Whisper
Talk to your computer like a human. Whisper transcribes your voice instantly—100% offline, 100% private. No cloud, no subscriptions. Was $49, now $29.
Whisper launched on December 24, 2025 with 6 votes, #1,714 of 11,628 launches that month.
What it does
Talk instead of type. Whisper transcribes your voice instantly 100% offline, 100% private. Unlike Otter, Wispr Flow, or Google Voice Typing, your words never touch a server. Everything runs locally on your Mac using local AI, optimized for Apple Silicon. Press a hotkey, speak, watch text appear in any app—Slack, VS Code, Gmail, Notion, anywhere. 99+ languages. GPU-accelerated speed. No subscriptions. No accounts. No data collection. $29 per Year. 14-day refund.
Whisper's new engine runs on your device's GPU — the moment you stop talking, your words are on screen, punctuation and all. An hour of audio in about a minute. No cloud. No subscriptions. macOS (Apple Silicon) · Windows 10/11 · Linux (Ubuntu 22.04+) Zero servers. Zero uploads. Everything happens on your machine. We literally cannot see your data. GPU-accelerated transcription. Words appear as you speak them. No loading spinners, ever. Airplane mode? No WiFi? Sketchy coffee shop? Doesn't matter. Whisper just works. They send your voice to some server farm. They store it. They "improve their models" with it. They have "privacy policies" longer than novels. We removed all that nonsense.…from get-whisper.com
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Whisper Buddy2025 · whisperbuddy.com · ▲21I was laid off recently and, instead of looking for another job right away, I decided to build something I always wanted: a transcription tool that respects user privacy. Existing transcription tools often require internet connectivity, send your private audio to cloud servers, or lock you into monthly subscriptions. I wanted something different—so I built WhisperBuddy, a privacy-first AI transcription app that runs entirely on your machine. WhisperBuddy uses OpenAI’s Whisper model (see: https://github.com/openai/whisper). While the model may not always deliver the…
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