4 appsmade on a Mac
Colour, voice and sound tools that are fast, private and built for Apple silicon. Made by one small studio. Pay once, keep them.
Why ActNow
01 // native
Real macOS windows and controls, written in Go on MyGo, with no web view and no Electron. Small downloads, little memory, instant launch.
02 // private
No accounts inside the apps, no analytics, no crash reports. Pik, Dicta and AudioSmith work entirely on your Mac; Auralink talks only to the services you pick, with your keys.
03 // apple silicon
Speech and language models run on your Mac's GPU with MLX, so voice, transcription and AI work offline once their models are downloaded.
04 // pay once
Each app has one price, and the bundle has all of them. AudioSmith is free and open source.
05 // one family
The same design, the same shortcuts style and the same quiet settings in every app. Signed, notarized, and they update themselves.
06 // small studio
ActNow is a small independent studio. No investors to please; the people who buy the apps keep them going.
Apps
Four apps, each doing one job well. Use one, or all of them together.
Pik
Pik picks any colour on any screen and keeps it in Color History and your palettes. It copies colours in 28 code formats, checks contrast, keeps palettes in a dock at the screen's edge and sends colours straight to your design and code apps.
Explore Pik0.1 previewmacOS 15+$9
Auralink
Press a shortcut in any app, speak, and Auralink types the text where your cursor is, cleaned up by a language model and adjusted to the app you are in. It also translates and rewrites, by voice or on the text you select, with the speech and language services you choose.
Explore Auralink0.1.0 betamacOS 15+$19
Dicta
Dicta transcribes your meetings, recordings, files and links, tells speakers apart and writes summaries, all on your Mac with local models. No bot joins your call, and nothing is uploaded.
Explore DictaIn developmentmacOS 15+$29
AudioSmith
AudioSmith turns text into speech, clones and designs voices, gives a story a cast, reads a book into an M4B, dubs a video into another language and transcribes who said what. Every model runs on your Mac's GPU, offline once downloaded.
Explore AudioSmith0.4 betamacOS 15+Free
Fund pool //
Every purchase goes into one pool, and the pool is split the same way every time. This is the split, and how much it holds today.
Received so far
$0.00
0 supporters · Updated
The pool is empty for now. The first purchase starts it.
Supports MyGo, the open-source Go framework for native macOS interfaces that every ActNow app is built on. MyGo on GitHub ↗
10%
$0.00
Keeps Pik, Auralink, Dicta and AudioSmith maintained and updated, and pays for building the apps that come next.
50%
$0.00
Running the studio: signing, hosting, payment fees and the rest. The exact use is still being decided.
40%
$0.00
Open books //
The total is the sum of every paid order, after refunds, and updates on its own. The split applies to every order. We will publish what each share was spent on.
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Pik, Auralink and Dicta (when it ships) for one price. AudioSmith is free for everyone.
