Tools that work with Whisper

We're tracking 25 of these, and 24 are still live today. 1 we couldn't reach — we don't claim those are dead.

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Doesn't mention AI2 Free15 No sign-up3 Works offline16 Open source6 Data stays with you4 No subscription4

LeLuca

Live

Records and transcribes Mac meetings entirely on-device, then turns them into searchable AI notes, for people who don't want audio leaving their machine.

FreeWorks offlineData stays with youCan export my data

What to know▼

How it works: records mic+system audio, transcribes locally with Whisper, generates TL;DR/decisions/action items
What's different: 100% on-device transcription, optional bring-your-own ChatGPT/Claude for notes
Pricing: free on Mac App Store
Best for: Mac users who need private meeting notes

Watched for 3 days · last checked 2d ago

Vizhi

Live

Dashboard for developers to monitor and approve multiple Codex CLI sessions from a physical keypad or browser instead of switching terminal windows.

What to know▼

How it works: Six live sessions mapped to keypad buttons for one-press approvals, plus local voice prompts
Best for: Developers running several Codex CLI sessions in parallel

Watched for 3 days · last checked 3d ago

Voice Studio

Live

A self-hosted studio bundling several open-source TTS/voice engines and Whisper transcription as a local, offline alternative to ElevenLabs.

Works offlineOpen sourceSelf-hosted

What to know▼

How it works: A fully-offline local studio bundling multiple open-source TTS engines (VibeVoice, Kokoro, Chatterbox, OmniVoice, VoxCPM, Qwen3-TTS) plus Whisper voice-to-text.
What's different: Self-hosted, open-source alternative to ElevenLabs.

Watched for 7 days · last checked 1d ago

Jompter

Live

A Mac dictation app that turns your voice, screenshots, and screen recordings into a clean AI-ready Markdown prompt for Claude Code, Cursor, or ChatGPT, running fully offline via local Whisper.

Domain registered 2 months ago

Works offline

What to know▼

How it works: Local Whisper and open models on a Mac turn voice, screenshots, and screen recordings into a clean Markdown prompt.
Best for: Developers using Claude Code, Cursor, or ChatGPT who want offline, private dictation without per-token billing.

Watched for 6 days · last checked today

ScribeKey

Live

A free offline dictation tool that transcribes speech using local Whisper models and pastes the text anywhere, with no account or upload.

FreeWorks offline

What to know▼

How it works: Press a shortcut, speak, text is transcribed on-device and pasted
What's different: Offline Whisper transcription, no cloud upload
Pricing: Free for a limited time

Watched for 4 days · last checked 3d ago

AuraTranscribe

Live

A pay-per-minute audio transcription service using Whisper AI, for people who don't publish often enough to justify a monthly subscription.

Can export my data

What to know▼

How it works: Upload audio/video, get TXT/SRT/VTT exports; billed per minute transcribed rather than monthly.
Pricing: $0.10 per audio minute, 45 free minutes on signup, minutes never expire.
Best for: Occasional podcasters or video creators who transcribe infrequently.

Watched for 3 days · last checked 2d ago

Sapient

Live

A pure-Rust, on-device inference engine that runs small language models, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech fully offline on hardware from laptops to a Raspberry Pi.

Works offline

What to know▼

How it works: Runs chat, Whisper speech-to-text, and real-time text-to-speech fully on-device with one command to install and one line to run.
Watch out: No Python, Docker, or CUDA required.

Watched for 10 days · last checked 7d ago

Wavetype

Live

An audio/video transcription tool powered by Whisper that converts recordings to text with speaker recognition and translation across 98+ languages.

Can export my data

What to know▼

How it works: Uses OpenAI's Whisper model to transcribe audio/video, with speaker recognition, translation, and one-click export.
Best for: Anyone needing fast transcription or translation of audio/video in multiple languages.

Watched for 10 days · last checked 7d ago

ScreenMind

Live

A local, privacy-first app that uses one on-device Gemma model to capture, transcribe, search, and automate your screen and audio history.

