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Free, open-source alternative to Superwhisper for macOS
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Ahmed Elhanafy

Yapper - Free, open-source alternative to Superwhisper for macOS

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Dictation app for macOS. Press a hotkey, talk, text appears at your cursor. Whisper runs locally on your Mac, so your audio never leaves your machine. If you want the output cleaned up, send it through OpenAI, Anthropic, or a local Ollama model. Seven built-in modes (plain transcription, email, message, notes, meeting, smart) or make your own. The AI modes read your clipboard, selected text, and what app you're in to format the output accordingly. Free. Open source. MIT license.

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Ahmed Elhanafy
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I built this because I wanted Superwhisper but didn't want to pay for it. Whisper is open source, the LLM APIs are pay-as-you-go, and Ollama is free. Didn't see a reason the app itself should cost money. It started as a weekend project with Claude Code and turned into something I use every day. It's actually become my main way of interacting with my development tools now, dictating instead of typing. Happy to answer questions about the implementation. The whole thing is Swift/SwiftUI with whisper.cpp linked as a C library.