MacWhisper AlternativesAudio & Video Transcription Tools like MacWhisper

MacWhisper is described as 'Quickly and easily transcribe audio files into text with OpenAI's state-of-the-art transcription technology Whisper. Whether you're recording a meeting, lecture, or other important audio, MacWhisper quickly and accurately transcribes your audio files into text' and is a audio transcription tool in the video & movies category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MacWhisper for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Web-based, Windows, iPhone and iPad apps. The best MacWhisper alternative is Vibe Transcribe, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MacWhisper are Voxtral, Whisper, TalkNotes.tech and Spokenly.

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  1. Vibe Transcribe icon

    Vibe Transcribe

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    Vibe is an auto transcription service that utilizes local language learning models (LLMs) or artificial intelligence to provide transcriptions for a wide range of languages. The service prioritizes user privacy by offering fully offline transcription, ensuring that no data ever...

    121 Vibe Transcribe alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Comments about Vibe Transcribe as an Alternative to MacWhisper
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    Seems to do the trick a clean an neat way. It's a shame that MacOS security rings so many alarm bells, as it's downloaded from internet and not signed when installing and running.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Vibe Transcribe is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to MacWhisper.

    • Vibe Transcribe is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to MacWhisper.

    • Vibe Transcribe is Free and Open SourceMacWhisper is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Vibe Transcribe is Privacy focusedMacWhisper is not according to our users
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    Voxtral

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    Voxtral models are state-of-the-art speech understanding models, which are available in two sizes — a 24B variant for production-scale applications and a 3B variant for local and edge deployments. Both versions are released under the Apache 2.0 license.

    76 Voxtral alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Hugging Face
    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
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    • Voxtral is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to MacWhisper.

    • Voxtral is Freemium and Open SourceMacWhisper is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Whisper

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    Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multi-task model that can perform multilingual speech recognition as well as speech translation and language identification.

    126 Whisper alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Comments about Whisper as an Alternative to MacWhisper
    Matt
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    While MacWhisper is built around Whisper, it is a user-friendly GUI frontend to locally run various WhisperAI models on a Mac. This is just the core written in Python - not user-friendly

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    • Whisper is Freemium and Open SourceMacWhisper is Freemium and Proprietary
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    TalkNotes.tech

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    TalkNotes turns audio into structured notes, todos, flashcards, and transcripts using AI transcription in 100+ languages. Automatically capture lectures, meetings, or any speech into actionable text, ensuring tasks never get lost, with user-friendly accessibility for everyone.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • TalkNotes.tech is the most popular SaaS alternative to MacWhisper.

    • TalkNotes.tech is the most popular commercial alternative to MacWhisper.

    • TalkNotes.tech is Paid and ProprietaryMacWhisper is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Spokenly

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    Experience effortless voice-to-text on your Mac. Speak your thoughts, and let modern AI handle the typing—no hidden data collection, no distractions.

    68 Spokenly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
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    • Spokenly is the most popular iPhone alternative to MacWhisper.

    • Spokenly is Free and ProprietaryMacWhisper is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Spokenly is Privacy focusedMacWhisper is not according to our users
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    xcribe

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    Privacy-focused transcription tool for macOS. For free. No ads, no tracking, no data collection.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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    VoiceInk

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    Instantly converts spoken words to text using local AI for near-perfect accuracy and privacy, with real-time transcription, seamless macOS integration, user-supplied AI keys, multiple language support, and no cloud data upload required.

    63 VoiceInk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    Moonshine AI

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    Moonshine is a family of speech-to-text models optimized for fast and accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) on resource-constrained devices. It is well-suited to real-time, on-device applications like live transcription and voice command recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Python
    • Self-Hosted
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    TranscribeX

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    TranscribeX is a powerful macOS app that converts your audio and video into accurate transcripts, translates them into over 100 languages, and helps you summarize or edit with advanced AI tools. Built with OpenAI Whisper and Nvidia Parakeet models, TranscribeX delivers accuracy...

    55 TranscribeX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    OpenWispr

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    Voice-to-text dictation app with local Whisper models and OpenAI API. Privacy-first, cross-platform, global hotkey activated.

    20 OpenWispr alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    Sonix

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    This software translates audio and video into text in over 35 languages, offering an in-browser editor for seamless transcription management. With automated subtitles, language conversion, and media player sharing, it supports collaboration and assures secure data storage with Zoom and Adobe integration.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
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