Openbroca
Lightweight AI dictation for Mac that sounds like you
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Openbroca is a native Swift AI dictation app for Mac, with a ~6.5 MB download. Press a shortcut, speak naturally, and get clean text right where you're typing. It removes fillers and repetition while keeping your meaning and tone, with no prompt tweaking. Includes a personal dictionary that learns from corrections, Typeless dictionary import, and translation into 28 languages. All features are free to try.
PH · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 82 upvotes (top 2%) · 1 view
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
- Artificial Intelligence
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 224 launches in voice dictation software →
Could you build this?
Yes A native Mac dictation app is audio capture, a hotkey, a speech-to-text call (on-device Whisper or a cloud API), and an LLM cleanup pass, all of which a developer with AI help can assemble in weeks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 399 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #20 of 400 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
- inlaut · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Parroting · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Desi Dictation · ph · 2026-10-31 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Open Flow · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- WalkAITalkie · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Lowspeak · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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