How can we help?
Help with LocalFlow and LocalFlow Lite.
Write to us
Email [email protected]. We usually answer within two days.
Quick answers
How do I dictate?
Hold the hot key (Fn by default; Option + Space also works), speak, let go. Your words are copied. Press Command + V where you want them. You can pick another key from the menu bar icon.
I cannot see the menu bar icon.
A full menu bar, or the notch, can hide it. Open LocalFlow Lite again from Applications and its window comes back, where you can also keep it in the Dock.
It says the microphone is blocked.
Turn it on in System Settings, Privacy & Security, Microphone.
The first launch is slow.
It downloads the speech model once, about 450 MB. After that it works with no internet.
Holding Fn opens the emoji picker or dictation.
In System Settings, Keyboard, set “Press 🌐 key to” to Do Nothing. Or use Option + Space, which needs no setting.
What does it need?
A Mac with Apple silicon, macOS 26 or later. English.
How to uninstall
LocalFlow Lite
- Open the menu bar icon and choose Uninstall LocalFlow Lite…. It removes its speech model and settings, then shows the app in Finder.
- Drag LocalFlow Lite to the Trash yourself. (Apps from the Mac App Store cannot delete themselves.)
- Turn off its Microphone and Input Monitoring entries in System Settings → Privacy & Security, if you like.
If the full version is also installed, Lite offers once to move it to the Trash for you. Choose Keep to keep both.
The version from this website
Newer versions have Uninstall LocalFlow… in the same menu. It asks you to confirm, then removes the speech model, your saved words and corrections, settings, the start-at-login entry and its Microphone and Accessibility entries, and moves the app to the Trash (you can restore it until you empty the Trash).
It keeps your license on this Mac unless you tick Also remove my license from this Mac, which also frees that Mac for another install (this needs internet; offline it still clears the copy on this Mac).
By hand, either version
Quit LocalFlow from the menu bar icon and drag it from Applications to the Trash. To remove what it saved, delete ~/Library/Application Support/FluidAudio (the speech model, about 450 MB) and, for the website version, ~/Library/Application Support/LocalFlow. LocalFlow Lite keeps its data in ~/Library/Containers/com.ivanmeouch.localflow.lite; delete that folder after the app is in the Trash.