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Products that do what GlossOne does

On-device live transcription and bilingual subtitles

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   TalkTastic for macOS▲520

   Context-aware voice keyboard for any app

   2024

2. 2
   Subtitly▲136

   Realtime subtitles & translations for any app

   2024

3. 3
   Stenox▲72

   Your voice, perfectly transcribed in every app & browser

   Jan 2026

4. 4
   Converse▲385

   Turn your iPhone into a translation device

   2017

5. 5
   HyNote for Mac▲383

   Free local transcription that is 100% Private

   17d ago · hynote.ai

6. 6
   TongueType for macOS▲109

   Local dictation for macOS without the subscription

   May 2026 · tonguetype.app

7. 7
   Trace▲88

   No-frills offline meeting transcripts with context

   May 2026 · traceapp.info

8. 8
   Monologue for iOS▲263

   Turn your voice into polished writing—wherever you go.

   Feb 2026

9. 9
   Megaphone▲102

   Open-source Mac dictation App that's 100% on-device

   Jul 2026 · megaphone.kuber.studio

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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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    Dictato▲93

    Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac

    Feb 2026

12. 12
    JustScribe▲117

    On-device instant voice transcription

    Feb 2026

13. 13
    Yap▲140

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

    Jul 2026 · frigade.com

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    Rescript for Desktop▲88

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

    Aug 2026 · getrescript.com

15. 15
    VoxTori▲70

    Real-time subtitles, translation, and dictation for Mac

    Apr 2026 · voxtori.com

16. 16
    WhisperWizard▲149

    Speech to text with smarter transcription

    2024

17. 17
    Signal Recorder SR-7▲101

    On-device voice recorder that transcribes + exports Markdown

    Jun 2026 · fieldbw.com

18. 18
    Epilude▲104

    Local voice dictation for Mac for polished text

    Jul 2026 · epilude.com

19. 19
    Zen Whisper▲136

    On-device Mac dictation that types into any app

    Aug 2026 · zenproducts.ai

20. 20
    MacWhisper▲123

    High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac

    2023

21. 21
    Smart Dictation▲90

    Multilingual transcription & translation for Mac

    2025

22. 22
    Celyn▲80

    Real-time audio translation for Mac

    Apr 2026 · celyn.app

23. 23
    Whisper Notes▲115

    Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS

    2025

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    Dictura▲81

    Hold a key, speak, release- translated text at your cursor

    Mar 2026 · dictura.com

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