MicType
根 李 Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
MicType is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by 根 李. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated October 1, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 3 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 1
- 2026 · v1.3.0
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About MicType
MicType turns your own AI into a keyboard. It runs on your account, not ours: you need an OpenAI API key and a connection. Without those, MicType cannot transcribe. Speak, and it types Tap the mic and talk — in any app. Your words are recognized as you speak, and clean, punctuated, ready-to-send text lands at the cursor. Hold the mic instead and say what you want done — polish, translate, rewrite, draft a reply, answer a question — and the result is typed right where you are. Your AI, your key, no middleman Connect OpenAI with your own API key. Your audio and your text go straight from your phone to OpenAI. No account, no sign-in, and no MicType server — we never receive, relay or store any of it. Before anything is sent, a plain-language disclosure tells you exactly what leaves your phone; remove your key and nothing is sent. Accurate first Every sentence is recognized twice — live while you speak, and once more from the whole recording when you stop — and the more accurate result is used. Text usually lands two to four seconds after you stop. Polish that sounds like you Fillers and stutters go, misheard words get fixed, numbers are written the way you write them, and a long rambling note becomes clear points. Facts, questions and negations are checked before the text is inserted — if a rewrite drifts, you get your own words instead. Teach it your words Add names, products and jargon to your vocabulary and they are spelled right from the start, in the recognizer itself. MicType also notices the words it keeps getting wrong and suggests them. Buy once, no subscription Free for 30 days, then a single one-time purchase — no monthly, no yearly. Separately, you pay your own provider for the tokens you use. Optimized for Chinese and mixed Chinese-English, and works in 20+ languages including Arabic. For people who want AI-assisted typing without handing their data to one more company.
What’s new
Version 1.3.0 · Updated October 1, 2026
Please read first: MicType now works with OpenAI only. If you were connected to Alibaba Cloud, open MicType → Settings → OpenAI and paste an OpenAI key. · More accurate. Every sentence is now recognized twice — live while you speak, and once more from the whole recording when you stop — and the more accurate result is used. Polish runs on a more careful model and is checked for changed numbers, names, negations and questions before anything is inserted; if a rewrite drifts, you get your own words. · A new look. Setup is one page: microphone, keyboard, OpenAI — in any order. The app has four tabs (Home, History, Vocabulary, Settings), and the keyboard is rebuilt around one big mic button, a full-width send bar, and a single status line. · More languages. 23 spoken languages, picked up from what you actually say — including Arabic. Fixed: dictation in Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi and other scripts was wrongly rejected as "not recognized". · Vocabulary that learns the hard words. MicType notices the words the recognizer keeps getting wrong and suggests them; everyday words are left alone. · On iPhones set to English, system buttons and permission prompts now appear in English. · Recordings can run up to 5 minutes, and the mic stays ready for 60 minutes by default. Good to know: recognizing each sentence twice uses a little more of your OpenAI credit (about a quarter more for recognition). Your audio and text still go straight from your phone to OpenAI with your own key. MicType has no servers.
App privacy
The developer, 根 李, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- User Content: Audio Data, Other User Content
Used for: App Functionality
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