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Products that do what CueBuddy does

Speak naturally. CueBuddy follows your script.

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CueBuddy▲112
Record talking videos without manual scrolling
Jun 2026 · cuebuddy.cn
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Tellie Prompter 1.5▲142
The teleprompter that knows what you haven't said
11d ago · tellieapp.com
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Aloud▲118
Turn spoken feedback into tasks your coding agent can run
17d ago · aloud.sh
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Walkie▲228
Free local AI voice dictation tool
Apr 2026
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Speechius▲127
The teleprompter that actually listens
Jul 2026 · speechius.com
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WhisperWizard▲149
Speech to text with smarter transcription
2024
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Teleprompt.me▲151
The only web-based voice controlled teleprompter!
2019
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Dictato▲93
Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac
Feb 2026
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Heard▲310
Give Claude Code and Codex a voice
Jul 2026 · heard.dev
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HyNote for Mac▲383
Free local transcription that is 100% Private
17d ago · hynote.ai
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Whisper Snapper for Mac▲139
Local transcripts with speaker labels, timestamps, + export
Dec 2025
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On Cue▲2
A teleprompter that scrolls when you talk, not on a timer
12d ago · apps.apple.com
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Yap▲140
Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device
Jul 2026 · frigade.com
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Signal Recorder SR-7▲101
On-device voice recorder that transcribes + exports Markdown
Jun 2026 · fieldbw.com
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trnscrb▲100
On-device transcription for macOS with MCP
Feb 2026
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LocalClicky▲127
Control your Mac with your voice locally
Jun 2026
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JustScribe▲117
On-device instant voice transcription
Feb 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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Harker▲138
Turn thoughts into text at the speed of speech
2025
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MacWhisper▲123
High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac
2023
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Voice Studio Companion▲111
Drag & drop voice generator tool
Dec 2025
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Phantom Voice▲79
Local push-to-talk dictation for Mac
Jul 2026 · leftinverse.com
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NotchPrompt▲137
The invisible teleprompter that lives in your MacBook Notch.
Feb 2026
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Harker 2.0▲115
Private speech-to-text on your Mac
Apr 2026

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