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Products that do what PlugTalk does

Your Mac talks back when you plug things in

1. 1
   Spokenly▲178

   Type 4x faster with your voice

   2025

2. 2
   VolumeHub▲195

   Per-app volume control for macOS with no driver installs

   Feb 2026

3. 3
   Yap▲140

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

   Jul 2026 · frigade.com

4. 4
   MacYaps▲88

   Battery dying? WiFi gone? Your Mac finally talks back.

   Apr 2026

5. 5
   MacWhisper▲123

   High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac

   2023

6. 6
   StreamPad▲137

   Turn your iPhone/iPad into a studio-grade pro control deck

   Mar 2026

7. 7
   SoundPipe▲142

   SoundPipe is a mixing board for your Mac

   Jul 2026 · soundpipe.app

8. 8
   Klack▲179

   Satisfying sound with every keystroke

   2025

9. 9
   Walkie▲228

   Free local AI voice dictation tool

   Apr 2026

10. 10
    SoundBar▲82

    Realtime audio level meter for mac menu bar

    2025

11. 11
    AudioPriorityBar▲217

    Priority-based audio switching for macOS menu bar

    Dec 2025

12. 12
    Blankie▲181

    Open-source ambient sound mixer for macOS

    2025

13. 13
    Speakmac▲190

    The offline dictation macOS should have had

    Nov 2025

14. 14
    Megaphone▲102

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

    Jul 2026 · megaphone.kuber.studio

15. 15
    Whisper Snapper for Mac▲139

    Local transcripts with speaker labels, timestamps, + export

    Dec 2025

16. 16
    Hear▲234

    Unlimited control over real-world sounds

    2016

17. 17
    Play Spotify together by Remotion▲227

    Talk and listen to music like you’re side by side

    2022

18. 18
    Zen Whisper▲136

    On-device Mac dictation that types into any app

    Aug 2026 · zenproducts.ai

19. 19
    Soundbar▲213

    A lightweight SoundCloud player for Mac

    2016

20. 20
    Spoke▲102

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

    Mar 2026

21. 21
    TongueType for macOS▲109

    Local dictation for macOS without the subscription

    May 2026

22. 22
    Dictato▲93

    Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac

    Feb 2026

23. 23
    SoundSource 3.0▲102

    The sound control that should be built into MacOS

    2017

24. 24YO
    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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