Offline Dictation and Voice Typing Apps

Vocaldi is a paid Mac app that combines voice typing with read-aloud for people who prefer speaking to typing or listening to written text. Transcription, dictation cleanup and speech synthesis run on your Mac, so the audio and text you process stay on the device. It requires Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later.

Munder Difflin is a desktop app for developers who want coding agents to collaborate on their own machine. You give an orchestrator a request, and it divides the work among agents instead of leaving you to coordinate separate terminals.

Whisper Notes transcribes interviews, lectures and meetings for people who need recordings to stay on their own device. It works without an internet connection or account.

fcitx5-vinput adds voice typing to Fcitx5 on Linux. It's for people who want to dictate text and use spoken instructions to edit it, with a choice between local speech recognition and cloud services.

MacWhisper turns recordings into editable transcripts for people working with interviews, lectures, podcasts and meetings. Local transcription works offline and keeps the audio on your Mac.

ScribeDog is a Markdown editor for writers and note-takers who want AI help with documents they keep in their own folders. It shows formatted content while saving plain Markdown files that other editors can open.

TranscriptionSuite is a speech-to-text app for people recording lectures, transcribing conversations or dictating documents on their own hardware. Transcription works offline after the app and model downloads, keeping audio and transcripts local.

Speech Note lets you dictate, read aloud and translate multilingual notes on Linux and Sailfish OS. It's for people who want speech and text processing to stay on their device and work offline.

Transcribro lets Android users dictate text with speech recognition running on their device. It supports English only and can also provide transcription to compatible apps.

Voicetypr is a desktop dictation app for people who write emails, code, prompts, or notes throughout the day. It inserts speech as text wherever your cursor sits, including in Slack, Gmail, Cursor, and Notion. Local transcription works offline, with your recordings and transcripts staying on your machine. The source code uses the AGPL-3.0 license; the desktop product is paid.

nerd-dictation turns speech into text for people who want voice input in their Linux applications. It runs recognition locally with VOSK and works offline, with command-line controls for dictation.

Parakeety is a paid Mac dictation app for people who want to speak into the app they're already using without sending their voice to a cloud service. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 or later and places the transcript at the cursor. Intel Macs aren't supported.

Amical is an AI dictation app for people who want to write emails, messages and coding prompts by speaking. It adjusts the resulting text to the app you're using, reducing the editing needed after transcription.

OpenWhispr is a dictation and meeting transcription app for people who want to write by voice and keep searchable records of conversations. It lets you choose local processing or cloud providers.

Dictus Desktop is a free, open source voice dictation app for macOS, Windows and Linux. It turns speech into text in the app you're typing in, with transcription handled entirely on your computer. It's for people who want to dictate messages, documents or emails without sending their recordings to a cloud service.

Utter is a proprietary dictation app for macOS that transcribes speech with local Whisper models. It's for people who want to speak into everyday apps or coding tools while keeping their audio on their own computer. Transcription runs on your Mac, and no audio leaves the device.

WhisperBuddy is a native macOS app for people who need transcripts, subtitles, or voice dictation while keeping their recordings on their own computer. It transcribes audio and video files, listens to live input, and translates transcripts offline. Audio and text stay on your Mac.

Voibe is a paid AI dictation and meeting notes app for people handling confidential work, including legal, healthcare and finance professionals. It types spoken text into other apps and captures meetings on a Mac without a bot joining the call. Dictation works on Mac and Windows; meeting capture is Mac-only.

TalkToPaste is a voice dictation utility for macOS and Windows that runs speech recognition on your computer. The official site links to the VoiceToClipboard repository, which documents the local implementation and installation scripts. Transcription works offline after the speech model has been downloaded.

Hold Speak is a macOS menu bar app for people who want to dictate prompts to AI agents or enter text in other apps. It runs Whisper locally on your GPU through WhisperKit and CoreML, so local transcription works offline and keeps speech on your Mac. Push-to-talk dictation inserts the transcript into the focused text field.

Superwhisper turns spoken words into text in the app you're using. It suits people who prefer dictating messages, documents or requests to coding assistants over typing them.

Pretype is a local AI writing assistant for people who want sentence suggestions across their Mac apps. It works in native apps, Electron apps and web text fields without separate plugins for each app.

AudioBud is a dictation app for Windows that puts speech into the text field you're writing in. It builds on Handy by CJ Pais and suits people who want voice typing with local speech recognition rather than a hosted transcription service.

Open Wispr is a voice dictation tool for people who want to speak into Mac apps while keeping audio and text on their computer. It inserts transcribed speech at the cursor in editors, browsers, terminals, email and other applications.

OpenSuperWhisper is a speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate or transcribe saved recordings on an Apple Silicon Mac. It runs Whisper and Parakeet models locally.

Handy is a desktop speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate into the apps they already use. It transcribes speech on your computer and inserts the text into the active text field.

WhisperWriter turns microphone speech into typed text in your active window. It's for people who want dictation in their desktop apps, with a choice of transcription on their own computer or through an API.

Witsy is a desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with models, work with documents and write across applications. You can choose local models or cloud providers, with feature availability depending on the backend.

Braina combines AI chat, dictation and computer control for people who want to work through spoken or typed commands. It can run language models on your own computer and help with writing, document research and repetitive desktop tasks.

MacParakeet is a speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate across Mac apps, transcribe recordings and capture meetings while keeping speech recognition on their own hardware.

BoltAI is an AI workspace for Mac users who want local models and cloud services in one app for writing, coding and research. It keeps related conversations together and brings chat into other apps through an overlay.

GooeyPi gives developers a desktop interface for working with Pi, OMP and Prime Agent on local coding projects. Each agent keeps its own models, credentials and sessions, and switching agents doesn't stop work running in another.

Wispuh is an MIT-licensed speech-to-text app for macOS 14 and later that puts dictated text into the app you're working in. It's for Mac users who want voice input across their everyday software without sending recordings to a cloud service. It doesn't require an account.

Talon Voice lets people write, code, browse and play games through hands-free computer input. It suits people who want to control their computer using speech, eye movements or sounds.