hey everyone — i built Petal because i was tired of voice-to-text apps that only support Whisper or require a cloud subscription. i wanted something that runs fully on-device with real model choice. Petal sits in your menu bar and supports 6 models across 4 providers: Apple Speech (zero download, built-in), Whisper Large V3 Turbo + Tiny via WhisperKit, Qwen3 ASR via MLX Audio, and Voxtral Mini 3B via MLX. the Voxtral models have a Smart Mode that strips filler words and cleans up your speech into proper prose — all locally. compared to SuperWhisper and WhisperFlow, Petal gives you more model options beyond just Whisper variants, and it is completely free and open source (MIT). no account, no cloud, no subscription. push-to-talk or toggle mode, auto-pastes into whatever app you are using. macOS 14+, Apple Silicon only. would love feedback — especially on which models you find most useful for different tasks.

Petal

Free, open-source voice-to-text for Mac. Fully local.

Free, open-source voice-to-text for Mac. Fully local.