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Dev tools · February 19, 2026

Voquill - free, open source, cross-platform alternative to WisprFlow

Hey HN, I'm Josiah. We love voice dictation, but wanted an open source version for transparency, privacy, and something that everyone could contribute to. So we built Voquill, an open source alternative to WisprFlow, Monologue, and Willow. It lets you dictate into any desktop app. Press a hotkey, talk, text gets inserted. You can run Whisper locally, use our server, or wire up any provider you want (OpenAI, Claude, Groq, OpenRouter, whatever). You have full control over where your data goes. Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Open source, AGPLv3, built with Tauri and Rust. We're working on a…

Voquill - free, open source, cross-platform alternative to WisprFlow launched on February 19, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,572 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Open source voice dictation technology. Contribute to voquill/voquill development by creating an account on GitHub.

Voquill is an open-source, cross-platform AI voice typing app that lets you dictate into any desktop application, clean the transcript with AI, and keep your personal glossary in sync. The repository contains the desktop and mobile apps, documentation site, enterprise services, CLI, and shared packages. Unless otherwise noted, Voquill is released under the AGPLv3. See LICENCE for the complete terms and third-party attributions. See docs/getting-started.md for setup instructions and architecture details. We love our community! Thank you to everyone who has contributed tofrom github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN, I'm Josiah. We love voice dictation, but wanted an open source version for transparency, privacy, and something that everyone could contribute to. So we built Voquill, an open source alternative to WisprFlow, Monologue, and Willow. It lets you dictate into any desktop app. Press a hotkey, talk, text gets…

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