Hush: AI Dictation Keyboard

Say it instead of typing it. Hush is a dictation keyboard for iPhone that turns your voice into clean text in nearly any app, so you reply faster, type less and get ideas down before they slip away. Voice typing works right where you write: tap the mic, talk, and your words appear. Speech to text happens on your iPhone, so your audio is never uploaded.

WHAT YOU GET BACK

Time, on every reply
Messages, email, notes, AI prompts: tap the mic on the Hush keyboard, speak, and the text lands in the field you were typing in. No copying, no switching apps.

The thought, before it's gone
Start dictating from Control Center, the Lock Screen, the Action Button, Back Tap or Siri, without opening Hush first. Your words wait in the Hush keyboard, ready to insert, and in History.

Text that reads the way you meant it
Hush takes out the "um"s and "uh"s for you. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, Smart cleanup also smooths false starts and repeated words. Your original transcript is always kept.

Names spelled right, every time after
Teach Hush the names, places and jargon it hears wrong with custom vocabulary, and it writes them your way from then on.

Anything you've said, findable
Every dictation is saved in History on your iPhone. Search the cleaned-up or original text, then copy, share, edit or delete it.

Room for longer thoughts
Talk for up to five minutes at a time, from the keyboard or in the app. For longer recordings in the app, Hush shows how far transcription has got.

A keyboard for when you'd rather type
Switch between a compact row (mic, emoji, space, delete, return) that leaves more of the screen free and a full keyboard with autocorrect and suggestions. The emoji panel keeps your recent emoji first. Typing works even with Full Access off.

PRIVACY FOR WHAT YOU SAY

Your speech is turned into text by an AI speech model running on your iPhone's Neural Engine, and cleanup runs on your iPhone too. Your audio and transcripts aren't sent to us or anyone else, and there's no account to create. Hush uses the network only to download the speech model and to check your purchase. Once the model is downloaded, dictation works offline.

PAY ONCE

Hush is free to download. A single in-app purchase of $9.99 (US) unlocks it for good: no subscription, no renewals. Family Sharing is supported, so one purchase covers your family.

THE DETAILS

• Choose English, or a multilingual model that recognises 25 European languages automatically. Either is a one-time download of under 500 MB.
• Requires iOS 26.
• While Hush is listening, iOS shows the orange microphone indicator and a Live Activity, and you can end the session at any time.
• Some apps, password fields and secure text fields don't allow third-party keyboards; there, iOS switches to its own keyboard.

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