Use your whole Mac by voice.

hushtype understands the way people actually ask: “open Safari”, “fire up Safari”, “could you open Safari please”. We count every phrasing the app really accepts and keep only the ones that do exactly the right thing: 156,597 of them, covering 5,825 different actions, from opening any of your apps and moving windows to “volume to 40”, “press command shift four”, “move back three words” and “click 12”.

Menus in any app. Say any item in the app in front: “click Export as PDF”, “choose Show Sidebar”, “View, Enter Full Screen”, or just “show sidebar”. hushtype reads the menu bar of the app you are in, so new apps work without waiting for an update. Anything that deletes, sends, quits or logs out asks first.

Your apps, by name. 38 built-in packs for the apps people use most, from browsers, Finder, Mail and Calendar to Word, Excel, Teams, Zoom, Slack, VS Code, Xcode, Figma and Notion: “reply all”, “new slide”, “build”, “take a selfie”.

Submit and send. “Submit” presses the form’s Submit, OK, Done or Continue button, or Return. “Send it” sends, after you say yes.

How we count: the counted list uses 60 common apps; on your Mac it follows your own apps. Sentences you dictate stay sentences: “I’ll submit the report tomorrow” is typed, not run. Commands are English for now.

There are three ways to give a command. Hold the command key you choose, say it, let go. Say it while dictating, as a whole sentence. Or switch on always-listening and start with your wake phrase: “hey hushtype, open Mail”.

After a command it keeps listening for a few seconds, so you can carry on without the wake phrase. “Go to sleep” stops it acting on anything but “wake up”. “Command mode” makes the dictation key take commands only; “dictation mode” switches back; “spelling mode” spells.

Chains run in one breath (“open Safari and go to apple dot com”, “left half then switch to Mail and right half”), and “again” or “do that three times” repeats the last one.

A panel near the top of the screen shows what was heard and what will run. A large version suits low vision or reading across the room, a sound can play when a command is recognised, and answers can be read aloud. “What can I say” lists every command for the app in front.

Say an app's name the way you would to a person. Names are matched by spelling and by sound, so a recogniser's guess such as “x code” or “photo shop” still finds Xcode or Photoshop. Apps you started from an odd place, like a disk image, count too.

Folders open by their everyday names: Downloads, Documents, Desktop, Applications, Recents, iCloud Drive, AirDrop. “Open file quarterly report” asks your Mac's own search index for the most recently used file with that name and opens it.

Websites open in your browser when you say the address, dots and slashes included. Searches open your browser too; this app makes no connection of its own.

Window commands work on the window in front. Snap it to a half, a quarter or a third of the screen, centre it, let it fill the screen, make it a little bigger or smaller, or move it to your other display at the same relative spot.

Every move remembers where the window was, so “put the window back” undoes it. “Tile Safari and Notes” puts Safari on the left half and Notes on the right.

Say “click” and the name of a button, tab, checkbox, link or menu item. When two things share a name, a button wins over plain text; when nothing on screen matches, the app's menus are searched.

“Show numbers” puts a small number on everything you can click in the window in front and in the menu bar. Say the number, or “double click 12”, or “right click 7”. “Show names” labels them with their names instead.

For anything without a name, such as a spot on a map or a canvas, “show grid” lays a 3 by 3 grid over the screen (or the window, with “show window grid”). Say a number to zoom into that square, again and again, until the square is as small as a pointer, then say “click”.

Drag by number, name or grid square: “drag 14 to 34”, “drag that to the Trash”. Hover, hold and release the mouse, nudge the pointer, and scroll by lines, pages or all the way.

Menus go by path: “click File, Export as PDF” or “choose View, Show Sidebar”. A menu item whose name is unique can be clicked by its name alone.

“Press” takes any key and any modifiers: “press command shift four”, “press escape three times”. Letters can be said with the phonetic alphabet, so “press command tango” is ⌘T.

