Features
Windows and Mac
What Infina does on Windows and on Mac, side by side.
Most of what Infina does works the same on Mac and Windows; a few abilities are Mac-only today.
13 of the 20 abilities below work on Windows today; the rest are Mac-only. The table shows exactly which, and each Mac-only row says why.
Side by side
Everything Infina does, on both computers. Where Windows can't do something, the reason is on the row.
| What you can say | Mac | Windows |
|---|---|---|
| Typing with your voice | ||
| Dictate into any appHold the key and talk | Yes | Yes |
| Hands-free — no key at allJust start talkingWorks on Windows, but it runs the speech model on your own laptop, so it needs at least 4 processor cores and 8 GB of memory. Infina checks and tells you if yours is below that. | Yes | Some of it |
| Works with no internetOn Windows this needs a laptop with at least 4 processor cores and 8 GB of memory, since the speech model runs on the machine itself. Below that, voice typing goes through the Cloud add-on instead. | Yes | Some of it |
| Controlling your computer | ||
| Volume, mute and unmute“Volume up” | Yes | Yes |
| Play, pause, next and previous track“Next song” | Yes | Yes |
| Lock, sleep and show the desktop“Lock my computer” | Yes | Yes |
| Screenshots“Take a screenshot” | Yes | Yes |
| Dark mode and light mode“Turn on dark mode” | Yes | Yes |
| Empty the bin“Empty the trash” | Yes | Yes |
| Move, resize and close windows“Close this window” | Yes | Yes |
| Opening things | ||
| Open an app“Open Spotify” | Yes | Yes |
| Open a website“Open GitHub” | Yes | Yes |
| Open Apple's own appsSafari, Messages, FaceTime, RemindersThese are Apple's own apps, so they exist only on a Mac. | Yes | No |
| Working with what's on screen | ||
| Press keys for you“Send it”Works on Windows when you're hands-free, but not yet while holding the key. | Yes | Some of it |
| Rewrite the text you've selected“Make this shorter”Runs on an on-device model that is Apple-Silicon only today. | Yes | No |
| Read what's on your screen“What does this say?”Built on macOS Accessibility, which has no wired-up Windows equivalent yet. | Yes | No |
| Control a page inside your browser“Scroll down”, “Click the sign-in button”Built on macOS Accessibility, which has no wired-up Windows equivalent yet. | Yes | No |
| Scroll and jump around a document“Page down”, “Select all”Built on macOS Accessibility, which has no wired-up Windows equivalent yet. | Yes | No |
| Understanding you | ||
| Say it however you like“Could you knock the volume down a bit?”On Windows, Infina matches what you say against a set list of commands, so it helps to use the wording on this page. On a Mac it works out what you meant. | Yes | No |
| Two things in one breath“Open Spotify and turn the volume down”Runs on an on-device model that is Apple-Silicon only today. | Yes | No |
What is the same on both
- Voice typing. Hold your key and talk, in any app, on any supported laptop.
- Every system control. All of them, at full parity.
- Opening apps and websites. Say the name.
- Working offline. Neither one needs the internet to type.
Email, chat and issue trackers — Gmail, Slack, Linear, Calendar — are not driven by voice on either computer.