Oulie
Fast, offline live captions & translation for your Mac
Details
- External ID
- 1249073
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Oulie
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
Description
Understand videos, calls, and lectures in another language without pausing or switching apps. Oulie brings live bilingual captions to your Mac in a customizable floating window. Built with GPUI for a fast, fluid experience, it captures audio from any app, your system, or microphone. Default Apple engines recognize and translate speech on-device, keeping your audio private. Works offline after language setup, with global shortcuts to stay in control. Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 26+.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai translation and localization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- offline live captioning and translation app for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It leverages native macOS system APIs (CoreAudio / ScreenCaptureKit for internal audio capture, Apple Speech framework or local Whisper) inside a lightweight desktop GUI shell.
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Attention rank: #90 of 158 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 301 days after the earliest competitor.
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