Features
Hands-free mode
Wake Infina with your voice and dictate without a key.
Hands-free mode lets you use Infina without touching your keyboard. Start your sentence with “type” and your words are typed into whatever text field you're in — say “send it” and it submits. Say “Jupiter” for everything else, like opening apps. It's available on Mac. This page explains exactly how your audio is handled at every step, so you always know what stays on your device and what doesn't.
The short version
While Infina is asleep, a small listener runs entirely on your device and only listens for your wake words. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. The moment you wake it, Infina captures just that one spoken request and turns it into text right on your Mac, then goes right back to sleep.
Waking Infina
While Infina is asleep, say one of these out loud to wake it:
- “Type — start your sentence with it and your words are typed where your cursor is”
- “Jupiter — open apps and everything else”
Start your sentence with type — no pause after the word — and Infina types what you say into any text field. Once it's typed, say send it, send, or enter and it submits. For anything else — opening ChatGPT, switching apps, pressing keys — say Jupiter and give it the request.
While asleep
When you're not actively using Infina, it sits in a sleeping state. A small model runs entirely on your device and listens only for your wake words. In this state:
- The listener is not recording and not sending anything anywhere.
- Audio is processed locally and immediately discarded — only the wake words can wake it up.
- Until you say a wake word, no audio ever leaves your computer.
When you wake it
As soon as a wake word fires, Infina captures just that one spoken request — the command or sentence you say next — and turns it into text right on your Mac. For commands, the text is then turned into an action.
- Only your intended request is captured — never continuous or background audio.
- Infina detects when you've finished speaking and stops capturing — it doesn't keep an open microphone.
- Transcription runs on your Mac. With the optional Infina Cloud add-on, your request travels over an encrypted connection to our cloud instead.
The wake and sleep cycle
Once your request is handled — or after a short period of silence — Infina returns to its sleeping, on-device-only state. The local listener takes back over, and nothing leaves your computer again until your next wake word.
A Stay awake setting controls how long Infina keeps listening after handling a request before it drifts back to sleep. If you don't say anything within that window, it returns to the on-device-only state automatically.
Your data and Privacy mode
By default, Privacy mode is on and nothing is kept: no dictation or voice-action text is saved. Transcription also runs on your Mac by default, so your audio doesn't leave your device — with the optional Infina Cloud add-on, your request travels encrypted to our cloud providers instead. If you'd like a searchable history of what you've dictated, turn Privacy mode off in Settings → Data & privacy. Your stats, snippets, and dictionary are always kept either way.
You'll find Privacy mode in Settings → Data & privacy, and you can flip it on or off whenever you want. The trade-off: you won't have a searchable history of what you dictated.