TL;DR: Hands-free voice prompting is working with AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT) through the complete voice loop: say "type" plus your prompt, send it by voice, and switch to the next app, with zero key touches. Typing is the bottleneck in AI-heavy work, and Infina removes it: speak thousands of words of prompts a day, keep multiple agents busy, and ship faster. Infina is the Mac app built around this loop, on-device by default, for $99 once with a 7-day refund. One purchase, and it pays for itself in reclaimed hours.
Infina is our product and we named the category, so we are biased. But the distinction underneath is real and easy to verify: every mainstream dictation tool still needs your hands twice per prompt.
What hands-free voice prompting actually means
Watch someone use a normal dictation app with an AI tool and count the keyboard touches per prompt:
- Hand moves to the keyboard to hold the hotkey.
- They speak. Text appears.
- Hand stays to press Enter and send it.
- Hand goes to the trackpad or Cmd-Tab to switch windows for the next task.
The speaking part went hands-free; the loop around it didn't. Hands-free voice prompting closes all four:
- Trigger by voice: the trigger word "type" replaces the hotkey.
- Dictate: say "type" plus your words, in one breath, and Infina types them.
- Send by voice: a spoken command presses Enter for you.
- Switch apps by voice: "open Terminal" replaces Cmd-Tab.
The test is simple: can you run a full prompt, send, next-app cycle from three feet away, hands around a coffee mug? If any step needs a key, it's push-to-talk dictation wearing a costume.
How it differs from push-to-talk dictation
Push-to-talk is what Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and essentially every mainstream dictation app do: hold a hotkey, speak, release, and the tool's job ends the moment text lands. Some are very good at that slice, but they are hotkey-triggered and they stop at typing text.
| Push-to-talk dictation | Hands-free voice prompting | |
|---|---|---|
| Trigger | Hold a hotkey on the keyboard | Say "type" plus your words |
| Sending | You press Enter | Say "send" and Enter is pressed for you |
| App switching | Cmd-Tab or trackpad | "Open [app]" by voice |
| Hands on keyboard | Every single dictation | Zero |
| Works across the room | No, you're at the keys | Yes, a few feet from the Mac |
To be clear about the neighbors: this isn't the same as classic voice control software either. Accessibility-grade voice control (like Talon) can drive a whole computer by voice, a deep and different discipline. If driving the whole Mac by voice is what you're after, we compare Apple's built-in Voice Control with Infina's voice commands in how to control your Mac with your voice.
Hands-free voice prompting is narrower and lighter: it optimizes one loop, the prompt cycle, for people who use AI tools all day. See the head-to-heads with Wispr Flow and Superwhisper for how the push-to-talk tools compare in full.
Who it's for
Three groups get a disproportionate payoff:
- People running AI coding agents. If you have Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor sessions open all day, your work is a stream of prompts across multiple windows. Hands-free turns "review here, instruct there" into one continuous motion, which is how one person keeps several agents shipping at once. The deep-dives are in voice typing for Claude Code and voice typing for Cursor. The broader workflow, describing changes to a coding agent by speaking, is vibe coding by voice.
- People managing RSI or wrist pain. Push-to-talk still demands hundreds of hotkey holds and Enter presses a day. Hands-free removes the residual keystrokes, not just the typing.
- People who think while pacing. Some brains produce better prompts standing at a whiteboard or walking a slow circle than hunched at a desk. If that's you, being tethered to a hotkey was the only thing stopping you.
If you dictate a few emails a week, push-to-talk (or free macOS dictation) is genuinely all you need. This category earns its keep at high prompt volume, where the time saved compounds daily.
How Infina implements it
Infina is a Mac app whose base job is on-device dictation; hands-free is the layer on top. The mechanics:
- Double-tap Cmd (⌘) to toggle hands-free mode on. It's off by default. Listening runs entirely on-device; nothing is recorded and nothing is sent anywhere while it waits.
- Speak a sentence that starts with "type": "type refactor the login flow but keep the animations". Infina types it straight into the focused app. No hotkey; "type" itself is the trigger. Transcription runs on your Mac by default (on the Apple Neural Engine), so the whole loop works offline. See on-device dictation for Mac.
- Say "send": Infina presses Enter.
- Say "open Terminal" (or "open Cursor", "open Notes", any app) and repeat.
It's designed to work from two to three feet away, normal leaning-back-in-your-chair distance. Prefer a keyboard escape hatch? Double-tapping Ctrl wakes it for a single command while hands-free is on, and hold-Option push-to-talk always works regardless.
Pricing is deliberately not a subscription: $99 one-time (at the time of writing), 7-day no-questions refund, with an optional $10/month cloud add-on for polished output and more languages. Details on pricing.
For anyone speaking thousands of words of prompts a day, one $99 purchase against a lifetime of saved keystrokes is not a hard sum.
Honest limits
The fine print, up front:
- It's labeled experimental. Hands-free is our newest surface. It ships off by default, and push-to-talk is the mature fallback when the trigger word mishears.
- English only in the base product. The cloud add-on brings more languages, but hands-free is not yet a polyglot experience.
- Mac only, Apple Silicon required for the on-device models. No Windows, no mobile.
- A quiet-ish room helps. Picking up your voice at a distance is physics: a blasting fan or open-plan chatter degrades it. It doesn't need silence, but it's happiest in a normal home office.
- No free trial. There's a 7-day money-back guarantee instead: if hands-free doesn't stick in your room with your accent, the refund is one email.
None of these change the core claim: for the prompt loop itself, nothing else on the Mac runs it end to end by voice.
FAQ
What is hands-free voice prompting in one sentence? Prompting AI tools through a fully voice-driven loop (say "type" plus your prompt, send, and switch apps) with zero keyboard touches.
How is it different from dictation apps like Wispr Flow or Superwhisper? Those are push-to-talk: a hotkey triggers them, and their job ends when text appears, so sending and window-switching stay on your hands. Hands-free voice prompting covers the whole cycle by voice.
Is my Mac recording everything while hands-free mode is listening? No. Infina's hands-free listening runs on-device inside the app; nothing is recorded or sent anywhere while it waits for you to speak. By default, transcription is also on-device and no audio or transcripts are stored.
Does it work with Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex? Yes. Infina types into whatever app is focused, at the OS level, so it works with any terminal, editor, or chat window. No per-app extension needed.
What do I need to run it? A Mac with Apple Silicon (M-series). The base product is English-only; the optional $10/month cloud add-on adds more languages and polished output.
How much does Infina cost? $99 one-time at the time of writing, including every 1.x update, with a 7-day no-questions-asked money-back guarantee. No subscription and no free trial for the core product.
The bottom line
Dictation apps solved speaking-instead-of-typing years ago. What they never solved is the loop around it (trigger, send, switch), which still runs through your hands.
If you prompt AI tools occasionally, that residue doesn't matter and free dictation is fine. If prompting is your workday, hands-free voice prompting is a different way of working: you review with your eyes, direct with your voice, keep multiple agents busy, and do more in less time.
Infina is the tool built for exactly that loop, at $99 once. If it doesn't earn its place in a week, the refund takes one email.