STTBar
Voice to text in any app
Only for Mac
$1.99
Mac
STTBar turns your voice into finished text, in any app on your Mac.
Press a hotkey and speak. Press it again and STTBar transcribes the recording, on your Mac or on a server of your choice. The text appears where your cursor is: in an email, a chat, your editor or the prompt field of an AI assistant.
What STTBar does:
• Three hotkeys: cleaned-up text, raw transcript and English output (speak German, paste English).
• On-device speech recognition with Parakeet or WhisperKit. After the model download, recognition works offline. Local models are preloaded when the app starts.
• Or a Whisper server: on a computer in your network or on the internet, with an API key if it needs one.
• Optional cleanup with a language model of your choice: locally, for example in LM Studio or Ollama, or hosted through OpenRouter and other OpenAI-compatible services. It removes filler words and gives the text a clear structure. Cleanup mode can fall back to the raw transcript if enabled. English output requires a working language model endpoint.
• API keys stay in your Mac's keychain and only go to the server they belong to.
• A small overlay with a live waveform shows whether STTBar is recording, transcribing or cleaning up.
• Word replacements for names and jargon, so they are always spelled right.
• History with privacy controls, and a sensitive mode that never stores a dictation.
• German or English interface.
No account, no subscription, no ads. Recordings and texts leave your Mac only if you add a server or service yourself.
STTBar needs access to the microphone and to Accessibility. Accessibility is required to insert the text into the active app.
Requires macOS 14 and a Mac with Apple silicon. On-device recognition downloads model files once. The first download and preparation can take 1 to 5 minutes.
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New in 1.8.0:
• Faster on-device transcription with Parakeet. WhisperKit remains available.
• Local models are loaded and warmed when the app starts, reducing the wait before your first dictation.
• Clearer guidance during the one-time model download and preparation.
• Improved launch responsiveness when loading API keys.
• Updated privacy manifest declarations.
The developer, Simon-Daniel Marz, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Simon-Daniel Marz
- Size
- 9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 ProjectMakers
