Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Wave
Turn your voice into text — local or cloud, your choice
Wave is a macOS voice-to-text application that transcribes speech and places the result directly into any application. Users hold a hotkey to record, then release to process their speech using an AI model—either… 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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Transcribe + summarize audio and phone calls in any language
2024 · its alternatives →
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Aqua Voice▲579Incredibly fast voice input for Mac and Windows
2025 · aquavoice.com · its alternatives →
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Context-aware voice keyboard for any app
2024 · talktastic.com · its alternatives →
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Spoke▲102Dictate 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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SpeakLine 5▲117Your text-to-speech companion for macOS, iOS and visionOS
2024 · pxlwaves.com · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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Yapfree▲140Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device
Jul 2026 · frigade.com · its alternatives →
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Whisper Notes▲115Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS
2025 · whispernotes.app · its alternatives →
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superwhisper▲274Extremely accurate, AI powered voice-to-text for macOS
2023 · superwhisper.com · its alternatives →
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WhisperUI▲120Most affordable text-to-speech and speech-to-text service
2024 · whisperui.com · its alternatives →
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Aloud▲118Turn spoken feedback into tasks your coding agent can run
Aug 2026 · aloud.sh · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m Mike, the founder and creator of Wave, a cross-platform open-source terminal that supports inline rendering, modern UI, and persistent sessions. I love the command line; I’ve been using it for over 25 years, starting with a Linux box I made with spare parts in my college dorm room. But while other devtools have been modernized, the terminal has been stuck, with the same basic functionality for over 40-years. What if your command line terminal could display more than just text? That’s crazy right (I can hear the screams of thousands of graybeard sysadmins). Not all the time, but…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Voice Anywhere▲152A floating mic that turns your speech into text anywhere
Feb 2026 · procoders.co · its alternatives →
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Record, capture and transcribe audio & video in minutes
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Silkwavefree tier, from $19.99/mo▲104AI transcription app and note taker for macOS. Record meetings, lectures, and podcasts or import audio files you already have, transcribe in 10+ languages using on-device Apple models, see who said what with on-device speaker identification, get ChatGPT-powered summaries, and chat with your recordin
Jan 2026 · silkwave.ai · its alternatives →
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Sayline▲83I 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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Wavee▲2Wave your voice & get text at your cursor
May 2026 · trywavee.johuniq.tech · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m Michael, creator of AudiowaveAI. I started this project out of frustration when I couldn't find an audiobook version of Make by Pieter Levels. The available text-to-speech options were either too robotic, overly complex, or simply too costly. It works really well for non-fiction long-form content (i.e. hours of audio). It’s early days for AudiowaveAI, and I’m looking for feedback to improve the product. Try it out and share your thoughts: [AudiowaveAI](https://audiowaveai.com). Thanks!
2024 · audiowaveai.com · its alternatives →
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2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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