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Products that do what idict – offline AI dictation for Mac does

iDict is a macOS app that turns voice into text anywhere.

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   TalkTastic for macOS▲520

   Context-aware voice keyboard for any app

   2024

2. 2
   Walkie▲228

   Free local AI voice dictation tool

   Apr 2026 · trywalkie.com

3. 3
   Dictato▲93

   Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac

   Feb 2026 · dicta.to

4. 4
   Speakmac▲190

   The offline dictation macOS should have had

   Nov 2025 · speakmac.app

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   Smart Dictation▲90

   Multilingual transcription & translation for Mac

   2025

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   Whisper Notes▲115

   Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS

   2025

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   Wave▲310

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

   Jun 2026 · wave.mxv.sh

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   VoicePad AI▲53

   Offline voice dictation for Windows, Mac, iOS & Android

   Jul 2026 · voicepad.tech

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   TalkFlowy▲75

   Local real-time voice transcription for Mac

   Apr 2026 · talkflowy.com

10. 10
    Stet▲68

    Smart open-source dictation that sounds like you, not AI.

    Apr 2026 · stet.me

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    Voicr for Mac▲107

    Dictate and get improved or translated text

    Apr 2026 · voicr.pro

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    AI dication by Snaply▲101

    Free, 100% local, AI dictation for Mac

    Jan 2026 · snaply.ai

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    Juno▲167

    Free, local AI powered Voice to Text w/ live transcriptions

    Jun 2026 · usejuno.co

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    Mutter AI Dictation▲86

    Private AI dictation that lets you operate offline.

    Jun 2026 · muttervoice.com

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    Spoke▲102

    Private voice-to-text for macOS. Hold a key, speak, done.

    Mar 2026 · usespoke.app

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    Harker 2.0▲115

    Private speech-to-text on your Mac

    Apr 2026 · getharker.com

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    Ada Dictation, for Mac▲95

    Transcribe & edit privately, w/ unlimited minutes on desktop

    2020

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    Yap▲140

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

    Jul 2026 · frigade.com

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    dictate.▲103

    Replace your iPhone keyboard with AI voice typing

    Mar 2026 · usedictate.app

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    VibeSonic▲64

    Not just dictation and private AI voice toolkit

    Apr 2026 · vibesonic.ai

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    Phantom Voice▲79

    Local push-to-talk dictation for Mac

    Jul 2026 · leftinverse.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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    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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