tiny CLI dictation for macOS
BetterWispr: local dictation for macOS
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.
Hex: local voice dictation
Private, local voice dictation. Hold the shortcut, speak, and release.
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.
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.
Tinycast — a tiny, native macOS launcher
Tinycast is a tiny, fully native macOS launcher: fuzzy app search, an inline calculator, clipboard history, snippets, notes, window management and global hotkeys, with no Electron, no account and no telemetry.
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.
msllrs/relay
A macOS menu bar app that lets you build rich LLM prompts by combining files, clipboard captures, and voice notes.
abue-ammar/tinycast
Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history.
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…
Matt Mireles on Twitter / X
Introducing...Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon- LoRA fine-tunning toolkit for Gemma LLM- runs locally on macOS via PyTorch and Metal- streams data from Google Cloud to your machine- fine-tune on audio, image and text- easy-to-use CLI wizardIf you want… pic.twitter.com/UduROxoxPU— Matt Mireles (@mattmireles) April 7, 2026
Ivan Fioravanti ᯅ on Twitter / X
Playing with Qwen3-TTS is and MLX-Audio locally on Mac Studio M3 Ultra 🔥Amazing model by @Alibaba_Qwen and great work by @Prince_Canuma bringing this magic to MLX!Tuning the voice with instructions feels like magic!Command and prompts to run it are in the video. pic.twitter.com/qIfWKOedXr— Ivan Fioravanti ᯅ (@ivanfioravanti) January 23, 2026
Running LLMs on your iPhone: 40 tok/s Gemma 4 with MLX — Adrien Grondin, Locally AI
