On-device. Private. Yours forever.

Speak naturally.
Whiskers types it for you.

Hold a hotkey, talk, release. Your words appear at your cursor — in any app, transcribed entirely on your Mac. No account, no subscription, no cloud. $23 once and it's yours.

100% on-device
Works in 200+ apps
< 3s setup
14-day guarantee
Whiskers
Listening...
Transcribing on-device via Apple Speech
Local by default
Zero accounts, zero cloud
Every app you use
Optional AI polish
Batch transcription built in
14-day money-back

You think at 150 wpm. You type at 40.

You lose half a thought before your fingers catch up.
Dictation tools want $10/mo and a cloud account for the privilege.
Live dictation, file transcription, AI cleanup — three separate apps, three bills.

Whiskers replaces all of them. One app. On your Mac. No subscription.

How it works

Hold. Speak. Release.

1

Hold your shortcut

Pick any key combo. A small HUD appears to confirm Whiskers is ready.

2

Just talk

Think out loud. Whiskers transcribes every word in real time, right on your Mac.

3

Let go. Text appears.

Pasted at your cursor — Slack, Notion, VS Code, Mail, anywhere you type.

Features

One app. No compromises.

Dictation, transcription, and AI cleanup — all running locally on your Mac.

Dictate into any app

Slack, Notion, VS Code, Mail, Chrome — wherever your cursor is. Hold a key, speak, and the text appears.

Batch-transcribe files

Drop audio or video files. Get searchable text or SRT subtitles in minutes, not hours.

Optional AI cleanup

Send text to OpenAI, Claude, or your own endpoint for polish. Bring your own API key. Entirely opt-in.

Custom vocabulary

Teach Whiskers the names, jargon, and acronyms only your team uses.

Searchable history

Every transcript saved locally. Search, copy, or export — nothing leaves your Mac.

Private by design

Audio never leaves your machine. AI only sees text you explicitly choose to send.

From real users

People who switched don't go back.

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I write 2,000-word product briefs weekly. Now I talk through them on my commute and paste the transcript into Notion when I sit down. Saves me two hours every Monday.

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Sarah C.Product Lead at a Series B startup

Tried Otter, Whisper, MacWhisper. Whiskers is the only one that pastes directly at my cursor. No switching apps, no cloud upload. I use it 30+ times a day.

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Marcus R.Staff Engineer

I batch-transcribe 4 podcast episodes a week. Whiskers replaced a $30/mo service and the SRT export is cleaner than what I was getting from Descript.

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Emily W.Podcast Host & Creator
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Pay once. Own it forever.

No subscription. No usage limits. No surprise charges.

Whiskers

One-time

Dictation, transcription, and AI cleanup — one purchase, no strings.

~$10/mo$23one-time

Less than 3 months of any subscription dictation tool — and you keep it forever.

  • On-device transcription (Apple Speech)
  • Works in every Mac app
  • Custom vocabulary & jargon
  • Searchable transcript history
  • Batch audio/video transcription
  • Optional AI enhancement (BYO key)

14-day money-back guarantee. No questions asked.

FAQ

Good questions. Straight answers.

Whiskers uses Apple's built-in speech recognition, which runs entirely on your Mac. No audio is ever sent to a server. It's fast, private, and works offline.

If it has a text cursor, Whiskers works with it. Slack, Notion, VS Code, Mail, Chrome, Safari, Pages, Bear — literally any Mac app.

Nope. Transcription is fully offline. You only need the internet if you opt into AI enhancement — and that's entirely your choice.

It sends your transcript text (not audio) to OpenAI, Claude, or your own endpoint for cleanup, grammar fixes, or reformatting. You bring your own API key, and it's completely optional.

The speech engine runs on your hardware. There's no server for us to maintain, so there's nothing to charge you for every month. Simple as that.

Email us within 14 days and we refund you. No form, no hoops, no questions.

macOS 13 Ventura or later. If you're running Sonoma or Sequoia, you're good.

Your keyboard is the bottleneck.

$23 once. On-device. No subscription. 14-day money-back guarantee.

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