Sprich Review: German-Made Mac Dictation App for Apple Silicon

Sprich installs like any Mac app, so no terminal is needed. Download the .dmg from the official site, drag Sprich into Applications and open it; the download page lists version 2.2.4 at 18.2 MB.

Sprich is a push-to-talk dictation app for macOS, not a transcription editor. You hold a hotkey or toggle it, speak, and the text is pasted into the app that has focus. An optional clean-up pass, which the maker calls intelligent post-processing, fixes punctuation and filler words.

Beyond dictation it transcribes audio files such as M4A, MP3 and WAV, keeps a custom dictionary, and records meetings with system sound and microphone (since version 2.2.0 of 14 September 2026, FaceTime calls since 2.2.2), then adds speaker detection and a summary.

The about page says three friends from Germany founded Sprich in 2025, and the imprint names Victor Vollmann in Munich as the responsible person. This review draws on the website, changelog and privacy policy; PromptQuorum also ran one first-hand session on a 24 GB M4 Pro Mac (see Related Reading), which was a first look and not a full evaluation, so accuracy and speed are still not rated.

Sprich is built for German, and the maker says its speech model understands about 25 European languages. Dictation is optimized for German, with dialects, technical language and German-English mixes, and English terms inside a German sentence work well, per the maker. A changelog entry says German words are recognized more reliably since version 2.2.2.

The maker says the roughly 25 languages of the Parakeet model can be chosen when transcribing files. The maker's comparison page with Superwhisper says Sprich is mainly optimized for German and English.

The website, changelog, privacy policy and app interface are German only; the maker says this is a deliberate choice because the local version is optimized for German, so English screenshots do not exist yet. PromptQuorum did not test any language.

The maker says the Mac app transcribes on the device with Parakeet and a fine-tuned clean-up model, and that the local app sends no audio anywhere: the home page says no cloud, no API key and no data tracking, and the privacy policy says no audio or transcripts go to external servers. Model downloads come from the maker's cloud storage, and extra usage statistics need your consent.

Two earlier gaps are now answered by the maker. It says Whisper is not used and that the privacy policy entry naming it is outdated, and that the Windows application described in the policy is a separate cloud version for Mac and Windows, currently in beta, which is why the website still shows a waitlist. The maker says the cloud runs on its own server in Helsinki, only in memory, with nothing stored or used for training. Free-plan users still send their weekly and total word counts to the server, tied to the account, to enforce the limit; the text itself is not sent.

No source code or licence statement was found, so none of this can be checked in code, and PromptQuorum did not inspect network traffic. These statements are the maker's own.

Sprich has a free plan, a Pro subscription and a one-off Lifetime option, all priced in euros. Free costs nothing and includes 2,000 words a week, one file transcription, three meetings and five dictionary entries. Pro costs 8 € a month, or 6 € a month when billed yearly, with no limits listed.

Lifetime costs 150 € once and, per the site, includes all updates of the local app. A separate money-back offer with a code can refund up to three monthly Pro payments if you dictate 10,000 words a month; read its terms on the maker's page first.

These are the closest Mac dictation apps in the directory: a one-off-purchase Whisper app, a trial-then-paid app, a free open-source Mac app and a free open-source cross-platform app.

Sprich is a good fit if you dictate on an Apple Silicon Mac, mostly in German, and want a free plan, meeting notes and a one-off Lifetime price. The maker says transcription stays on the device, and version 2.2.4 is recent.

The caveats are verifiability and scope: a German-only website and app interface, about 25 European languages, a Windows version that is a cloud beta, no public source code and no Intel support. The maker's statements on models, privacy and languages are its own and untested here. Try the free plan before paying.