Open Flow
Free, open-source Mac dictation that runs locally
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Free, open-source dictation for Mac. Hold Option, speak, and release to paste. Transcription and optional cleanup run locally, with models you choose to fit your hardware. A custom dictionary helps with names, product names, and technical terms. Reply suggestions (alpha, off by default) use local models to suggest replies from conversation context in permitted apps. Pick a suggestion to paste; nothing is sent automatically. No account or subscription. App code is MIT-licensed.
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PH · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
Similar launches
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Yes It is a macOS push-to-talk dictation app that uses open local speech models such as Whisper, with a custom vocabulary and a paste action. Existing open-source building blocks cover most of it.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 300 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #102 of 301 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 350 days after the earliest competitor.
- Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- typevoice · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- SpeechFast · ph · 2026-10-18 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- WalkAITalkie · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- betterwispr · github · 2026-10-07 · 112 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- LocalBolo · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- NarraFlow · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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More details
- External ID
- 1288109
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- Flowen
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.77
- All tags
- Mac, Productivity, Open Source, GitHub
- AI summary
- local open-source dictation app for mac
- Manually corrected
- No