LocalScribe. Transcribe locally on Mac.
Talk is text. Record conversations, transcribe on-device.
Details
- External ID
- 1244100
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- LocalScribe. Transcribe locally on Mac.
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Privacy, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
Description
LocalScribe is a macOS app I built to capture conversations and turn them into text you keep. It records both sides (your mic and the other party), then transcribes and separates speakers on-device with Whisper or Parakeet. Apple silicon only: the models run locally and nothing leaves your Mac. Made for people who curate their own local knowledgebase. The transcript lands as plain text in a folder you pick. Telling people you're recording is your responsibility. No cloud. No subscription.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai voice dictation and transcription tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- transcription software for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a basic macOS UI is vibe-codeable, but reliable system-level audio capture (CoreAudio / ScreenCaptureKit dual-channel routing) and bundling local whisper/parakeet diarization with CoreML optimizations requires non-trivial native system programming.
What it would actually take: The app requires Swift/macOS native development utilizing ScreenCaptureKit or virtual CoreAudio taps to capture two distinct audio channels (system output and microphone) without feedback. For inference, it relies on whisper.cpp or MLX/CoreML running locally on Apple Silicon, accompanied by an on-device speaker diarization pipeline (e.g., PyAnnote CoreML port). The primary hurdle is achieving robust virtual audio loopback permissions and low-latency on-device diarization on macOS.
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Launched 298 days after the earliest competitor.
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