Works offlineOpen sourceNo tracking

What to know▼

How it works: Uses one local Gemma model on-device for screen vision, audio transcription, chat, and reasoning; captures only when content changes and lets you search or chat with your screen history in plain English.
What's different: Compared against Microsoft Recall (needs $1000+ hardware) and Screenpipe (needs separate OCR + Whisper + external LLM) — this runs one local model for everything.
Pricing: MIT licensed, pip install.
Watch out: Requires a 4GB GPU to run.

Watched for 7 days · last checked today

LocalMode

Live

An open-source toolkit for building AI features — chat, RAG, speech, vision — that runs entirely in the browser with no servers and no data leaving the device. Built for developers.

Domain registered 7 months ago

Data stays with youOpen source

What to know▼

How it works: An open-source toolkit for running AI entirely in the browser: LLM chat across 76 models, RAG and vector search, Whisper and Kokoro speech, and vision, with no server or API key required. Runs on WebGPU with a WebAssembly fallback.
What's different: Data never leaves the device, and it ships a zero-dependency core plus a shadcn UI registry of 107 components and 36 installable blocks for building on top of it.
Pricing: Open source (MIT license).
Best for: Developers building browser-based AI features without standing up servers or managing API keys.

Watched for 11 days · last checked today

WavSnap

Live

Turns an audio clip into a captioned waveform video for social platforms entirely in-browser, with auto-captions from local Whisper AI, so audio never leaves the device.

FreeNo sign-upData stays with youCan export my data

What to know▼

How it works: In-browser reactive waveform visualizer plus Whisper-based auto-captions; exports MP4.
Pricing: Free, no signup, no watermark.
Best for: Podcasters making audiogram clips for Instagram/TikTok/YouTube.

Watched for 1 day · last checked today

EchoScribe

Live

Transcribes meetings, interviews, and recordings on-device using local Whisper models, with speaker labels and a local AI summarizer.

FreeWorks offlineCan export my data

What to know▼

How it works: Records or imports audio/video and transcribes it on-device using local Whisper models, with speaker labels, editing, export, and a local AI assistant for summaries and action items.
Pricing: Free to download, with optional Pro access.
Best for: Sensitive, privacy-conscious meeting or interview transcription.

Watched for 7 days · last checked 5d ago

ZapVox

Live

Transcribes WhatsApp Web voice messages to text in 99+ languages using a cloud AI cascade (Groq, Gemini, OpenAI) — audio is encrypted in transit but does leave your machine; 10 free transcriptions a day.

Domain registered 4 months ago

Free

What to know▼

How it works: Transcribes WhatsApp Web voice messages to text instantly inside WhatsApp Web, using an AI cascade of Groq Whisper, Gemini and OpenAI, with support for 99+ languages, translation, summarization and sentiment analysis.
What's different: Runs directly inside WhatsApp Web rather than a separate app, and lets users bring their own Groq key (BYOK) for unlimited use.
Pricing: 10 free transcriptions per day; BYOK Groq is unlimited; Pro is $3.99/month.
Best for: WhatsApp Web users who receive long voice messages and want text instead.
Watch out: Audio is encrypted in transit but is sent to cloud AI providers (Groq, Gemini, OpenAI) for transcription, not processed fully on-device.

Watched for 12 days · last checked 6d ago

Humla

Live

A Mac app that records and transcribes meetings entirely on-device, no bot joins the call. Free and open source, with optional cloud or self-hosted sync for teams.

FreeWorks offlineOpen sourceNo tracking

What to know▼

How it works: Records mic and call audio directly through macOS with no bot joining the meeting, then transcribes, labels speakers, and writes a summary that fuses your notes with the transcript. Runs fully on-device using Whisper on Apple Silicon, or with your own AI key.
What's different: No bot joins the call, and it can run entirely on-device with local SQLite storage and no telemetry.
Pricing: Free and MIT-licensed, with optional paid team sync via Humla Cloud or self-hosting.
Best for: Mac users who want private, on-device meeting transcription without a bot joining their calls.

Watched for 12 days · last checked 6d ago

convert.express

Live

Uses Whisper and Microsoft MAI to transcribe audio, video or links into text and subtitles, with 10 free minutes then a paid service, and auto-deletes uploads within 24 hours.

