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24 alternatives to Revi

On-device voice dictation. No cloud, no account.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Dictatofree tier, from $20.82/mo▲93

    I built a macOS dictation app where everything runs on-device. Transcription, auto-correct, translation. No audio or text leaves your machine. It ships with 4 transcription engines you can swap between: WhisperKit (99 languages), NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B (25 European languages, fastest of the bunch), Qwen3-ASR 0.6B (30 languages), and Apple Speech on macOS 26+. They all run through CoreML/Metal. Whisper is the most versatile, Parakeet wins on raw latency for European languages, Qwen3 does better with CJK. I went with a protocol-based architecture so you pick the engine that fits your…

    Feb 2026 · dicta.to · its alternatives →

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    Offline voice dictation for Windows, Mac, iOS & Android

    Jul 2026 · voicepad.tech · its alternatives →

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    Speakmac▲190

    The offline dictation macOS should have had

    Nov 2025 · speakmac.app · its alternatives →

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    Walkie▲228

    Dictation + meetings + read aloud in one app on-device

    Apr 2026 · trywalkie.com · its alternatives →

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    On-device Mac dictation that types into any app

    Aug 2026 · zenproducts.ai · its alternatives →

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    Stenox▲72

    Your voice, perfectly transcribed in every app & browser

    Jan 2026 · stenox.app · its alternatives →

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    Not just dictation and private AI voice toolkit

    Apr 2026 · vibesonic.ai · its alternatives →

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    Spoke▲102

    Dictate into any Mac app by holding a key. Spoke runs fully on-device using local AI — no cloud, no account, no subscription. $9.99 one-time.

    Mar 2026 · usespoke.app · its alternatives →

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    Megaphone▲102

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

    Jul 2026 · megaphone.kuber.studio · its alternatives →

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    Hey Siri▲260

    Commands you can use on your iOS and macOS Devices

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Sayline▲83

    I built a voice dictation app for macOS mostly because I was tired of how awful Siri is and I didn't want to pay a subscription for cloud tools. The app uses NVIDIA's Parakeet v3 (TDT) as the primary engine. Inference is handled by the FluidAudio library. It's insanely fast on M-series chips. For Intel users, I added local Whisper support ranging from Tiny up to Large v3 Turbo (quantized to save space). The interesting part was the AI integration. I originally tried to pipeline the ASR output into Apple's Intelligence Foundation Model. It was a nightmare, because the content moderation…

    Jan 2026 · sayline.app · its alternatives →

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

    Aug 2026 · speakoflow.com · its alternatives →

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    Supavoice▲206

    Voice to text app for macos

    2025 · supavoice.app · its alternatives →

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    Yapfree▲140

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

    Jul 2026 · frigade.com · its alternatives →

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    Vox ▲27

    On-device AI dictation for Mac and Windows. Press, speak, paste — no cloud round-trip, no app account, no waiting.

    Jun 2026 · vox.rizenhq.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm a longtime web dev, but this is my first macOS app. Feedback is very welcome <3 I built TongueType because every dictation app I tried failed at least one of three things: it sent my audio to someone's cloud, it charged me monthly fee, or it felt clunky or enterprisy. The cloud thing kills it for anything sensitive. The subscription thing is insulting for what amounts to "Whisper + a hotkey." TongueType runs Whisper locally on Apple Silicon via CoreML. It's built to feel like a second keyboard: tap the hotkey, talk, let go, words appear. It sits in the menu bar (no dock icon, no…

    May 2026 · tonguetype.app · its alternatives →

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    Stet▲68

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

    Apr 2026 · stet.me · its alternatives →

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    Voice-to-text for macOS with a fully on-device option

    Jun 2026 · vtt.the-ihor.com · its alternatives →

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    Aloud▲118

    Turn spoken feedback into tasks your coding agent can run

    Aug 2026 · aloud.sh · its alternatives →

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    dictate.▲103

    Replace your iPhone keyboard with AI voice typing

    Mar 2026 · usedictate.app · its alternatives →

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    Local push-to-talk dictation for Mac

    Jul 2026 · leftinverse.com · its alternatives →

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    Local AI dictation for Windows

    Aug 2026 · whisperstream.io · its alternatives →

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    Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS

    2025 · whispernotes.app · its alternatives →

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