BetterWispr — Free, open-source dictation for Mac. It was shared on Show HN in 2026 and received 220 upvotes on Hacker News. Hold a shortcut, speak, and BetterWispr types clean text into any Mac app. Local speech models, a style for each app, meeting notes and insights. Free and open source, with no account required. Download for Apple Silicon Download for Intel Free · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon recommended No account Local speech models Meeting notes built in Typing 0.0 s 0 wpm Can we move the design review to Thursday at 3? Them Friday works if QA signs off Thursday. Action items QA sign off by Thursday Ship the export Friday Tell support today Meeting notes Notetaker transcribes your mic as Me and other apps as Them, next to your own notes. Personal Work Email Other hey are you around for dinner tonight? Copied if paste is blocked Types where you were The text lands in the app you were using. If paste is blocked, it is copied to your clipboard so nothing is lost. Use Original brings back exactly what you said, and history turns off whenever you like. All of it is counted from history on your Mac. Apache 2.0 Free and open source Apache 2.0 licensed. Read every line on GitHub, report an issue, or build it yourself with make dev. Clean text arrives in the app you were using, in the style you set for it. G GodelNumbering HN Just tried it out as I was looking for something that does this exact thing well (macbook). Read on Hacker News E Ed | supersetapp.com @edsonboldrini X I'm using this one and it's amazing Read on X A Adetola Solesi @adetola_solesi X ok so someone made a free, open source dictation app for Mac. Hold Option and Space, talk, let go, and it types into whatever app you're in. The speech models run on your Mac, unless you plug in an API yourself. I guess I assumed there were equally good models that were cheaper, and I suppose this is one of them.