Yapper

What it does

Dictation app for macOS. Press a hotkey, talk, text appears at your cursor. Whisper runs locally on your Mac, so your audio never leaves your machine. If you want the output cleaned up, send it through OpenAI, Anthropic, or a local Ollama model. Seven built-in modes (plain transcription, email, message, notes, meeting, smart) or make your own. The AI modes read your clipboard, selected text, and what app you're in to format the output accordingly. Free. Open source. MIT license.

Free alternative to Superwhisper. Speech-to-text runs locally on your Mac. Optional AI cleanup with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or Ollama. Open source, MIT license.

AI dictation for macOS. Speech-to-text runs locally on your Mac, nothing leaves your machine. Optional AI cleanup via OpenAI, Anthropic, or Ollama. Whisper handles transcription on your Mac. An LLM cleans it up if you want. Whisper transcribes locally. Your audio stays on disk. Cloud AI is opt-in, not the default. Runs OpenAI's Whisper models right on your machine. Multiple sizes from tiny to large, pick what fits. Send the transcript through GPT, Claude, or a local Ollama model to clean up tone, grammar, formatting. Knows your clipboard, selected text, and what app you're in. The AI uses that context to write better. Option+Space from anywhere. Talk, stop, text shows up at your cursor.…from ahmedlhanafy.github.io

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  DictatoFeb 2026 · dicta.to · ▲93

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