Open source

Open-source voice dictation apps

Desktop apps that listen while you hold a key, turn what you said into text, and paste it where your cursor is. Every one here can run the speech model on your own machine, so the audio never leaves it.

ProjectReplacesOpennessStarsLast releaseSelf-host
Handy

A free, offline push-to-talk dictation app for macOS, Windows and Linux that runs Whisper or NVIDIA Parakeet on your own machine and pastes the text at your cursor, under MIT.

OSI
31,790
Aug 24, 2026
Yes
OpenWhispr

A dictation and meeting-notes app under MIT that runs Whisper or Parakeet locally or cloud models with your own key, detects Zoom, Teams and FaceTime calls, and labels speakers on device.

OSI
8,286
Sep 15, 2026
Yes
VoiceInk

A macOS dictation app under GPL-3.0 whose README names Superwhisper and Wispr Flow as the tools it replaces, with local models, per-app modes, a personal dictionary and an AI assistant mode.

OSI
6,435
Aug 27, 2026
Yes
Whispering

A speech-to-text app inside the Epicenter monorepo under AGPL-3.0 that records, transcribes with a provider you choose, cloud or local, optionally polishes the text, and pastes it at the cursor.

OSI
4,801
Dec 27, 2025
Yes

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