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noScribe vs Whishper: catalog facts
noScribe	Whishper
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Web, Self-hosted
Transcription and speaker diarisation run locally, so interview recordings and other sensitive audio never get uploaded…	Built-in subtitle editor with CPS warnings Transcribes from uploads or yt-dlp URLs
Local transcription is slow without a capable GPU, and the output still needs a human pass before it…	Current version receives no new releases while a rewrite is in progress No user authentication yet
Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: AGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026

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