MetaWhisp

Hey DevHunt 👋 I'm Andy. I think three times faster than I can type, because of some adhd) For the last 2months I've used every voice-to-text app on the Mac — WisprFlow, SuperWhisper, all of them. Two things drove me insane: 1. They upload everything to the cloud. Every dictated word — work notes, half-thoughts, private ideas — lands on someone else's server🤮 That's not okay for me and my privacy. 2. They charge $15/month. I sat down and did the unit economics. Actual transcription compute costs ~$2-3 per heavy user per month, tops. The rest is marketing, VC runway, and your wallet. So I asked myself the obvious question: why I need to pay $15/month for a feature one person could build in two weeks? Then I built it. In two weeks. MetaWhisp runs on your Mac. Whisper large-v3-turbo on the Apple Neural Engine. No network calls during transcription — auditable. Your voice never leaves your device. No employees see or hear it. No logs. No training data. Ever. Open-source It's free. No trial, no credit card, no "upgrade to unlock basics." The core is free because the core costs me nothing once it ships. One hotkey (Right Option). Press. Talk. Text pastes into any app — Slack, VS Code, Notes, Claude prompts. That's the whole loop. 30+ languages with auto-detect. Learns your corrections. 7.5 MB binary. ~2% CPU at idle. Works in airplane mode after first download. Next up: iOS app, shipping in a few weeks. Same principles — local, free, honest. If you've been paying $15/month for something that should be free, try MetaWhisp. You can use MetaWhisp completely free with local models or with your API keys I have pro plan in MetaWhisp: 30$/year (just to pay for API keys, Claude and Apple Developer and this post) — 4 times cheaper than competitors And tell me what breaks — I read every comment 😘