A voice keyboard for iPhone. Tap ƒ, talk, and type at the speed of thought — entirely on your device.
Free during beta · iPhone 11 or later, iOS 26+
Not a promise — an architecture. There is nowhere for them to go. Read the privacy policy →
Whisper runs on your iPhone's Neural Engine, via Core ML. Your audio is processed where you spoke it, and nowhere else.
No accounts, no analytics, no servers. Forte's App Store privacy label reads “Data Not Collected” — because there isn't any.
One model download, then the network is optional. Airplane mode is a feature demo, not a failure mode.
On the Forte keyboard, in any app. The mic arms and you're bounced right back to where you were typing.
Speak naturally. Say the punctuation when you want it exactly — “new paragraph”, “question mark”.
Your words insert where the cursor was. A Live Activity keeps an End button on the lock screen the whole time the mic is armed.
Teach Forte your names and jargon — highlight a word, tap once. Every entry also fixes its sound-alike misspellings automatically, right after transcription.
Highlight a misspelled word and the keyboard offers corrections — your vocabulary's spellings first. Tap to replace.
Space-bar trackpad with acceleration, word-by-word cursor hops, word delete, quick settings — dictation-first doesn't mean editing-last.
Good, Better, Best, or Multilingual — pick the speed/accuracy tradeoff per device. All of them run locally.
Words spoken, minutes saved versus typing, streaks, pace by hour — computed on your phone, for your eyes only.
Every dictation lands in History. If an app swallows an insert, the keyboard keeps it one tap away.
iOS keyboards can't use the microphone, so the Forte keyboard hands the recording job to the Forte app and gets your transcript back — a conversation that happens entirely on your phone, inside the app's own protected storage. Full Access is what iOS calls permission for the two to talk. iOS shows the same warning to every full-access keyboard; Forte's keyboard contains no networking code at all, and the privacy policy puts that in writing.
iPhone 11 and later (SE 2nd generation included) on iOS 26 — the floor where on-device Whisper gets fast enough to feel instant.
English is tuned today. The Multilingual model handles major languages, with proper per-language support on the roadmap.
The beta is free. When Forte ships, it will be a purchase, not a subscription — nothing about on-device transcription costs us monthly, so it shouldn't cost you monthly either.
Forte is in a small private beta on TestFlight. Leave your name and email and we'll send invites in waves as seats open — every tester gets a person, not a pipeline.
Seats are capped while we read every piece of feedback.