Lesskeys
Dictato
superwhisper
MacWhisper
Wispr Flow
Otter.ai
Granola.so
Descript
RectifyData
Lesskeys is a native macOS app for recording, transcribing and keeping your conversations โ entirely on your own machine.
Record any call, meeting, lecture or interview: system audio, your microphone and the screen or a single window, captured together as one video file. Every recording becomes an accurate transcript with automatic speaker labels, and Lesskeys learns voices so the same person is recognised across different recordings.
The part that compounds is the archive. Instead of a folder of audio files nobody opens again, you get something searchable โ look inside what was actually said across every recording you own, filter by speaker, recording or date range, match an exact phrase. Click a result and the transcript opens at that line with the video in sync. Export to TXT, SRT or WebVTT.
It also does system-wide dictation: press one hotkey in any app, talk, and the text lands on your clipboard in any of 99 languages with automatic language detection. Plus a searchable clipboard manager, text replacements and per-app settings.
Nothing is uploaded. No cloud servers, no account, no subscription โ the speech models sit on your disk and run on the Apple Silicon GPU, so it works with the Wi-Fi switched off. One-time purchase.
Lesskeys
RectifyDataDictato - Fast, private dictation for Mac. Transcribe speech to text with 80ms latency using Whisper, Parakeet, or Apple engines. 100% on-device, no cloud. โฌ19.99 one-time. macOS 14+, Apple Silicon.
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