Lispr is a free voice dictation and translation app for Mac and Windows. Hold a key, speak, release. Your words land in whatever app your cursor is in. Speak in ~99 languages and switch mid-sentence. Hold your translation key as well, and the translation lands instead, in any of 32 languages. Median latency 346 ms. The mic is off until you hold the key, and we never store your audio. No account, no model download, free.
I'm Konstantin, co-founder of Codebridge, a software development company. Lispr's first user was me.
Why I built it
My workday is Claude Code sessions, client emails, Teams threads, and spec reviews: thousands of words typed across a dozen apps. Then I noticed that when I dictated instead of typing, I got several times more done. The effect was strongest with AI tools. When you talk to Claude or Cursor, you give whole paragraphs of context you'd never bother to type, and the answers get far better. Typing made me ration what I told the AI.
I wanted one tool that types wherever my cursor is: chat, email, code editor, browser. I tried what was on the market and kept hitting the same walls: multi-gigabyte model downloads, accounts, subscriptions, or latency that sent me back to the keyboard. We're a dev company, so we built our own.
The multilingual part is personal too. We're a Ukrainian company. Ukrainian inside the team, English with clients, and many of our people live abroad and run daily life in a third language. So translation got its own keys: you set two, and holding one along with the dictation key changes what happens when you let go. Release with just the dictation key and you get the transcript; release with a translation key held and the translation lands instead. When you drift between languages mid-sentence (we all do), Lispr follows. No setup, no mode switch.
What Lispr is
A free voice dictation and translation app for Mac and Windows. Hold the key, speak, release. Your words land in whatever app your cursor is in. Hold a translation key too, and on release the translation lands instead of the transcript.
Where it earns its keep:
Draft Slack messages and emails without touching the keyboard
Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor by voice, with far richer context than you'd type
Write in Notion, Docs, anywhere text goes
Speak in ~99 languages, switch mid-sentence
Teach it your vocabulary, so client names and jargon come out spelled right
Dictate in one language, release, and it lands in another of 32, via two configurable per-language keys. No other Mac dictation tool has this.
Speed and footprint
Median latency is 346 ms from key-release to text on screen, measured server-side on live traffic. The whole app is a 3.67 MB download, with no model file and no GPU requirement. It runs on macOS 11 and later, including Intel Macs, and on Windows.
Privacy, the specifics
Your microphone is off until you hold the key.
Audio streams to a hosted Whisper large-v3-turbo model for transcription. Our servers don't store it, and no transcript content is logged anywhere. The inference provider holds audio up to 30 days only for abuse review, then deletes it.
Nothing trains on your voice, transcripts, or translations unless you opt in, and the opt-in is double-gated.
No account. Download, grant mic permission, start talking.
Is there a catch?
No. Lispr is free and the free tier stays. Codebridge is a profitable consulting company, and Lispr's architecture pays per call, so infrastructure costs scale with usage, not with always-on GPU capacity. It costs us very little to keep free. If we ever add a paid tier, it will be for heavy or team-scale use, never for everyday dictation.
For the PH community
We're reading and answering every comment today. What gets named in this thread will shape what we build next: iOS and Android are already on the list, and the requests here move up the queue.
Which languages do you work in? We built this for multilingual days, and I'm curious how multilingual this community is.
Thanks to our early users in 29+ countries for finding the rough edges, and to @myroslav_budzanivskyi, our CTO, who took Lispr from first commit to a notarized public release in a single day, then shipped 67 releases in the three weeks after.
Konstantin
About Lispr on Product Hunt
“Hold a key, speak, and Lispr writes it anywhere”
Lispr launched on Product Hunt on July 9th, 2026 and earned 181 upvotes and 34 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. Lispr is a free voice dictation and translation app for Mac and Windows. Hold a key, speak, release. Your words land in whatever app your cursor is in. Speak in ~99 languages and switch mid-sentence. Hold your translation key as well, and the translation lands instead, in any of 32 languages. Median latency 346 ms. The mic is off until you hold the key, and we never store your audio. No account, no model download, free.
On the analytics side, Lispr competes within Mac, Productivity and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Lispr performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Lispr?
Lispr was hunted by Rohan Chaubey and Konstantin Karpushin. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Rohan Chaubey,
Konstantin Karpushin
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Konstantin, co-founder of Codebridge, a software development company. Lispr's first user was me.
Why I built it
My workday is Claude Code sessions, client emails, Teams threads, and spec reviews: thousands of words typed across a dozen apps. Then I noticed that when I dictated instead of typing, I got several times more done. The effect was strongest with AI tools. When you talk to Claude or Cursor, you give whole paragraphs of context you'd never bother to type, and the answers get far better. Typing made me ration what I told the AI.
I wanted one tool that types wherever my cursor is: chat, email, code editor, browser. I tried what was on the market and kept hitting the same walls: multi-gigabyte model downloads, accounts, subscriptions, or latency that sent me back to the keyboard. We're a dev company, so we built our own.
The multilingual part is personal too. We're a Ukrainian company. Ukrainian inside the team, English with clients, and many of our people live abroad and run daily life in a third language. So translation got its own keys: you set two, and holding one along with the dictation key changes what happens when you let go. Release with just the dictation key and you get the transcript; release with a translation key held and the translation lands instead. When you drift between languages mid-sentence (we all do), Lispr follows. No setup, no mode switch.
What Lispr is
A free voice dictation and translation app for Mac and Windows. Hold the key, speak, release. Your words land in whatever app your cursor is in. Hold a translation key too, and on release the translation lands instead of the transcript.
Where it earns its keep:
Draft Slack messages and emails without touching the keyboard
Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor by voice, with far richer context than you'd type
Write in Notion, Docs, anywhere text goes
Speak in ~99 languages, switch mid-sentence
Teach it your vocabulary, so client names and jargon come out spelled right
Dictate in one language, release, and it lands in another of 32, via two configurable per-language keys. No other Mac dictation tool has this.
Speed and footprint
Median latency is 346 ms from key-release to text on screen, measured server-side on live traffic. The whole app is a 3.67 MB download, with no model file and no GPU requirement. It runs on macOS 11 and later, including Intel Macs, and on Windows.
Privacy, the specifics
Your microphone is off until you hold the key.
Audio streams to a hosted Whisper large-v3-turbo model for transcription. Our servers don't store it, and no transcript content is logged anywhere. The inference provider holds audio up to 30 days only for abuse review, then deletes it.
Nothing trains on your voice, transcripts, or translations unless you opt in, and the opt-in is double-gated.
No account. Download, grant mic permission, start talking.
Is there a catch?
No. Lispr is free and the free tier stays. Codebridge is a profitable consulting company, and Lispr's architecture pays per call, so infrastructure costs scale with usage, not with always-on GPU capacity. It costs us very little to keep free. If we ever add a paid tier, it will be for heavy or team-scale use, never for everyday dictation.
For the PH community
We're reading and answering every comment today. What gets named in this thread will shape what we build next: iOS and Android are already on the list, and the requests here move up the queue.
What I'd love from you
Download it and tell me where it trips: lispr.ai
Which languages do you work in? We built this for multilingual days, and I'm curious how multilingual this community is.
Thanks to our early users in 29+ countries for finding the rough edges, and to @myroslav_budzanivskyi, our CTO, who took Lispr from first commit to a notarized public release in a single day, then shipped 67 releases in the three weeks after.
Konstantin