Free OSS transcription app I made and found it's faster than wispr flow
Details
- External ID
- 48078497
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Free OSS transcription app I made and found it's faster than wispr flow
- Website domain
- mumbli.app
- Launched
- May 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3053311793214863
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
title doesn't let nuance, ofc it's not the app that's faster but the way you can use it with Groq inference for example.
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice dictation and control tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open source transcription app
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS wrapper that records microphone audio on a hotkey and posts the audio file to Groq's fast Whisper API endpoint, requiring only standard macOS APIs and HTTP requests.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Handy (open source STT), Hex (open source STT), Ghost Pepper (open source STT), OpenWhispr (open source STT), shadcn/ui (component library)
Concerns raised: Unclear value proposition vs existing open source alternatives, Limited differentiation from myriad of existing STT tools, Whether it justifies adoption over established solutions
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 40 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #33 of 41 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 185 days after the earliest competitor.
- FnScribe · hn · 2026-08-28 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- SpeechOS · hn · 2026-01-21 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Fast Transcriber · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- On-device meeting transcription for your Mac · hn · 2026-03-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Qlog · hn · 2026-03-04 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- MinaFlow · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Yap · hn · 2026-07-27 · 104 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- SpokenLog · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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