Read what you hear.
Live captions for films, calls and language lessons. In 25 languages, from your Mac's sound, your microphone, or both. Translate captions on-device with macOS 26 or later.
For Macs with Apple silicon.
macOS 14.2 or later.
Where you'll use it.
If your Mac plays it, Jimaky captions it. It floats over every app, even full-screen video.
Mac sound, microphone, or both.
Caption what your Mac plays, what your microphone hears, or both at once.
Both is made for language lessons: your teacher's words and your own, in one place. Your words get their own color, so you always see who said what. Use headphones when you caption both.
25 languages. Nothing to pick.
Jimaky hears which language is spoken. When the speaker switches, the captions switch too.
Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Italian Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Ukrainian
Read it your way.
Three display modes: Smooth, 2 lines and Full text.
Three sizes, Small to Large. And three looks: a dark box, a light box, or white text with an outline and no box at all.
Hear it. Read it in your language.
Pick a language and Jimaky translates as people speak. On your Mac, offline, macOS 26 or later.
Tuck it away.
Need to see the whole screen? Click the minimize button (–) on the caption box, and it becomes a small teal button. It keeps pulsing, and captions keep running.
Click it, and the box comes back with everything you missed.
Missed a word? Copy it.
Scroll back to any line, select it, and copy it. Paste a new word into your notes or a dictionary.
Or copy all captions with one click.
Lives in your menu bar.
No Dock icon, no big window. Start captions, hide them, open Settings, quit. That's the whole menu.
The caption box floats over every app, even full-screen video. Its buttons fade away while captions run.
Questions
How is it different from the captions built into macOS?
Jimaky is made for listening in other languages. It knows 25 languages and follows the speaker when they switch. You choose how the captions move and look, you can scroll back and copy, and you can caption your Mac and your microphone at the same time, with your own words in their own color.
How fast and accurate is it?
Captions appear while people speak, with a short delay. Clear speech works best. Strong accents, very fast talk, loud music, or several people talking at once can cause mistakes.
Does it translate?
Yes. On macOS 26 or later, turn on Translate in the caption popup and choose your target language. Translation runs on your Mac after you download the language packs. Choose live translation or finished sentences. Translation supports 10 source languages; caption recognition supports 25.
Does it work with Japanese, Chinese or Korean?
Jimaky can translate supported speech into Japanese, Chinese and Korean on macOS 26 or later. It does not recognize speech spoken in those languages; speech recognition supports the 25 European languages listed above.
Which apps does it work with?
Any app that plays sound: video players, browsers, call apps, podcasts. Jimaky listens to the sound, not to the app, so nothing needs to be set up.
Is anything saved or sent?
No. Audio and captions stay on your Mac and are cleared when you stop. Copy what you want to keep before you stop.
Do I need the internet?
Internet is needed to download the speech model (about 500 MB) and any translation language packs you choose. Captions and translation then work offline.
What will it cost?
Try every feature free for 7 days. Then unlock it once for €7.99. No subscription.
Requirements
Small and quiet. It asks only for audio, never your screen.
- Mac
- Apple silicon (M1 or later)
- macOS
- 14.2 Sonoma or later
- Storage
- About 500 MB for the speech model
- Translation
- macOS 26 or later; downloaded language packs
- Internet
- For speech model and translation pack downloads
- Account
- None
Privacy
Jimaky doesn't collect any data. There is no account, no analytics, and no tracking.
Your Mac's sound and, if you choose, your microphone are turned into text on your Mac. Audio and captions are never sent anywhere and are not saved to disk. Captions are cleared when you stop.
Jimaky needs the internet to download its speech model (about 500 MB) and optional Apple translation language packs. Speech recognition and translation run on your Mac; your audio and captions are not uploaded for processing.
Help
- No captions from your Mac?
- Allow Jimaky under System Audio Recording in System Settings, Privacy & Security. Jimaky shows a button that opens it.
- Lines appear twice in Both mode?
- Use headphones, so the microphone doesn't hear your speakers.
- Using AirPods in Both mode?
- They work. If sound quality drops while their microphone is on, choose your Mac's microphone in System Settings, Sound.
- Wrong microphone?
- Jimaky uses the input chosen in System Settings, Sound.
- A device was unplugged?
- Stop captions and start them again.