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Products that do what FloWords does

AI voice-to-text for Mac. Local-first. No subscription.

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   VibeSonic▲64

   Not just dictation and private AI voice toolkit

   Apr 2026 · vibesonic.ai

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   WhisperWizard▲149

   Speech to text with smarter transcription

   2024

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   Whisper Notes▲115

   Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS

   2025

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   I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI▲224

   2022 · freesubtitles.ai

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   Dictato▲93

   Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac

   Feb 2026 · dicta.to

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   Walkie▲228

   Free local AI voice dictation tool

   Apr 2026 · trywalkie.com

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   AI Voices by Asyncflow v1.0▲401

   Premium AI voice quality without the premium price tag.

   2025

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   Whisper Snapper for Mac▲139

   Local transcripts with speaker labels, timestamps, + export

   Dec 2025 · whispersnapper.com

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   WhisperDictation for Mac - Faster better▲6

   Perfect voice dictation for macOS, powered by Whisper AI.

   Jan 2026 · dictationformac.com

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    Parrot Speech-to-text API▲194

    Fast, accurate STT for production-grade voice agents

    May 2026 · ringg.ai

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    MacWhisper▲123

    High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac

    2023

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    Whisperstream▲77

    Local AI dictation for Windows

    20d ago · whisperstream.io

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    WhisperFusion – Low-latency conversations with an AI chatbot▲272

    WhisperFusion builds upon the capabilities of open source tools WhisperLive and WhisperSpeech to provide a seamless conversations with an AI chatbot.

    2024 · github.com

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    TalkFlowy▲75

    Local real-time voice transcription for Mac

    Apr 2026 · talkflowy.com

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    SpeakoFlow▲95

    Free, open-source voice dictation and AI assistant, offline

    Aug 2026 · speakoflow.com

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    TongueType for macOS▲109

    Local dictation for macOS without the subscription

    May 2026 · tonguetype.app

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    Aloud▲118

    Turn spoken feedback into tasks your coding agent can run

    18d ago · aloud.sh

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    Whisper Island by Coddo▲71

    Voice transcription lives in the Mac notch

    May 2026 · coddo.ai

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    VoicePad AI▲53

    Offline voice dictation for Windows, Mac, iOS & Android

    Jul 2026 · voicepad.tech

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    VoiSistant▲80

    AI-powered speech to text, tts, & translation Mac app

    Oct 2025

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    Whisper▲6

    Your voice, your Mac, your privacy

    Dec 2025 · get-whisper.com

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    superwhisper – AI powered offline voice to text for macOS▲43

    Hey HN, I built superwhisper out of frustration with the native dictation capabilities of macOS. Inaccurate, required manual punctuation, didnt activate in some contexts or would have audio capture issues. I wanted a replacement that worked offline, had cross language support, was configurable and worked in any application. Under the hood the app is using whisper.cpp, which runs really well on the Apple Silicon chips. You can use the base and standard size models for free, larger models sizes and languages other than english are paid. Let me know what you think! For context, I launched this…

    2023 · superwhisper.com

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    FloWords

    AI voice-to-text for Mac. Local-first. No subscription.

    Mar 2026 · flowords.app

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    Silkwave Voice▲70

    Record your microphone, system audio simultaneously

    Apr 2026 · silkwave.ai

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