Built out of frustration.

Our mission

Voice typing should be fast, light and fair. Murmint turns what you say into clean, formatted text in any Windows app, using the AI services you already have, without a subscription and without eating your computer.

The story

It started with frustration. I talk faster than I type, so I tried the popular dictation apps, and every one of them left me angry. They charged high monthly prices for a small number of words, buried the one thing I wanted under features I never asked for, and used a ridiculous amount of my computer's resources just to sit in the background.

At the same time I was building my other project, AuraLink, with Claude helping me through front-end and UI problems. I kept hitting my usage limits, and every time I did, I was stuck typing long explanations by hand again.

The epiphany

Somewhere in the middle of that, it clicked. Everything these apps were charging me for was already within reach. The speech models and the language models were right there, on services I could use with my own keys, for fractions of a cent. What was missing was not more features. It was a small, fast tool that got out of the way: hold a key, talk, and get clean text where my cursor already was.

So I decided to stop paying for bloat and build it myself, the way I wanted it to work.

Building it

Murmint took five to six months of work. Claude and I split it roughly 50/50: I drove the idea, the design and the decisions, and Claude worked alongside me on the code, including the big migration that moved the heart of the app into Rust. That move is why Murmint stays so small and quick: one native engine does the work, and the window you see is only the interface.

It was not a straight road. After all that time building, the GitHub account I had been working on was accidentally deleted, so the whole project had to be uploaded again to a new one. It survived, and so did the point of it.

And honestly, it has also been a fun project. It is the tool I wanted to exist, built because nobody else had built it quite right.

What that means for you

• No subscription. The app is free; you pay your AI provider directly, or nothing with a local model.
• Light. One small Rust engine does the work.
• Yours. Your keys, history and vocabulary stay on your PC, and the code is open under the GPL.