SayIt
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Private, local text-to-speech

Your Mac, out loud.

SayIt turns selected text into natural speech with open models running entirely on Apple silicon. No cloud, no accounts, no analytics — your words never leave the machine.

Download for macOS View on GitHub

macOS 15+ · Apple silicon · Free & open source

A first look

Press a hotkey. It reads.

The player floats in your menu bar — follow the spoken word, scrub the waveform, change the speed. Models download once from Hugging Face and speak offline from then on.

SayIt's menu-bar player showing a waveform, playback controls, and the spoken text with the current word highlighted
01The menu-bar player — waveform, seek, speed, history.
SayIt's model library listing open MLX models with sizes, licenses, and download buttons
02The model library — open models, one download away.

Free, open source, and yours.

Download for macOS