Observed arrival · 2026-08-28

Whisper Freely Keeps Dictation on Your Mac

whisprfreely.com Observed source

Editorial interest 79/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A free macOS menu-bar app that turns speech into text locally, with no account, cloud upload, or network call while dictating.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-28 issue.

Field notes

The app uses a menu-bar workflow rather than a dedicated writing window: double-tap Fn to open the microphone, speak for up to three minutes, then tap once to paste the result at the cursor. The page identifies Whisper large-v3-turbo running through Apple MLX, with a roughly 1.6 GB first-launch model download and an advertised zero-network-call dictation path. It also lists 99 languages and a typical turnaround of about two seconds.

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