
Whisper Transcription 4+
Voice, Speech, Audio Dictation
Good Snooze
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Quickly and easily transcribe audio files into text with state-of-the-art transcription technology Whisper. Whether you're recording a meeting, lecture, or other important audio, Whisper for Mac quickly and accurately transcribes your audio files into text.
*Features
- Easily record and transcribe audio files
- Just drag and drop audio files to get a transcription
- All transcription is done on your device, no data leaves your machine
- .srt & .vtt subtitles export
- Get accurate text transcriptions in seconds (~15x realtime)
- Supports Metal and GPU processing for ultra fast performance
- Search the entire transcript and highlight words
- Audio playback and syncing to transcripts
- Supports multiple languages (fastest model is English only)
- Copy the entire transcript or individual sections
- Reader Mode
- Edit and delete segments from the transcript
- Select transcription language (or use auto detect)
- Supported formats: mp3, wav, m4a, mp4, mov, ogg and opus
- Supports Tiny (English only), Small, Base, Medium, Large-V2, Large-V3 models
- Batch transcribe multiple files and export to multiple formats at the same time (srt, vtt etc)
- Export to Word, PDF or HTML websites
- Transcribe system audio (such as Zoom meetings and any other audio)
- Transcribe podcasts by adding audio files for each speaker. The transcript will be generated and split up per speaker..
Pro Unlock
Whisper Transcription is free and lets you transcribe audio with the Tiny and Base models. They're fast and very accurate, but for the best results you should consider upgrading to Pro to use the Tiny (English), Medium and Large models, for industry leading transcription quality. Depending on your usecase you might want to use the Large version. You can always upgrade to the Pro version later. Pro also lets you batch transcribe multiple files, record system audio, transcribe podcasts and more.
* Supported Languages
Whisper for Mac can transcribe audio in 100 different languages:
English, Chinese, German, Spanish, Russian, Korean, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish, Polish, Catalan, Dutch, Arabic, Swedish, Italian, Indonesian, Hindi, Finnish, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Greek, Malay, Czech, Romanian, Danish, Hungarian, Tamil, Norwegian, Thai, Urdu, Croatian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Latin, Maori, Malayalam, Welsh, Slovak, Telugu, Persian, Latvian, Bengali, Serbian, Azerbaijani, Slovenian, Kannada, Estonian, Macedonian, Breton, Basque, Icelandic, Armenian, Nepali, Mongolian, Bosnian, Kazakh, Albanian, Swahili, Galician, Marathi, Punjabi, Sinhala, Khmer, Shona, Yoruba, Somali, Afrikaans, Occitan, Georgian, Belarusian, Tajik, Sindhi, Gujarati, Amharic, Yiddish, Lao, Uzbek, Faroese, Haitian Creole, Pashto, Turkmen, Nynorsk, Maltese, Sanskrit, Luxembourgish, Myanmar, Tibetan, Tagalog, Malagasy, Assamese, Tatar, Hawaiian, Lingala, Hausa, Bashkir, Javanese, Sundanese.
Whisper was made by building on top of all the hard work from Georgi Gerganov, check out his Whisper implementation here: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
Subscriptions will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period and will be charged to your iTunes account. You can turn off auto-renew/manage subscriptions in your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Use & Privacy policy can https://impresskit.net/press-release/f5537c9f-c2c1-42d9-a870-6cecd28a8c31.
What’s New
Version 11.10
■ New
• Automatic Speaker Recognition can now be used with Deepgram and ElevenLabs cloud transcription. Local support coming very soon!
• Added support for OpenRouter AI services
• Added support for Deepgram Nova for cloud transcription
• Added support for ElevenLabs Scribe for cloud transcription
• Add support for ChatGPT 4.5
■ Improvements
• Improved the design and spacing in the pdf export
• Automatically select the newly created Find and Replace item in settings
• Settings loads faster the first time you open it
• Adding a new prompt in settings is now faster since the sheet will appear immediately
• Added a toggle to disable sending of anonymous telemetry data
• New notification when a transcription made with a Whisper C++ causes a lot of repetitions
• Fixed an issue where loading a WhisperKit model would crash with Fast loading enabled. If you get the message again, it should not happen afterwards.
• You can now move to the next found search result by hitting return
• Improved the design of search highlighting
Ratings and Reviews
Great App & Dev
The only reason I'm giving it 4 stars is to indicate it's not a fake review. As many or all of the 5 star reviews may be real, it's hard to tell these days. All 5 star reviews is sketchy.
The app works great, even allowing .caf files (iMessages voice messages), unlike some other clones of this app.
The only confusing thing about the app is the pricing. There is a subscription and one time purchase. But the subscription is only available in the Mac App Store version. You can get it from the dev's website as well (do that). It's not clear how the app pays for API calls to Whisper, and will be able to stay afloat into the future. Dev, please show these terms somewhere.
And one odd omission is the option to show "sentences" in the top button bar... you have to go into Settings to enable sentences.
Voice is the new peripheral
Mouse and keyboard are out - voice is in. The current version of Whisper Transcription is half voice transcriber, half LLM. That opens up many unique workflow capabilities such as: 1) record yourself babbling into a voice recorder, upload the audio file into W.T. and use the ChatGPT API to extract the key points and action items from your monologue (this is the BEST way to get organized at the start of your busy day); 2) record your Zoom/Teams/etc. meeting with permission and upload the video or audio file(s) into W.T., then use the ChatGPT API to create recap meeting notes and action items (gone are the times of missing key points because you dissociated for 15 mins) [note: being able to do this all on-device and securely would be the ultimate selling point]; 3) paste a video link and get the full transcription without having to sit through the video, then use the ChatGPT API to extract key points or a summary and decide if the video is worth watching through fully. Great work - huge fan - absolutely recommend. This is how we will all interact with computers from here on out.
Couldn't Be Better, 100%
I used a SONY ICDUX523 digital Micro Recorder, bought in 2013, to make a 43 second recording that was 62 words long, to test the Whisper App (the Medium Quality, English only version, which is free on the App Store). It was tested on a Mac Studio M1 Max. The recording was transferred to the Mac using the recorder’s built-in USB-A output (connected to the Mac with a USB-A to USB-C cable). After transferring the audio file to the Mac, the file was dropped onto the Whisper App window.
Whisper perfectly transcribed 100% of the words (but did skip several occurrences of “uh”, which is a bad habit I have). The words ranged in size from 1-13 characters each, & included 4 contractions & one letter-number combination & one ordinal number. Whisper couldn’t have done any better, & there was no need to send the audio file to Apple for the transcription, as required by other Apps. 5*.
App Privacy
The developer, Good Snooze, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Jordi Bruin
- Size
- 22.4 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Good Snooze 2025
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Year Subscription $29.99
- Lifetime $69.99
- Monthly Subscription $8.99
- Weekly Subscription $4.99
- Assistant Monthly $9.99
- Pro & Assistant Weekly $12.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.