Audio and podcasting
Superwhisper alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
cjpais/Handy★28,927 GitHub starsMIT licenceOffline, extensible desktop speech-to-text app that captures microphone input and transcribes locally.Open on GitHub ↗Zackriya-Solutions/meetily★28,413 GitHub starsMIT licenceLocal AI meeting assistant providing live transcription, speaker diarization, and meeting summarization.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Enterprise features (SOC 2, centralized billing, model access control)
- Polished cross-platform native UX and iOS native app
- Built-in model catalog and managed unlimited cloud model usage
- Priority support and volume/enterprise discounts
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Superwhisper, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.