Menu bar dictation app
Mumbli lives in your Mac’s menu bar. No Dock icon. No window to manage. It’s always one keypress away, and invisible when you don’t need it.Always there, never in the way
Mumbli runs as a menu bar only app. When you’re not dictating, the only sign it exists is a small icon in your menu bar. When you are dictating, a subtle overlay appears near your cursor — just enough to know it’s listening.What the menu bar gives you
Click the Mumbli icon in your menu bar to access:- Dictation history — Every dictation saved with timestamps, most recent first
- Copy to clipboard — Click any history entry to copy it
- Settings — Engine selection, custom vocabulary, API keys
- Quit — Clean exit
The overlay
When you hold Fn to dictate, a small floating overlay appears near your cursor:- Listening state — Animated dots respond to your voice volume (VU meter style)
- Processing state — Brief “thinking” indicator while text is being polished
- Non-intrusive — Click-through when inactive, always on top when active
- Auto-dismiss — Disappears the moment dictation is done
Two ways to dictate
| Mode | Activation | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Hold mode | Hold Fn | Quick phrases, short replies |
| Hands-free | Double-tap Fn | Longer dictation, when hands are busy |
Why menu bar?
A dictation app should be infrastructure, not an application. You don’t want to “open your dictation app” — you want to speak and have text appear. The menu bar is the right home for tools that should be instantly available but never in the way.Download Mumbli
Free and open source. macOS 13.0+ required.