“Type” writes exactly what follows. “Spell” writes letters, digits and symbols one by one: “spell alpha bravo dash one” types ab-1, and “cap” makes the next letter a capital. Spelling mode keeps that up until you say “dictation mode”.

Code formatters turn words into identifiers: “camel case user name” types userName, “snake case max retries” types max_retries, and so on for pascal, kebab, constant, dotted and path case.

In any text field, move the cursor by characters, words, lines, sentences, paragraphs, pages or the whole document, or jump to the start or end of any of them. Add “three times” to any of these.

Select the same way, or by what the text says: “select quarterly numbers” selects the nearest match before the cursor, and “select quick brown through lazy dog” selects everything from “quick brown” to the end of “lazy dog”.

“Replace cat with dog”, “insert very before fast” and “delete this paragraph” edit without touching the keyboard. Bold, italic and underline work on the selection.

Dictation and commands mix: while you dictate with the dictation key, a sentence that is a whole command runs, and everything else is typed.

“Show text numbers” puts a small number above every word you can see in the text field you are typing in. Then work by number: “select 12”, “select 3 through 6”, “delete 7”, “capitalise 3”, “upper case 2”, “replace 5 with Thursday”, “insert very after 5”, or “click 4” to put the cursor before word 4 (“move after 4” for after it). Saying a number on its own selects that word. After each change the words are numbered again, because they have moved. “Hide text numbers” takes them away.

“Correct that” shows a short numbered list beside the cursor: the recogniser's other guesses for what you just dictated, a version with a capital letter, and a singular or plural form. Say “choose 2” or click a line, and that text replaces what was typed. “Correct Thursday” does the same for one word, lined up against the other guesses, so “bark” can become “park” without retyping the sentence.

If none of the choices is right, choose “Spell it…” and spell the word with letters or the phonetic alphabet (“cap sierra alpha mike”); the rest of the sentence is put back after it.

The other guesses are kept only for your last dictation, in memory, and are gone as soon as you dictate again. They are never written to disk.

Set the volume to a number, mute, change brightness, play, pause and skip tracks. Switch dark mode, lock the screen, sleep the display, take a screenshot of the screen, a window or a selection.

Open Mission Control, the app's windows, the desktop, the next or previous Space, the grid of all your apps, Spotlight (with a search), Control Centre and Notification Centre.

Ask for the time, the date or the battery level; the answer shows in the command panel and can be read aloud.

Restart, shut down, log out and empty the Trash work by voice and always ask first.

“Turn on VoiceOver” and “turn off VoiceOver” press ⌘F5, the switch macOS itself gives VoiceOver, after checking whether it is already on. Once VoiceOver is running, its own keys and gestures are VoiceOver's.

Every pane people ask for opens directly: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Network, Notifications, Sound, Focus, Displays, Desktop and Dock, Battery, Keyboard, Privacy and Security, Accessibility, Users and Groups, Software Update and the rest. Everyday names work too: “dock”, “printers”, “microphone permission”.

Notifications on screen can be read out by number, opened or dismissed. “Open Notification Centre” shows the older ones.

When an app is in front, its pack adds words for it. In a browser: new tab, reopen tab, go to a site, find on the page, bookmark. In Mail: reply all, forward, archive, send. In Finder: new folder, show hidden files, quick look, as columns. In Zoom and Teams: mute, camera, raise hand, leave. In a code editor: command palette, go to file, go to line, toggle terminal.

Packs are plain JSON files. Export the built-in ones, change them, or import one a colleague made. A command in an imported pack that sends, deletes or shuts down always asks first, whatever the file says.

In Settings › Commands, write a phrase and the steps, one per line, in the same words you would say: “open Mail”, “left half”, “open Notes”, “right half”. Each line is checked as you type. A phrase can end in {text} to pass along whatever you say after it.

Commands can apply everywhere or only in one app, and can be set to ask first. “Run shortcut” runs any of your Shortcuts by name.