Your voice, typed wherever your cursor is.

Whisper dictation that runs on your Mac or PC. Nothing is uploaded.

Also for Windows 10 and 11, or brew install --cask wisperkit

0:04

Can you review the pull request before lunch?

⌃ ⌥ D to start, again to stop

One shortcut, in every app.

Dictate anywhere

The text is pasted at the cursor and your clipboard comes back afterwards. Or have it typed key by key, clipboard untouched.

WisperKit general settings: insert automatically, never use the clipboard, restore clipboard, dictation language, sounds

Toggle or hold

Press once to start and once to stop, or hold the shortcut while you speak. Esc cancels.

Pick a model

large-v3-turbo stays warm in memory and turns a few seconds of speech into text in about one to three seconds.

WisperKit model settings: large-v3-turbo active, large-v3, small and base available to download

Guided setup

A welcome window asks for the microphone, the Accessibility permission and downloads the model once.

WisperKit permissions: microphone and accessibility status

Speak French. Get English.

Turn on Translate to English and speak in any language Whisper knows. Leave it off and the text stays in the language you spoke, detected automatically.

You sayOn fait le point demain à dix heures ?

WisperKit typesShall we catch up tomorrow at ten?

Your audio never leaves the machine.

Recorded in memory, transcribed on device, then discarded.
One network request, ever: the model download from Hugging Face.
No account, no analytics, no telemetry. Read the source.

Four Whisper models, one click apart.

Model	Size on Mac	Best for
`large-v3-turbo` default	1.6 GB	Accuracy and speed, balanced
`large-v3`	3 GB	Maximum accuracy, best translations
`small`	480 MB	Older or low-memory Macs
`base`	140 MB	Quick tests

On Windows the same models run through whisper.cpp, on the CPU or the GPU via Vulkan.

Free, open source, two minutes to set up.

macOS 15 on Apple Silicon, or Windows 10 (1809) and 11 on x64 or ARM64.

Homebrew

brew tap eldriic/tap
brew trust eldriic/tap
brew install --cask wisperkit

Mac download

Drag the app from the DMG into Applications. It is not notarized yet, so allow it once in Privacy and Security.

Get the DMG

Windows

Run the setup, no administrator rights needed. SmartScreen may ask once: More info, then Run anyway.

Get the installer