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Pines Voice

Dictation for the Mac that works offline in any app

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Pines Voice puts dictation in every Mac app. Hold or tap the right Option key, say the sentence, let go, and the words appear at your cursor in any app with a text field. It runs on local models by default, and it works offline. For cloud models you can use OpenAI, Groq or OpenRouter key and see the cost of each dictation beside the transcript. A dictionary spells names your way every time. Free for 3 days, then $5 a month or $29 a year.

PH · launched Sep 12, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 1 view

Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Artificial Intelligence

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Could you build this?

Partial Wrapping cloud transcription APIs is trivial, but building an offline macOS utility that intercepts global hotkeys, runs optimized on-device Whisper models, and injects text via Accessibility APIs requires native macOS systems work.

What it would actually take: The app needs to be written in Swift or Objective-C to hook macOS global events (CGEventTap) and leverage macOS Accessibility APIs (AXUIElement) to simulate keystrokes or set focused element values directly. For offline execution, it bundles an embedded Whisper implementation optimized for Apple Silicon via CoreML or whisper.cpp with Metal acceleration. Audio input streams must be captured via AVFoundation with low latency and minimal CPU overhead.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 498 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #426 of 499 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.

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