Mac only. No mobile version. No Windows support. Freeway won't help you if you're on anything other than macOS.
Hit a hotkey and start talking once you accept that limitation. Your words appear wherever your cursor sits — any app, any website, any text field on your Mac.
The speed difference matters. Speaking clocks in at 4 times faster than typing, which adds up when you're cranking out emails or documents. A freelance journalist on deadline can dictate interview notes directly into their editor instead of hunting and pecking through quotes.
Everything runs on your machine using Apple Silicon or Intel hardware. No internet required. Your voice never gets uploaded anywhere. Not a single byte leaves your device. Freeway uses NVIDIA's Parakeet v3 speech recognition model, optimized for Apple's chips through CoreML.
Twenty-five languages work out of the box. English. Spanish. French. German and others. Recognition quality seems solid enough for daily use, though you'll still need to clean up the occasional mistake.
Completely free. No subscriptions, no per-seat pricing, no hidden costs. Freeway doesn't ask for your credit card or lock features behind paywalls. You download it and use it. The privacy-first approach makes sense for anyone who deals with sensitive information but still wants voice input without cloud dependency.