Installation

Tiune runs on macOS and Windows. It's the same app on both — same floating bar, same dictation into any application, with the text landing where your cursor is. Here's everything you need to get it installed and open for the first time.

What you need

On a Mac

Apple silicon, running macOS 12 (Monterey) or later
About 100 MB of free disk space to install
A microphone (your Mac's built-in one works fine)

On a PC

Windows 10 or later, 64-bit
About 100 MB of free disk space to install
A microphone

Optional engines are downloaded later and are the only large files involved: Tiune Turbo adds about 380 MB, and Tiune Multilingual about 550 MB. Neither is needed to start dictating — see Choosing Models.

You'll need to sign in with a Google or Apple account the first time you open Tiune — that's what lets your vocabulary and corrections follow you to every computer you use. It's a one-time step, not an always-online requirement: dictation itself is free and unlimited, and once you're signed in, everyday dictation works completely offline.

Download and install

Downloads live on the releases page, and tiune.app links straight to the right one for your machine.

macOS — the download is Tiune-macOS.dmg.

Open the .dmg. You'll see a small window with the Tiune icon and a shortcut to your Applications folder.
Drag the Tiune icon onto the Applications shortcut.
Open your Applications folder and double-click Tiune to launch it.

Windows — the download is Tiune-Windows.exe.

Run the installer and follow the prompts.
If your machine doesn't already have the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime, the installer fetches and installs it for you. Nothing to find or download yourself.
Launch Tiune from the Start menu.

That's it on either platform — there's no separate setup wizard outside of the app itself.

The first time you open Tiune

On a Mac, the very first time you open any app downloaded from outside the App Store, macOS shows a quick confirmation asking if you're sure you want to open it. This is normal — it's macOS double-checking on your behalf, not a sign anything is wrong. Tiune is notarized by Apple, so this is a single, simple confirmation: click Open, and you won't see it again for future launches.

On Windows, SmartScreen may show a similar one-time notice for a newly published installer. Choose More info → Run anyway to continue.

You're ready to dictate immediately

Tiune comes with its default speech-recognition engine — Tiune Instant — built in. Once you've signed in during setup, there's nothing to download before your first dictation. Heavier or multilingual engines are available later if you want them (see Choosing Models), but nothing about getting started depends on them.

The next steps are:

Permissions — what Tiune asks permission for, and why.
First Dictation — a walkthrough of the guided setup and your very first capture.
Plans — what's free, and what the paid plans add.

Keeping Tiune up to date

Tiune checks for updates quietly in the background and offers them to you; nothing installs without you choosing it, and nothing ever interrupts you mid-sentence.

You can also check whenever you like from Check for updates in the profile menu. It answers as soon as the release feed does and tells you what it actually found — that you're up to date, that a new version is downloading, or that the check itself failed.

When there is an update, a card shows the version, what's in it, and a progress bar while it downloads, with Restart & install once it's ready. Dismissing that card never cancels anything: the download carries on, and the status line at the bottom of the sidebar keeps tracking it, turning into the restart button when it's done. Click it any time to bring the card back.

Downloads are written to disk as they arrive, so quitting Tiune doesn't throw the transfer away, and an interrupted one resumes where it stopped rather than starting over.

One exception worth knowing: builds from before 23 July 2026 can't auto-update, because the update signing key was rotated and those builds are compiled against the old one. If you're on one of them, download a fresh copy from tiune.app — your vocabulary, history, and settings carry over.

Removing Tiune

On a Mac, drag Tiune.app from your Applications folder to the Trash, like any other Mac app. On Windows, uninstall it from Settings → Apps as usual.

One thing worth knowing on either platform: this only removes the app itself. Your vocabulary, past captures, and settings are stored in a separate folder and aren't deleted automatically. If you want a completely fresh start (or you're troubleshooting something odd), see Troubleshooting for where that folder lives.