The current app has no Windows version.And that’s on purpose.

We get asked about a Windows version a lot. Often enough that it deserves a straight answer instead of a “someday” on a roadmap. So here it is, from a small team that cares a little too much about the details.

The current Openbroca app does exactly one thing: you talk, and finished writing appears where your cursor already is. Making that feel effortless — not merely functional — is the whole pursuit. That kind of polish comes from living deep inside a single platform, not from planting a flag on every OS we can reach.

Because the current Openbroca app doesn’t sit on top of the Mac. It reaches into it. It hangs off the notch, slips text into the field you’re typing in through Accessibility, reads your screen with Screen Context, borrows the system’s frosted glass, and answers the instant you press ⌥ Space. Not one of those has a Windows part we could simply copy across. A real Windows app wouldn’t be a port — it would be a rebuild of every piece from nothing, and either it matches the Mac or it isn’t worth shipping.

You already know how the alternative feels. The app that clearly grew up somewhere else — menus in odd places, shortcuts fighting your muscle memory, a window that moves through the system like a guest who can’t find the light switch. We’ve used those apps too. We’re not going to hand you one with our name on it.

And we’re small on purpose. Splitting a small team across two operating systems wouldn’t produce the current product twice as fast; it would produce two versions that each feel half-finished. We’d rather do one thing so well you forget it’s software at all.

So — the native app on Windows? Not today. And we’re not going to dangle a fake sign-up box to soften it. But an operating system isn’t a life sentence. If you ever find yourself on a Mac — a new job, a new laptop, a weak moment near an Apple Store — you’ll already know the very first thing to download.

Looking for the earlier cross-platform experiment? Openbroca Origin is a separate, MIT-licensed Electron project for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It is still maintained, but it does not share code with the current native Swift app.