steno
Free, open-source dictation and meeting notes for macOS. Hold a key, speak, and your words appear at the cursor – transcribed locally with OpenAI Whisper.
Details
- External ID
- 1393256183
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- steno
- Website domain
- majores.store
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33858570330514987
- Tags
- apple-silicon, dictation, local-first, macos, meeting-notes, meeting-transcription, menubar-app, offline, privacy, speech-to-text, swift, swiftui, transcription, voice-typing, whisper, whisper-cpp
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice dictation and control tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local speech dictation and meeting notes app for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It wraps Whisper.cpp or CoreML Whisper inside a native macOS Swift/SwiftUI menu bar wrapper using global keyboard event monitors and accessibility APIs to insert text.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 246 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #153 of 247 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
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- TongueType · hn · 2026-05-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Speechmark · hn · 2026-06-19 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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