Dictanote Alternatives

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   WhatDidYouSay

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   Transcribe and translate audio locally on your Mac. Fast, private, one-time purchase.

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

   

   

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   Hello Transcribe

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   Hello Transcribe is a private and secure speech to text transcriber that uses OpenAI Whisper and Whisper.cpp.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Audio Transcription

   Origin

   • South Africa

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • iPhone
   • iPad

   • South Africa

   

   

   

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   Transcriboar

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   Transcriboar is a lightweight Android transcription app that uses the device’s built-in SpeechRecognizer to convert speech to text in real time.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Audio Transcription

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Android
   • Android Tablet

   • United States

   

   

   

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   Silkwave Voice

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   Record meetings, lectures, and podcasts. Transcribe in 10+ languages with on-device Apple models. Get ChatGPT-powered summaries via Apple Intelligence — no subscriptions.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Audio Transcription

   Origin

   • Armenia

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • Armenia

   

   

   

   +4

   

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   Viora

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   Voice AI assistant for Mac. Hold a shortcut, speak, and get clean text in any app. It can also edit text, answer questions about what is on screen, and run quick tasks by voice.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • United States

   

   

   

   +7

   

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   Ghost Pepper

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   Hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. 100% local, powered by WhisperKit and local LLM cleanup. Hold Control to record, release to transcribe and paste.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Audio Transcription

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

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    koedesk

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    koedesk is a cross-platform voice-to-text tool. Press and hold a key, speak naturally, and your words are typed straight into whatever app you're using — Claude, ChatGPT, Slack, Mail, your editor, anywhere you can type.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    

    

    

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    Thinkur

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    Dictation & Meeting recording MacOS app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Origin

    • United Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

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    Iris flow

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    Iris Flow is an open-source overlay dictation app for Apple Silicon Macs. Hold Left-Ctrl to speak, release, and the transcript is pasted at the cursor in Notes, Slack, browsers, editors, and other apps. There is no account and no hosted backend.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

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    Vibe Typer

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    Vibe Typer is a desktop voice-typing app. You hold a hotkey, talk, and clean text appears wherever your cursor already is. There is no window to copy out of and no per-app setup.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Audio Transcription

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • iPhone

    • United States

    

    

    

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    Cadence AI

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    Cadence is a native voice workspace. Because our AI model runs on-device, your voice never leaves your Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Audio Transcription

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

    

    

    +1

    

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    Bulbul

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    Bulbul is a free, open-source voice dictation app for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. Hold a hotkey (or tap the bubble on your phone), speak, and cleaned-up text appears in whatever app you're using — editor, browser, chat, terminal.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Origin

    • India

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android

    

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