Stop typing, just say it

Yes — snippets let you create trigger phrases that auto-expand into longer text as you dictate. Great for emails, phone numbers, signatures, and other repeated text. Set them up in Settings.

iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later.

Yes. Sayboard is open-source and free to build yourself if you have a Mac with Xcode and some developer experience. If you’d like to support development, you can buy the app on the App Store for a symbolic price. No subscriptions ever.

New models are added regularly as better ones become available. If you’re missing a specific model, send us an email — we’ll do our best to add it if technically feasible.

Speech models range from 29 MB to 466 MB depending on the model. The app also offers optional LLM models for smart text cleanup, which take from 551 MB to 2.1 GB. You can download only the models you need.

Some models need more RAM than your device has. Sayboard checks compatibility automatically and disables models your device can’t run. Speech models work on all supported devices, but larger LLM models may require a newer iPhone or iPad.

This is an iOS limitation — keyboard extensions cannot access the microphone on their own. Sayboard opens briefly to activate the mic and returns you right back. The switch is instant and only needed once per session. To see it less often, increase the session duration in Settings.

No. That is a standard iOS indicator showing that microphone access has been granted to the app. It does not mean Sayboard is recording. Recording runs only while the mic button is active. Sayboard is open-source — you can check the code to confirm that no background recording ever happens.