inlaut
Free, open-source dictation that never leaves your Mac
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inlaut is a menu bar dictation app for the Mac. Hold a shortcut or the 🌐 key, speak, let go, and the text is pasted into whatever app you are in. Recognition runs entirely on your Mac, on the Neural Engine (NVIDIA Parakeet as Core ML), so it works offline and nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. It handles English, German and sentences that mix both. No account, no subscription. Free and open source (GPL-3.0). Needs Apple silicon and macOS 26.
PH · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
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
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Productivity
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 224 launches in voice dictation software →
Could you build this?
Yes A menu bar push-to-talk app that runs an open-source speech model locally and pastes text is buildable with Swift and existing Core ML model conversions.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 334 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #109 of 335 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
- Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Open Flow · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Openbroca · ph · 2026-10-18 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Pines Voice · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- EasySay · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Witness for Mac · ph · 2026-09-23 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Desi Dictation · ph · 2026-10-31 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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