Deckle
Support
Local Mac app. No account. Speech stays on your machine.
Use it
- Open Deckle on your Mac.
- Paste text, drop a screenshot, capture or live-watch a screen region, drop an audio file, or paste a link.
- Press Read. Pause, the timeline, Previous, and Next move through the text.
- Click Save audio if you want an M4A file.
The $19 purchase & license key
Deckle is a $19 one-time purchase. Buy $19 is in the window from the first open. The direct edition also starts a 14-day trial on that Mac. When the trial ends, Read, screenshot and region reading, link fetch, and Save audio stop until a license key is entered in Settings → License. Pressing Buy does not mark the app as purchased.
Common questions
Screen Recording. The first region capture may ask for permission. Recognition still happens on this Mac. If you deny it, capture stops while pasted text and dropped images continue to work.
Audio transcription & Dictation. On-device transcription of dropped audio files or Mac speaker output requires Dictation to be enabled in System Settings → Keyboard. If Dictation is off, the audio file still plays and saves.
A link needs the network. Deckle cannot download a page while offline. After the words are loaded, listening and saving audio do not use the network.
Browser check. Deckle opens a window only when the response is a real browser-check interstitial. You finish that check yourself.