AI Dictation
Dictate into any text field with a shortcut, using offline recognition or optional cloud transcription.GetMIT
Dictation apps
Open-source dictation apps for Mac: press a shortcut, speak, and get the transcribed text typed into any app, often fully on-device.
Dictation apps turn speech into text in whatever app you are using. You hold or press a shortcut, speak, and the transcript is pasted at the cursor. Many of the apps below run speech models such as Whisper or Parakeet on your Mac; others send audio to a cloud service.
Check where your audio is processed, which languages and models are supported, and whether the app rewrites or cleans up what you said. Push-to-talk versus toggle shortcuts, custom vocabulary and per-app settings also vary.
All Apps
21 open-source apps
Blurt
Push-to-talk dictation from AssemblyAI that pastes cleaned-up text into whichever Mac app has focus.GetMIT
Dictly
Hold a hotkey, speak, and get the text pasted or copied, transcribed on your Mac by Whisper.GetMIT
EnviousWispr
On-device dictation that transcribes speech with Parakeet or Whisper, optionally polishes it, and pastes the text.GetGPL-3.0
FnKey
Hold the Fn key, speak, and release to paste a cloud transcription of what you said.GetGPL-3.0
FreeFlow
Hold a key to dictate into any text field, with AI transcription and cleanup through Groq or another provider.GetMIT
Handy
Hold a shortcut, speak, and have offline speech recognition type the words into whatever app you are using.GetMIT
LokalBot
On-device meeting notes, dictation, autocomplete and searchable workday recall powered by local AI models.GetGPL-3.0
MacParakeet
A local voice app for dictation into any app, transcription of audio and video files, and meeting recording.GetGPL-3.0
Open Dictation
Press a shortcut, speak, and have your words transcribed locally and pasted at the cursor.GetMIT
OpenLess
Hold a hotkey and speak: OpenLess transcribes your voice, polishes it with an AI model and inserts the text at the cursor.GetAGPL-3.0
OpenQuack
Menu-bar voice dictation: press a hotkey, speak, and the transcript is typed at the cursor using on-device Whisper.GetMIT
OpenTypeless
Voice typing that turns speech into cleaned-up text in any app, with your own AI keys or an optional paid cloud.GetMIT
OpenVoiceFlow
Push-to-talk dictation that transcribes on device with Whisper and pastes the text into whichever app you are using.GetAGPL-3.0+
Typeflux
Hold Fn to dictate into any app, or double-press it to ask an AI assistant, with on-device speech models supported.GetAGPL-3.0
TypeWhisper
Dictate into any app with on-device speech recognition or cloud APIs, then reshape text with workflows.GetGPL-3.0+
VoiceInk
Dictate into any app with on-device speech models, push-to-talk shortcuts and per-app modes.GetGPL-3.0
VoxFlow
System-wide dictation plus a local workbench for screenshots, recordings, clipboard items and notes, with OCR and AI tools.GetGPL-3.0+
Voxt
Voice input and translation in any app, with AI rewriting of what you say plus note and meeting modes for longer audio.GetApache-2.0
Whispering
Dictate with a shortcut, transcribe through local or cloud speech models, and paste the polished text at the cursor.GetAGPL-3.0+
Yap
Dictate into any text field with a shortcut, transcribed on device by Apple’s speech framework without accounts or API keys.GetMIT