FreeNo subscriptionNo ads

What to know▼

How it works: Uses OpenAI Whisper and Microsoft MAI to turn audio, video, or links into text with speaker diarisation, summaries, and action lists, plus free tools to convert SRT/VTT subtitles, edit subtitle files, and shift timestamps.
What's different: Uploads and transcripts are auto-deleted after 24 hours, or instantly on request, by default.
Pricing: 10 free transcription minutes, then paid; no subscription, no ads.

Watched for 13 days · last checked 7d ago

YouTube Chapter Generator

Live

Runs speech and visual AI models locally to auto-generate YouTube chapter timestamps — free, no upload, no signup, built for YouTubers who don't want to type timestamps by hand.

FreeNo sign-upWorks offlineData stays with you

What to know▼

How it works: You upload a video and it uses Whisper for audio and Moment-DETR for visual analysis to detect natural chapter breaks, then outputs timestamps to paste into a YouTube description.
What's different: Cross-validates chapter breaks using both audio (Whisper) and visual detection, rather than relying on one signal; on a 68-minute test video it got 18 of 19 chapters correct.
Pricing: Free, no signup.
Best for: YouTubers who don't want to manually type out chapter timestamps.
Watch out: The 18/19 accuracy figure comes from a single 68-minute test video, not a broad benchmark.

Watched for 12 days · last checked 6d ago

Inktyper

Live

A Mac hold-to-talk voice typing tool that transcribes on-device for privacy.

Domain registered 4 months ago

FreeWorks offlineNo subscription

What to know▼

How it works: Hold Option, speak, release, and text appears at the cursor; SenseVoice transcription runs on-device for free, offline, private use, or bring your own OpenAI Whisper or SiliconFlow key for cloud accuracy.
What's different: Strong on mixed Chinese-English transcription.
Pricing: Free to start; one-time Pro purchase plus optional AI Plus.
Watch out: Requires macOS 14.6 or later.

Watched for 8 days · last checked 5d ago

Atlarix

Live

A desktop coding harness built specifically around open-weight models like DeepSeek, Qwen and Kimi, instead of bolting them onto a Claude or GPT-first interface as an afterthought.

FreeWorks offline

What to know▼

How it works: A desktop AI coding harness built around open-weight models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, MiniMax) instead of Claude/GPT, using a structural + lexical code-retrieval engine (Blueprint) that builds a real dependency graph of the codebase rather than embeddings or a vector DB.
What's different: Built specifically for open-weight models' weaker context discipline, instead of treating them as an afterthought behind a Claude/GPT-first interface.
Pricing: Free.
Best for: Developers who want to use open-weight models like DeepSeek, Qwen, or Kimi for coding with retrieval built for their limitations.
Watch out: Depends on local tools like Ollama and MCP — offline/no-cloud setup requires configuring those dependencies yourself.

Watched for 17 days · last checked 1d ago

ScribeForge

Live

Transcribes audio and video, including YouTube, to text locally using Whisper AI, with no cloud upload, no subscription, and a one-time payment. Good for unlimited, private transcription without ongoing fees.

Works offlinePay onceNo subscription

What to know▼

How it works: Transcribes audio and video, including YouTube videos, playlists and live microphone input, to text entirely on your computer using Whisper AI, in 100+ languages.
What's different: Runs fully offline with no cloud upload, unlimited usage and no subscription.
Pricing: One-time payment, no subscription.
Best for: People who want unlimited, private transcription without ongoing fees or uploading audio to a cloud service.

Watched for 17 days · last checked 1d ago

Typestream

Live

A developer API that handles the real-time audio streaming, WebSockets and voice-activity detection behind Whisper-grade dictation, so you don't have to build that plumbing yourself.

Domain registered 1 month ago

What to know▼

How it works: A developer API and UI toolkit that adds Whisper-grade voice dictation to a web app, handling real-time audio chunking, WebSockets, and voice activity detection so users can speak instead of type.
What's different: Provides plug-and-play UI components for React, Next.js, and Vanilla JS, plus pay-as-you-go pricing instead of a flat monthly developer fee.
Best for: Developers who want to add voice dictation to text-heavy forms without building the audio streaming infrastructure themselves.

