Hold a shortcut, speak, and BetterWispr types clean text into any Mac app. Local speech models, a style for each app, meeting notes and insights. Free and open source, with no account required.
Superwhisper — AI Voice to Text for macOS, Windows & iOS
AI powered voice to text for macOS, Windows, and iOS. Dictate in any app with offline and cloud speech recognition, 100+ languages, and custom AI modes.
VoiceInk - Advanced AI Voice Recognition for Mac
Transform Your Voice Into Text Instantly with Offline AI. Built for Mac, Optimized for Privacy. One-Time Purchase, No Subscriptions.
TypeWhisper for macOS, Windows, and iOS - Private Speech-to-Text
TypeWhisper connects private speech-to-text with system-wide dictation, files, workflows, and automation. macOS 1.6 and Windows 1.0.8 are stable; the public iOS 1.0 release is still being prepared for the App Store.
turantekin/Parrot
Meeting recorder for your Mac with a live AI copilot. On-device transcription, answers from your own docs mid-call. Local-first and open source.
Scribe — Meeting notes that never leave your Mac
Scribe records, transcribes and summarises your meetings on your Mac. Free and open source.
Handy
Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer
Launching a free, open-source, on-device transcription app
TL;DR – Please try Moonshine Note Taker on your Mac! For years I’ve been telling people that AI wants to be local, that on-device models aren’t just a poor man’s alternative…
msllrs/relay
A macOS menu bar app that lets you build rich LLM prompts by combining files, clipboard captures, and voice notes.
Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025
We introduce two multilingual, multimodal foundation language models that power Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices and…
ICML WhisperKit: On-device Real-time ASR with Billion-Scale Transformers
Real-time Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a fundamental building block for many commercial applications of ML, including live captioning, dictation, meeting transcriptions, and medical scribes. Accuracy and latency are the most important factors when companies select a system to deploy. We present WhisperKit, an optimized on-device inference system for real-time ASR that significantly outperforms leading cloud-based systems. We benchmark against server-side systems that deploy a diverse set of models, including a frontier model (OpenAI gpt-4o-transcribe), a proprietary model (Deepgram nova-3), and an open-source model (Fireworks large-v3-turbo).Our results show that WhisperKit matches the lowest latency at 0.46s while achieving the highest accuracy 2.2\% WER. The optimizations behind the WhisperKit system are described in detail in this paper.
DeepL AI Platform: Translation, Voice & API
Explore our AI suite and get more done: Translate speech, text, and media, or integrate the DeepL API.
Introducing Whisper – an open source voice note taking app! Record voice notes and transcribe them into lists, blogs, & more with AI. 100% free & open source. https://t.co/UZWGkUDJ6d
Introducing Whisper – an open source voice note taking app!Record voice notes and transcribe them into lists, blogs, & more with AI.100% free & open source. pic.twitter.com/UZWGkUDJ6d— Hassan (@nutlope) July 22, 2025
talat - the local transcription app for meetings, dictation, and recordings
talat is the local transcription app for meetings, dictation, and recordings: an AI note-taker that captures both sides of every conversation and transcribes in real time, entirely on your own computer. Nothing you say is ever uploaded.
Mirai for MacOS: A faster, simpler alternative to Ollama and LM Studio
Chat with your favorite AI models directly on your Mac. Privately and securely. Built natively for macOS and Apple Silicon.
Screen Studio — Professional screen recorder for macOS
Screen recorder for macOS. Create engaging product demos, courses, tutorial and social media videos. Add automatic zoom on mouse actions, smooth mouse movement, and other powerful effects and animations. Designed for macOS.
Razberry on Twitter / X
introducing Oat - a tiny meeting recorder for your macnotetakers like granola are overkill. i wanted something to record & transcribe meetings locally, and then save a markdown file to my machine so Claude/Codex can do the rest. no signups & free. bring your own agent… pic.twitter.com/lDlFlZeDcp— Razberry (@RazberryChai) September 3, 2026
