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Wispr: Privacy-first voice dictation for macOS — powered by on-device Whisper AI. It is listed under Productivity on AI Registry as a free tool.
The tools below are approved listings in the same category, ordered by how closely their tags match Wispr. This is an automatic list. We have not written a researched verdict for Wispr yet, so treat it as a shortlist and check each vendor's pricing page before switching.
Built from each tool's listing. Vendors can update their own listing after claiming it.
Local-first voice dictation for macOS.
HEX is a voice dictation app for Mac and Linux. The vendor describes it as private and local: a user holds the Option key, speaks and releases, and HEX pastes the transcribed text into whatever application has focus. The download page lists version 2.1.25 for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 15 or later, with GitHub o...
Voice AI runtime. Local first transcription, speaker diarization, TTS, and voice cloning with an OpenAI compatible API.
Izwi is a local first audio inference engine for speech, voice and chat workflows. It runs entirely on the user's own machine, so there are no cloud services, no API keys and no data leaving the device. The listing points to its user documentation site. The documented capabilities cover a broad set of audio tasks. Voi...
Muesli: agent-native local meeting transcription + dictation for macOS (Granola + WisprFlow alternative)
Muesli is an open source Mac app for dictation and meeting transcription that runs speech to text on the device. It targets Apple Silicon Macs and uses local speech models, with Parakeet and Whisper named on the site, so audio does not have to be uploaded to a cloud service. From the menu bar, the user holds a hotkey,...
Capture first. Organize later.
NoteGen is an open source, cross platform AI note taking app built around the idea of capturing first and organizing later. It stores notes as plain Markdown files, so they can sync across devices through services such as OneDrive or iCloud Drive. Everything enters one stream of records: text, voice, screenshots, imag...
Local, private voice dictation for macOS
Open Wispr is a free voice dictation tool for macOS that transcribes speech entirely on the user's own Mac. The user holds a key, speaks, and releases it, and the transcribed text is typed at the cursor in whatever app has focus, including editors, browsers, terminals, Slack and email. Transcription uses whisper.cpp w...
Free, open-source offline voice dictation for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
SpeakoFlow is a free, open source voice dictation and AI assistant for desktop. A user holds a key and talks, and the words are typed into whatever app has focus, including Slack, Gmail, ChatGPT, Notion, Cursor, Google Docs, Claude, Discord and Obsidian. It supports up to 99 languages and offers both live transcription...