Watched for 12 days · last checked 6d ago

WisprFree

Live

A voice-to-text app that transcribes on-device and optionally cleans up grammar with a user-chosen AI, positioned as a free alternative to Wispr Flow.

FreeWorks offlineOpen source

What to know▼

How it works: Transcribes speech on-device (Parakeet/Whisper/Cohere), then optionally uses a chosen AI (Gemini, OpenAI, OpenRouter or local Ollama) to remove filler words and fix grammar; API keys stay in the Keychain.
What's different: Positioned as a free alternative to Wispr Flow, fully offline if you skip the AI cleanup step.
Pricing: Free, open-source.
Best for: People wanting private voice-to-text across any app.

Watched for 2 days · last checked today

Super NotePilot

Live

On-device AI dictation and meeting notetaker for Mac and iOS that works offline without an account.

Domain registered 1 month ago

FreeNo sign-upWorks offlineNo subscription

What to know▼

How it works: Runs 100% on-device using Gemma and Whisper for push-to-talk dictation into any app, live meeting transcripts, AI rewriting, and asking questions across notes.
What's different: No cloud, no account, no subscription.
Pricing: Free for macOS and iOS.
Watch out: Windows and Android support are coming soon, not yet available.

Watched for 9 days · last checked 6d ago

FREE AI Auto Subtitle Caption Generator

Live

A free, open-source Windows app that auto-generates styled subtitles for your videos using offline Whisper or the cloud Groq API — aimed at YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Reels creators, not developers.

FreeWorks offlineOpen sourceCan export my data

What to know▼

How it works: A Windows desktop app that automatically transcribes videos into word-level subtitles using either offline OpenAI Whisper or the cloud-based Groq API, then burns captions into the video or exports as SRT/VTT.
What's different: Free and open-source, with styling presets built for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels formats.
Pricing: Free.
Best for: YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels creators who need styled captions on their videos.
Watch out: Windows-only desktop app; cloud transcription option (Groq) requires sending video data off-device, unlike the offline Whisper option.

Watched for 16 days · last checked 2d ago

NanoVoice

Live

A macOS dictation app that inserts transcribed speech into any app via a hotkey; free local transcription through Apple Speech, with paid higher-accuracy and AI formatting options.

FreeWorks offline

What to know▼

How it works: A macOS dictation app: press a hotkey, speak, and the transcribed text is inserted directly into whatever app is active. Optional AI templates can then reformat the transcript into meeting notes, action items, summaries or to-do lists.
What's different: Supports both free local transcription via Apple Speech and higher-accuracy transcription via OpenAI Whisper, letting users choose speed/privacy versus accuracy.
Pricing: Free local dictation through Apple Speech; higher-accuracy Whisper transcription and AI formatting are paid options.
Best for: macOS users who want to dictate notes, emails or meeting summaries directly into any app without breaking their workflow.

Watched for 17 days · last checked 10d ago

AIrType

AI system keyboard that transcribes speech into cleaned-up text across apps using Whisper and GPT editing.

Free

What to know▼

How it works: A smart system keyboard that transcribes speech with Whisper and cleans it up with GPT editing, removing filler words while preserving wording and tone.
Pricing: Free with your own API key, or subscribe.
Best for: Android and iOS users wanting cleaner speech-to-text everywhere they type.

Watched for 2 days · last checked today

Tools that work with Whisper — the short answers

Every number here comes from our own daily check — not from a vendor list.

Tools that work with Whisper — how many are there?: Tablif is tracking 25 of them. 24 answered our check today, and 1 we couldn't reach — we don't claim those are dead.
Which ones are still maintained?: Tablif knocks on every door once a day and records the answer. 24 of these 25 responded on the latest run, so that number is what "still here" means on this page — not a review score.
Are any of them free?: 14 of the live ones say so in their own words, and 3 let you start without making an account. Tablif records the claim the product makes; we don't verify pricing.
Any open-source options?: 6 of the live ones on Tablif mention being open source.
What's the newest one?: WavSnap — Tablif first saw it 2 days ago.
Did a person actually look at these?: 25 of them Tablif opened and read, then wrote a one-line summary in our own words instead of reusing the founder's tagline. The rest carry keyword labels we haven't confirmed by reading yet — and we say so rather than hiding it.