Pines Voice
Dictation for the Mac that works offline in any app
Details
- External ID
- 1246092
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pines Voice
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Artificial Intelligence
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice dictation and control tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- offline voice-to-text for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 191 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #115 of 192 (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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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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