Transcribe audio & video privately on your Mac. Batch transcribe multiple files, identify up to 10 speakers, export to any format, live transcriptions & more
Transcribe videos, podcasts, and meetings with AI. Works offline with local models or online with OpenAI, NVIDIA, and more. Speaker identification, AI translation, and summarization included.
Transform any audio or video into accurate text with Whisper Snapper — the powerful transcription app for Mac that works online or completely offline.
TRANSCRIBE ANYTHING
Import MP4, MOV, M4A, MP3, and WAV files or record audio directly in the app. Whether it's a podcast, lecture, interview, meeting, or video — get your transcript in seconds.
CLOUD + LOCAL AI MODELS
Choose your transcription engine:
- Cloud: OpenAI Whisper API & NVIDIA Deepgram for fast, accurate results
- Local: Download NVIDIA Parakeet or WhisperKit models and transcribe 100% offline — your audio never leaves your Mac
AI TRANSLATION — 30 LANGUAGES
Translate your transcripts locally using Llama 3.2. Supports Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Polish, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. No internet required.
AI SUMMARIZATION
Get instant summaries of your transcripts powered by on-device Llama 3.2. Summarize in the original language or any of the 20 supported languages — all processed locally for complete privacy.
SPEAKER DIARIZATION
Identify who said what. Perfect for interviews, meetings, and multi-speaker recordings. Available with NVIDIA Deepgram, OpenAI Whisper, and NVIDIA Parakeet.
POWERFUL EXPORT OPTIONS
Export your transcripts to TXT, SRT, VTT, Markdown, CSV, or PDF. Create subtitles for video editors, import into note apps, or share formatted documents.
BUILT FOR PRODUCTIVITY
- Clickable timestamps to navigate long recordings
- Search within transcripts instantly
- Edit and refine transcripts in-app
- All transcripts saved locally with SwiftData
PRIVACY FIRST
API keys stored securely in macOS Keychain. Use local models for complete privacy — transcription, translation, and summarization all happen on your Mac.
LOCAL MODELS
- OpenAI Whisper: tiny, base, small, large-v3, large-v3-turbo, distil-large-v3
- NVIDIA Parakeet: v2 (English), v3 (25 languages with diarization), TDT-CTC-110M
- Alibaba Qwen3 ASR
- Llama 3.2: Local AI for translation and summarization
Download Whisper Snapper and turn voice into text — fast, accurate, and private.
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- Live Transcriptions! - Record and transcribe in real time. Pause and resume recording sessions across multiple takes, all in one waveform timeline.
- 5 New Local Models - Cohere Transcribe (14 languages), Parakeet Japanese, Parakeet v3 INT4, SenseVoice, and an 83-language Nemotron Multilingual streaming model.
- Rebuilt Model Download System - Model downloads are more reliable, with fixed cache path bugs, automatic cleanup of stale files, and better handling of interrupted downloads.
- Performance & Memory - Background transcript search, Cohere now routes directly to the Apple Neural Engine, and long audio files process one chunk at a time instead of all at once.
- Diarization Quality Improvements - Fixed speaker segment filtering bugs that caused spurious short segments in speaker timelines
- Many Bug Fixes
Version 1.7
The developer, Evan Harris, 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.
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