Alternatives to Superwhisper
A voice dictation app that turns speech into text in any app, using offline or cloud recognition. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Superwhisper
A voice dictation app that turns speech into text in any app, using offline or cloud recognition.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Superwhisper.
Handy
Dictate into desktop text fields with local speech recognition.
Handy is free and MIT-licensed, dictating into desktop text fields with local recognition on Windows, macOS and Linux, but has no mobile apps, cloud options or custom AI modes.
Buzz
Turn speech recordings into text with a desktop transcription app.
Buzz is a free, MIT-licensed desktop transcription app with microphone transcription and subtitle export, focused on recordings rather than dictating into any app.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Superwhisper as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Wispr Flow
A voice dictation app that turns speech into cleaned-up text in any application.
Superwhisper also dictates into any app on desktop and mobile, and adds offline on-device speech recognition, more than 100 languages and custom AI modes for transcripts.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
MacWhisper
A Mac app that transcribes audio and video files to text on your own machine.
Whisper
An open-source speech recognition model from OpenAI for transcribing and translating audio on your own machine.
whisper.cpp
C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper for fast offline speech-to-text on your own hardware.
Vibe
Transcribe audio and video files on your own computer.
Meetily
Record and transcribe meetings with local AI processing.
