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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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