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v2md 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★29,310 GitHub starsMIT licenceAn offline, end-user speech-to-text application for recording and transcribing audio with a user interface.Open on GitHub ↗Zackriya-Solutions/meetily★28,947 GitHub starsMIT licenceA local meeting assistant app providing live transcription, speaker diarization, and AI summarization for meetings.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Polished mobile UX and deep platform integrations (Apple Watch, Action Button)
- Bundled offline/on-device transcription
- Unlimited transcription quotas and vendor-managed scaling
- Polish around shortcuts, accessibility, and app-store distribution
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches v2md, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.