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Products that do what AudioTextLayer does

Real-time subtitles for any audio playing on your Mac

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   Subtitly▲136

   Realtime subtitles & translations for any app

   2024

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   TalkTastic for macOS▲520

   Context-aware voice keyboard for any app

   2024

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   Descript▲869

   Text-based audio editor and automated transcription

   2017 · descript.com

4. 4
   Wave▲310

   Turn your voice into text — local or cloud, your choice

   Jun 2026 · wave.mxv.sh

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   VoxTori▲70

   Real-time subtitles, translation, and dictation for Mac

   Apr 2026 · voxtori.com

6. 6
   Trace▲88

   No-frills offline meeting transcripts with context

   May 2026 · traceapp.info

7. 7
   superwhisper▲274

   Extremely accurate, AI powered voice-to-text for macOS

   2023

8. 8
   Speakmac▲190

   The offline dictation macOS should have had

   Nov 2025

9. 9
   Dictato▲93

   Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac

   Feb 2026

10. 10
    GlossOne▲5

    On-device live transcription and bilingual subtitles

    Jun 2026 · glossone.app

11. 11
    MacWhisper▲123

    High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac

    2023

12. 12
    TalkFlowy▲75

    Local real-time voice transcription for Mac

    Apr 2026 · talkflowy.com

13. 13
    Glasscribe▲4

    Turn any audio on your Mac into live subtitles

    Mar 2026

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    Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download▲104

    Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on. It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input. You'll set a hotkey, press it, talk, press it again, and the text gets pasted into whatever field you were in. Everything runs locally and never leaves your computer. Fully OSS and MIT licensed. With macOS 26, Apple recently added two new APIs, SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber, that do streaming on-device speech to text using models the OS ships and manages. So the app ships no model of its own and loads nothing before the first…

    Jul 2026 · github.com

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    AudioNotes▲185

    Easily record and share audio messages from your Mac menubar

    2017

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    Rescript for Desktop▲88

    A free, open source, Descript alternative. Runs on-device.

    Aug 2026 · getrescript.com

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    Narration Room▲86

    Turn source text into editable multi-voice scripts

    Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com

18. 18
    Supavoice▲206

    Voice to text app for macos

    2025

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    Yap▲140

    Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device

    Jul 2026 · frigade.com

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    Whisper Notes▲115

    Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS

    2025

21. 21
    Audio Hijack 4▲163

    Record any audio on MacOS

    2022

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    Aloud▲118

    Turn spoken feedback into tasks your coding agent can run

    17d ago · aloud.sh

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    Playtext▲108

    Turn articles into audiobooks & read 2x faster!

    2023

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    Epilude▲104

    Local voice dictation for Mac for polished text

    Jul 2026 · epilude.com

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