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Products that do what ora does

Your personal simultaneous interpreter, on your Mac

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Lispr▲240
Hold a key, speak, and Lispr writes it anywhere
Jul 2026 · lispr.ai
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Macuse▲114
Give Your AI Superpowers on macOS
Jul 2026 · macuse.app
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HyNote for Mac▲383
Free local transcription that is 100% Private
18d ago · hynote.ai
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Orate▲258
The AI toolkit for speech
2025
5IM
I made an open source and local translation app▲236
A few years ago, right after high school, I decided to try to make a simultaneous translation app for Android as a side project, it took longer than expected (about 2 years) and I had to make a lot of compromises (I had to use Google's API and therefore make users use a developer key because at the time there were no free solutions for speech recognition and translation that had good quality). At the end of university, I decided to pick it up again and finally, using OpenAi's Whisper for speech recognition and Meta's NLLB for translation (with both running locally on the phone), I managed to…
2024 · github.com
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Spellar▲188
Your assistant with smart modes to capture and export notes
2025
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Whisper Snapper for Mac▲139
Local transcripts with speaker labels, timestamps, + export
Dec 2025
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VoiSistant▲80
AI-powered speech to text, tts, & translation Mac app
Oct 2025
9PM
Pinch – macOS voice translation for real-time conversations▲65
Hey HN! I’m Christian, daily lurker and some might remember our original launch post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42935355). Today we're launching Pinch for Mac, which we believe is a step-change improvement in real-time AI translation. Our vision is to make cross-lingual conversations feel as natural as regular conversations. TL:DR During an online meeting, the app instantly transcribes and translates all audio you hear, and allows you to decide when you translate your voice and when you don't. It's invisible to others (like Granola), and works everywhere without any…
2025 · startpinch.com
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Dictato▲93
Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac
Feb 2026
11NI
NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)▲156
This lets you talk to local LLMs in Apple Notes. I saw Obsidian Ollama (https://github.com/hinterdupfinger/obsidian-ollama) and thought it was handy, but I'm too lazy to migrate away from the Apple ecosystem, so I quickly hacked this together. I tend to use Notes as a scratchpad for prompts, so it's nice to do some quick inference without leaving the app. Notes doesn't really support plugins so I'm using the macOS accessibility API for reading selections and then stream responses using the clipboard (not ideal but it works).
2024 · smallest.app
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AI dication by Snaply▲101
Free, 100% local, AI dictation for Mac
Jan 2026
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Najva▲147
Your free AI-powered voice assistant for Mac
2024
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Dictura▲81
Hold a key, speak, release- translated text at your cursor
Mar 2026 · dictura.com
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Plae▲87
The missing translation app for macOS
Feb 2026
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Caplo▲107
Real-time AI captions & translation for any iOS app
Mar 2026
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Revi▲64
On-device voice dictation. No cloud, no account.
Jun 2026 · getrevi.app
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Smart Dictation▲90
Multilingual transcription & translation for Mac
2025
19AM
A macOS Client for HuggingFace Chat▲108
2024 · github.com
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Nota: AI Notes & Voice▲80
Turn voice, scans, sketches, and text into notes with AI
May 2026 · nota.talk
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TongueType for macOS▲109
Local dictation for macOS without the subscription
May 2026 · tonguetype.app
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Overspot▲75
The best translation app for macOS.
2018
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VTT for Mac▲88
Voice-to-text for macOS with a fully on-device option
Jun 2026 · vtt.the-ihor.com
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TinyTranslate▲72
The first limitless translator on Mac.
2022

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