Your computer should be yours.
We’re building the kind of software we want on our own Macs.
Make it work well.
A well-made tool earns your trust. It does what you expect, and you get on with your day.
So we care how fast your words appear, how much battery the app uses, and whether your work survives when something goes wrong. Those details matter more than new things you did not ask for.
Own your software. Own your intelligence.
We miss buying a useful tool and knowing it was ours to keep. Orca One is bought once and kept. No monthly bill for the same tool.
The intelligence on your Mac should be yours too. Pick your models. Work offline. You own the hardware, so you should control what runs on it.
Privacy is a right.
You should never have to explain why you want to keep something private. A half-formed thought. A client call. It is yours, and sharing it is your decision.
So Orca One turns speech into text on your Mac and keeps your recordings and transcripts there. Privacy goes into the design first, not the settings page later.
These principles decide what we build and what we leave out. When a feature gets in their way, it gets rethought.
Orca One