VoxKey
Free, offline dictation for your Mac
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Hold a key, speak, and keep writing. VoxKey is a small, native Mac app that turns speech into text using local Whisper models. No account, subscription, or saved recordings. Includes custom vocabulary and English or multilingual models, including Spanish. Free and open source. Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 26+. Download a model once, then dictate offline.
PH · launched Sep 12, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Yes VoxKey uses readily available open-source libraries like whisper.cpp and CoreML bindings wrapped inside a native macOS menu bar app that captures audio and simulates keystrokes.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 801 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #186 of 802 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- VoxScribe · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- VoiceNoodler · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Murmur · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Babblekey · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Parroting · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- hushkey · github · 2026-10-31 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Voxprint · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
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