Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I built Solo because I got tired of every voice dictation tool sending my audio to someone's server. Whisper is incredible, but running it yourself felt too technical for most people. I wanted something that just works — press a hotkey, speak, get polished text — with zero cloud involved.
Under the hood, Solo runs two on-device models back to back:
- WhisperKit (Apple Neural Engine) transcribes your speech
- Apple Foundation Models rewrites the raw transcript into clean, polished text
Both run entirely on your Mac or iPhone. Your audio and text never leave your device.
A few things I'm proud of:
- Option+Space → speak → ⌘V to paste. That's the whole macOS workflow.
- The iOS keyboard extension lets you dictate into any app without switching away
- Lifetime purchase option
I'd love to hear what you think, and happy to answer any questions about how it works under the hood.
Omid Bicker