As a writer who’s been stuck trying to transfer an entire manuscript from paper to screen, I’ve battled with typing fatigue more times than I’d like to admit.
Manually re-typing chapters was exhausting, my wrists hurt, my keyboard frowns at me lol, and the process hinders my creative flow. I've tried other AI Speech to text tools but they all have short comings.
I tried Ito . It has great response time (Terrific), almost instant, and the accuracy genuinely shocked meit catches punctuation, names, indentation and likes.
The interface is simple, clean, and so easy to use that it feels like having a personal assistant right on your Text you just have to use your Shortcut button or just "Hey Ito" it.
I’ve been able to dictate huge parts of my manuscript without losing momentum, and the progress is the fastest I’ve made in months. Ito could still get even better with features like offline mode, voice-style detection, and cross-device sync, but even without these, it has already become a productivity cheat code for writers, students, and anyone who types a lot. If typing feels overwhelming, Ito is the perfect escape plan and my fingers have never been more grateful.
Dictly
Ito
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Barron Caster, co-founder of Ito.ai!
Why Ito
We believe the future of interacting with technology is through voice, which is more natural than typing. With AI exploding, everyone deserves their own Jarvis. We built Ito because we think your voice assistant should be open source for transparency and customization. We only saw closed or dictation-focused tools out there.
Ito is a voice assistant that understands what you actually want (and eventually will take actions on your behalf).
The Problem
Typing remains the biggest bottleneck to human-computer interactions. Most voice tools fall short with limited or clunky approaches:
Basic dictation apps transcribe but don’t handle context, formatting, or real intent. Some nail transcribing but miss the bigger picture of taking work off your plate.
General assistants (Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant) excel at reminders or searches but fumble in professional workflows, ignoring custom vocab or app-specific actions.
Overreaching permissions are required by other closed-source companies while they install keyloggers without visibility into what they are tracking.
With years of speech recognition experience, we built Ito.ai to be a real voice assistant - not just a way to type a little faster.
How Ito.ai is Different
Ito introduces VibeTyping - type what you want to say.
Ito understands what you actually want and writes like you mean it. It transforms your words into polished content anywhere on Mac or Windows.
Intent over words: Unlike rigid dictation, Ito understands nuance. Draft a full email, crank out React code, craft a PRD, or polish a tweet with context-awareness.
Works everywhere, instantly: Hit a hotkey in any text box (Slack, Notion, Google Docs, Cursor), speak, and watch it generate formatted drafts, code snippets, or messages.
Fully yours to tweak: Open-source and community-powered. Add custom vocabulary, personalize styles from past chats, and even build voice-driven workflows for accessibility. No black-box lock-in.
Fast out of the gate: Ito is fast.
Open: As privacy advocates, we built a product that you can audit yourself, especially given the extensive permissions needed.
Who is this for?
If you type, Ito frees you to speak your mind and save time. Developers, marketers, Product Hunters, and more.
Get started today
Download Ito for free at Ito.ai. It’s open source, so if you don’t like it, fork it
Move AI
Ito
@philsalesses Yes and it's getting more personalized over time to match your natural writing style.
@barroncaster I love this.
@barroncaster Love this, I already use voice typing and AI to fix dictation mistakes. The future of AI is Voice AI, indeed! :)
It worked wonderfully when you first launched.
Guess I should've set to auto-start, forgot iTo was on board until today
(Full transparancy-- I've also been taking wisprFlow and talkTastic thru the paces.)
I downloaded at your first launch, and was impressed.
After a PH alert today about ITO, I launched it again, turned off the other transcriber before testing iTo, clicked install update, held shortcut, and then... well, nothing.
Ver. now installed: Version 0.15.17 (0.15.17)
Invoking of Keyboard Shortcut results: no transcription.
Relaunch has no effect so far, any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for your reply,
— Michael
System: MacOS 26.0.1 (25A362) on a macStudio, yeti mike.
