Dictate & AI: WhisperShortcut

Speech to Text & Transcribe

Only for Mac

Free

Mac

Turn your voice into text anywhere on your Mac. WhisperShortcut lives in your menu bar — press a shortcut, speak, and your words are ready to paste in any app. Open source. No subscription, no account. Bring your own API key, or run fully offline with local Whisper. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Dictate — Speak and get clean text on your clipboard. Use cloud models or local Whisper, fully offline and private. • Voice editing — Copy any text, then say an instruction like "make this shorter" or "translate to English" to rewrite it. • Read Aloud — Select text anywhere and hear it in natural AI voices, at the speed you choose. • AI Chat — A built-in chat with multiple models, screenshots, image and file attachments, web search and slash commands. • Screenshots — Capture your screen and attach it to a voice prompt or chat. • Live Meeting — Record and transcribe meetings as they happen, with a local transcript. • Smart Improvement — The app learns your vocabulary and preferences over time. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Local-first, with no backend and no sign-up. Your audio and text go only to the AI provider you choose with your own key — or never leave your Mac with local Whisper. WORKS WITH YOUR TOOLS Google Gemini, OpenAI (GPT), and xAI (Grok). Optional Google (Calendar, Tasks, Gmail) and Trello integrations turn chat into a hands-free assistant. Requires macOS 15.5 or later.

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- New: Run Dictate Prompt fully offline with a local OpenAI-compatible server such as Ollama or LM Studio — just set the endpoint and model in Settings. - Chat: email questions now get a real answer instead of dead-ending, replies keep a consistent tone, and the sidebar shows Today and Yesterday expanded by default. - Fix: resolved a Gemini 3 chat error that could break tool calls.

The developer, Magnus Godde, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    Seller
    • Magnus Godde
    Size
    • 7.3 MB
    Category
    • Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 15.5 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.5 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © Magnus Gödde