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For clinicians

Talk the note into the chart.

Hold right ⌘ and dictate a progress note or referral letter into your EHR’s web form or Word. Speech is recognized on your Mac.

2,000 words freeNo accountmacOS 14 or later

Session note

Weekly session

Client reports sleep improved to about six hours and uses the breathing exercise most nights.

Types straight into

Where typing gets in the way.

01

Notes spill into the evening

Typing narrative notes after a full day of appointments is slow.

02

Every cloud tool is another vendor

Most dictation apps upload audio, which means another company to assess and another agreement to sign.

03

Dragon left the Mac

The desktop edition many clinicians used ended in 2018.

Say it messy.
Get it clean.

Hold right ⌘, talk the way you think, let go. Murmur drops the fillers, applies your corrections and types the result at your cursor.

You say

“client reports um sleep improved to about six hours, uses the breathing exercise most nights”

Murmur types in Notes

Client reports sleep improved to about six hours and uses the breathing exercise most nights.

You say

“new paragraph, plan uh continue weekly sessions, review sleep diary next visit”

Murmur types in Notes

Plan: continue weekly sessions; review sleep diary next visit.

Illustrations of AI polish (macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence), not recorded transcripts. Results vary with your voice and microphone.

Built for how clinicians work.

Clean notes as you talk

Fillers out, punctuation in. Say “new paragraph” for a break.

client reports um sleep improved uh to about six hoursClient reports sleep improved to about six hours.

Your terms, added once

Medications, abbreviations and colleagues go in the Dictionary.

sertralinePHQ-9CBT

Formal letters, Verbatim notes

Letters start in Formal. Verbatim skips AI rewriting entirely.

WordFormalMailFormalNotesVerbatim

Standard paragraphs on cue

Save them as Snippets and say their name.

“referral thanks”Thank you for this referral.

Works with Wi-Fi off

Test it in Airplane Mode with an invented note first.

Airplane ModeStill dictating

Speech is recognized on the Mac.

Dictation audio is transcribed on your Mac and discarded, and Murmur doesn’t upload your audio or text. Murmur isn’t certified against HIPAA or any other standard, and we don’t sign BAAs, so ask your privacy or compliance officer whether it fits your obligations. History keeps your last 500 dictations on the Mac: clear it, and use FileVault and a screen lock.

  • Speech recognized on your Mac
  • Works in Airplane Mode
  • No account to try

How it compares.

Mac dictation options for clinicians, October 2026
MurmurWispr Flow
Price per clinician$19 once$15/month
Speech processedOn your MacWispr’s cloud
Works offline✓–
BAA available–✓
Medical speech model–Not stated

Details from each maker’s site, October 2026. If you need a signed BAA from every vendor, Wispr Flow offers one.

Where it falls short.

Better you hear it here than after you buy.

Managed hospital Macs

IT may block the permissions Murmur needs, and decides what you can install.

Not an ambient scribe

For visits recorded and notes drafted for you, look at clinical scribe products made and contracted for that.

No medical speech model

A general model misses more drug names and eponyms; the Dictionary helps, but it isn’t a medical lexicon.

No certification or BAA

There’s no admin console for a practice either.

Questions

Is Murmur HIPAA compliant?

We don’t claim that. Compliance belongs to a practice’s whole workflow, not to one app, and we don’t certify Murmur against any standard or sign Business Associate Agreements. What we can state is what the app does: speech is transcribed on the Mac, and Murmur doesn’t upload your audio or text. Ask your privacy or compliance officer whether that fits your obligations.

Does Murmur work in Epic or other EHRs?

Murmur types into whatever text field has the cursor, so web-based EHRs in Safari or Chrome generally work like any other web form. We haven’t tested Epic, or any EHR running through Citrix or a remote desktop, so try those with the free words before you rely on it.

Does it know drug names and medical terms?

Not out of the box. Murmur uses general speech models, not a medical one. Add the drug names, abbreviations and colleagues’ names you use to the Dictionary, and use Replacements for terms that keep coming out wrong. Always read the note before you sign it.

Can Murmur write up a whole visit or therapy session?

It isn’t an ambient scribe. Murmur is built for you dictating, and for notes on calls you choose to record. It can record an in-person conversation, but don’t use that with patients unless your organization approves it and the patient consents.

Is there Dragon Medical for Mac?

Nuance ended Dragon Professional for Mac in 2018. Dragon Medical One is a separate, cloud-based product sold to organizations; check with Nuance or your IT team for its Mac support.

What does Murmur keep on my Mac?

History keeps your last 500 dictations; delete entries or clear it in History. If you use meeting notes, transcripts stay until you delete them, and recordings are deleted after 7 days by default. Use FileVault and a screen lock, and follow your organization’s rules for devices holding patient information.

Hold right ⌘.
Say the note.

2,000 words free, no account: try an invented note in the EHR you actually use.

2,000 words free$19 once, 3 Macs7-day refund

Murmur for other work

Guides for clinicians

Updated by Telman Gadimov, Maker of Murmur. This page describes what Murmur does, checked against the app’s source and our privacy policy. It is not compliance advice. Whether you may use any tool with patient information is for you, your organization and your regulator to decide.

Sources: Nuance: Dragon Professional for Mac end of life · Wispr Flow: privacy and security · Wispr Flow pricing · Apple: Dictate messages and documents on Mac · Murmur privacy policy