Qwen Scribe
local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon
Details
- External ID
- 49098260
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Qwen Scribe
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 97
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.910394265232975
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local transcription and dictation for apple silicon
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a local desktop wrapper or menu bar app for Apple Silicon running existing open-weight speech models (like Qwen audio models) via Apple MLX or whisper.cpp.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Better Voice, voice.baselinemakes.com, transcribe.cpp from Handy, Whisper/Parakeet models, Wispr Flow
Concerns raised: Not fully native macOS, UI is local web page, Requires macOS 14+ for Qwen3-ASR via MLX, Apple Silicon only, Qwen3-ASR less well supported than Parakeet/Whisper in applications, HIPAA compliance for patient data handling
Feature requests: MacPorts ffmpeg support in Finder launcher, Consider mlx-swift instead of Python implementation, Real-time transcription performance optimization
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1236 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #128 of 1237 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 272 days after the earliest competitor.
- Kekoso · hn · 2026-09-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.82
- splash · github · 2026-09-18 · 610 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- FluidUse · github · 2026-09-21 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Speechmark · hn · 2026-06-19 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- YazSes · hn · 2026-09-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Jarvey · hn · 2026-03-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- keel · github · 2026-09-22 · 270 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Voxxy · hn · 2026-05-24 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.56
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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