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EnviousWispr

Free, on-device AI dictation for macOS. Hold a hotkey, speak, paste polished text. No account, no cloud, no subscription.

Free, private, on-device voice dictation for macOS. Talk naturally, paste perfectly.

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  • Mac  Requires Apple Silicon (M1 or later) running macOS Sonoma 14 or newer. Intel Macs are not supported.
Hold the hotkey, speak, release. The compact overlay shows live audio levels while transcription runs on the Apple Neural Engine.
Choose your polish provider. Apple Intelligence and Ollama run fully on-device; OpenAI and Anthropic are opt-in cloud options. Default keeps everything local.
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Sub-second from speech to clipboard. Median end-to-end latency is 1.51 seconds across real users on Apple Silicon.
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  AI-Powered

Features

  1.  Dark Mode
  2.  No registration required
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  Works Offline
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Speech Transcription
  7.  Apple Silicon support
  8.  Speech to text
  9.  Dictation
  10.  Voice dictation
  11.  Speech Recognition
  12.  Automatic Transcript
  13.  Multiple languages
  14.  Voice Commands
  15.  Global hotkey
  16.  Local AI
  17.  Voice Notes
  18.  Push to talk
  19.  Voice to Text
  20.  Custom dictionaries

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  •  91 Stars
  •  7 Forks
  •  119 Open Issues
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Top Positive Comment
HealthAndWealth
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Love love love this app. I've tried basically all of the free offline macOS dictation apps (MacWhisper, Spokenly) and this one beats them to become my daily driver. The reason why is it uses the super fast NVIDIA Parakeet model paired with a custom-tuned local AI cleanup model that runs very fast but still does a good job. So the output is faster than Whisper models while being just as accurate with punctuation and proper nouns (something Parakeet struggles with when dictating). There are a few QOL features it could use, but it's already in a very good place.

Saurabh Vaish
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Free, Private, fast :D

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What is EnviousWispr?

EnviousWispr is a free macOS dictation app that runs entirely on your Mac. Hold a hotkey, speak, release. Polished text lands on your clipboard or pastes directly into whatever app has focus. Transcription uses on-device speech models (Parakeet for English, WhisperKit for multilingual) optimized for Apple Silicon's Neural Engine.

AI polish (filler removal, punctuation, light tone adjustment) turns raw speech into clean, finished text. It runs fully on-device via Apple Intelligence or Ollama, or via a cloud provider like OpenAI or Anthropic if you bring your own API key. Default is on-device. Your audio never leaves your Mac unless you explicitly choose a cloud polish provider.

No account, no signup, no subscription. Open source (GPLv3).

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