speak.
press , right here. tälli comes to your cursor and listens, the way it does on your mac.
Okay, äh, slept badly again. I think it's the stress, ähm, with the deadline.
a voice journal for the mac
think out loud.
say it the way it comes: unfinished, hesitant, in your language. tällmi keeps every word and finds it again later.
äh included.(äh: german for “uh”, the sound of thinking.)
the idea
äh is the sound of thinking.*
talk the way you think, with pauses and restarts, in your language. the äh stays in. messy is good, and it works.
*in german.
kept
every word stays.
your thought stays exactly as you said it, äh included, next to everything you've said before.
connected
and finds what belongs together.
people, places, topics and feelings link up across your thoughts, in your language. worked out on your mac, never sent anywhere.
found
search by meaning.
ask for “sleep”, find “tired” and “woke up at 4”.
scroll
two ways in
speak to get it out.
write to get it right.
write.
when a thought wants more care, write it, in the same place, with headings and lists.
what helped this week
- a long walk with Sam
- no phone after ten
- eight hours, finally
your words stay exactly as you said or typed them. tällmi never rewrites them.
privacy
your thoughts
are yours.
not big tech's. not an ad network's. not ours either. a journal only works if you can say anything in it, so tällmi keeps everything on your mac, and has no way to send it anywhere.
no internet, by design.
the app is built without network access. transcription, search and answers run on your mac's own chip, in flight mode too.
no account. no cloud.
nothing to sign up for, and no server that holds your thoughts. there is no tällmi server.
sealed, even when synced.
every thought is encrypted with a key in your mac's keychain. sync through any folder you like: what lands there is unreadable. your recovery key is the only spare.
plain files, yours to take.
export everything as markdown and audio whenever you want, readable in any text editor, with or without tällmi.
–cookies on this page
–requests to other servers
–things stored in your browser
counted live by your browser, right now.
- the one download is the speech and language models, once, when you start it. each file is checked against a fixed fingerprint.
- later, if you want, ai apps on this mac will be able to read your thoughts through a local connection. it will stay off until you switch it on.
try it
try it. shape it.
tällmi is early. use it, tell us what's missing, or help build it.
try tällmian early version, for macs with apple silicon and macOS 26.
the first time, macOS stops it. choose open anyway in system settings → privacy & security.