requiring a free Cartesia API key for up to 15,000 words per month.", "body_md": "**Get hours back every week.** You talk 3× faster than you type. Start talking, stop typing.**Heard right the first time.** Stays accurate when you're whispering or talking over background noise, so there's less to fix.**Use it in every app you already live in.** Editor, browser, chat, terminal: your words land right at the cursor, no copy-paste.**Talk your way.** Hold a key to dictate, or go fully hands-free. Set whatever shortcut feels natural.**No ums, no filler.** Polish tidies your speech and punctuation automatically, without rewriting your words.**Never lose a thought.** Every dictation is saved and searchable, right on your Mac.**Make it yours.** Light or dark, your mic, your shortcut. Tune it to how you work.\n\n- Download via the button above and move InkIt to your Applications folder.\n- Launch InkIt. Go through a quick onboarding to set up Microphone and Accessibility access.\n- Grab a free\n[Cartesia API key](https://play.cartesia.ai), good for about 15,000 words a month. - (Optional) Turn on Polish with your own key from Groq, Google Gemini, OpenAI, or Anthropic.\n\nInkIt is open source but not open contribution.\n\nFork and modify it for your own use. Pull requests aren't guaranteed a review: see [CONTRIBUTING.md](/cartesia-ai/InkIt/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md). Bug reports and feedback go [here](https://forms.gle/jXNtDsTaLt2rKQ8N9).\n\n**Build from source** (Xcode 15+ and XcodeGen)\n\n```\nbrew install xcodegen\nxcodegen generate\nopen InkIt.xcodeproj\n```\n\nInstall the build:\n\n```\ncp -R build/Build/Products/Release/InkIt.app /Applications/\n```\n\nChanges only take effect after you replace `/Applications/InkIt.app`\n\n. Rebuilding alone isn't enough.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/just-ink-it", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/cartesia-ai/InkIt", "published_at": "2026-06-16 11:23:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 11:48:53.969790+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Cartesia AI", "InkIt", "Groq", "Google Gemini", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Xcode"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/just-ink-it", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/just-ink-it.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/just-ink-it.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/just-ink-it.jsonld"}}