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Saidso

Private dictation for Mac. One-time, fully offline.

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Speak, and clean text appears wherever your cursor is. Saidso transcribes and tidies your words on your Mac: no account, no API keys, works with Wi-Fi off. The AI cleanup runs locally through Ollama. 30-day free trial, then €19 once for up to 3 Macs.

PH · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 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 feature
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Privacy

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Could you build this?

Yes Local dictation can be built by wrapping open-source speech models such as Whisper and a local LLM via Ollama, with a native Mac shell for system-wide text insertion.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 620 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #333 of 621 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 371 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.71
  • sayso · github · 2026-10-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • VoiceNoodler · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • Murmur · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • WhisperJot · ph · 2026-10-06 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • WhisperWrite · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • EasySay · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • Sayburst · ph · 2026-10-06 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.62

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