Download

One app. It lives in the menu bar.

Homebrew

The easiest route, and brew upgrade keeps it current.

brew install --cask tjameswilliams/tap/hark

This also puts hark-mcp on your PATH for the AI tool integrations.

Direct download

Download .dmg

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later on Apple Silicon. Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

First launch

  • Open Hark. It appears in the menu bar as the hawk, with no Dock icon.
  • Grant Microphone and Accessibility when asked. Hark opens the right pane in System Settings for each.
  • Hold right ⌘, say something, let go.

The first dictation downloads the speech model, about 600 MB, to your Library folder. After that Hark works offline.

Build it yourself

The source is MIT or Apache-2.0. With Rust and Xcode installed: 

git clone https://github.com/tjameswilliams/hark
cd hark
scripts/build-app.sh
open build/Hark.app