Oulie
Fast, offline live captions & translation for your Mac
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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+.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: real-time speech translation software · 86 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Artificial Intelligence
- OpenAI Day
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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.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 381 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #322 of 382 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Odin · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Hearby · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Tipword · ph · 2026-09-29 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- GPT Realtime Assistant · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Easy Caption Pro · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Private voice-to-text for macOS using Apple's SpeechAnalyzer · hn · 2026-01-04 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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