Ito
@michael_langham Thanks so much for giving Ito a try and for being one of our early users!
We recently revamped how auto-updates work, so if you were on a 14.x version before, it’s totally possible things got a bit out of sync with the new process. The quickest fix is to uninstall and grab the latest version from our website, that should set everything straight.
Let us know how it goes! Always happy to help and we can jump on a quick call anytime if that’s easier.
-Julian (Ito dev team)
Raycast
There's a lot of competition in this space — and so I love that Ito is open source!
Bold choice to go with GPL v3!
It's also cross-platform from the jump, and includes a Rust toolchain for building native components, meaning it's faaaaast.
Very curious to learn about the roadmap...
Ito
@chrismessina
There's a ton of competition in this space but not a lot of open source options. Especially when you look at the amount of resources deployed, most people are creating closed source applications. This was surprising to me because the permissions that dictation applications require are extensive. We choose GPL v3 to show our commitment to open-source. We can't just start adding pro features behind our own closed source version.
It's based on electron but put the hot paths in rust to balance performance with quick and stable UI development. We currently have Windows and MacOS binaries available.
As for the roadmap, we're using github issues
Smart dictation apps essentially boil down to speed, quality and integrations. Our goal is to eventually create a Raycast like plugin ecosystem so people can contribute their own specific integrations.
Actions are also on the horizon, so you can use voice to fully control your computer.
Move AI
Ito
@philsalesses In our testing, Groq had the best latency with their ASICs. We're still working on local models which should be doable with high quality using something like parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3. To get the llm side working locally though is pretty challenging as we default to gpt-oss-120b
Dashblock
@Ito user here! Super cool product + Barron & Evan rock :)
Congrats on the launch team Ito 🔥🔥🔥
Ito
@mxcrbn Thanks so much for the support! Ito is moving fast and we have many new features and capabilities planned for the upcoming future. Any ideas and requests please feel free to add them to our github! https://github.com/heyito/ito/issues
Ito
@mxcrbn thanks for being an early Ito user! We're always looking for feedback on how to improve our product and we're very excited to get more people incorporating Ito into their workflows!
Ito
Hey everyone 👋, I'm Arjun and I lead product here at Ito.ai.
You know that 3-minute gap between back-to-back meetings?
That’s where my ideas used to die. Each new meeting brings new context, new faces, new problems. And whatever clarity I had from the last one was gone.
That’s what motivated us to build Ito - a voice assistant that understands what you’re trying to say, not just what you said, and gives you leverage in your workflow.
In practice:
Code review thoughts → speak the feedback → Ito formats it with proper markdown
Post-meeting clarity → capture action items while they're fresh → formatted task list ready
Brainstorm mode → speak stream-of-consciousness → get it back as coherent sections
How it works: Intent over words.
Speak the vibe and the goal. Ito handles the formatting, structure, and polish. No micromanaging punctuation. Just capture your intention.
Our principles:
Open by default - Transparent code and permissions so you can audit, extend, and trust the assistant that lives inside your OS
Fast and frictionless - If it takes longer than typing, we've failed. Speed isn't a feature; it's the foundation.
Launch-day asks 🙏
Tell us your top 3 repetitive writing tasks, and we'll prioritize Ito's skills around them
Share edge cases where the tone or formatting isn't quite right
Give us ideas on features and use cases to build - Ito is a community-led effort, after all
Thanks for giving Ito a spin and for helping us build an assistant that actually assists.
Filo Mail
Huge congrats, Barron & Evan! Been following Ito for a while and it’s awesome to see it finally launch on Product Hunt. Love the VibeType vision—and extra kudos for releasing it open-source. Keep the updates coming! 🚀
Ito
@justin_bao Thanks!! Appreciate the love
Being open source is very important for this kind of tool, and also collecting user feedback vigorously is the only way you can truly know what’s important and is predestined for success.
I wish I could just voice to text this instead of typing… oh wait!