Turn your voice into text — local or cloud, your choice
Wave lets you invoke an AI model anywhere on macOS using just your voice. Hold a hotkey, speak, and release—your speech is transcribed, processed, and the result appears exactly where you need it. If you're typing, it replaces or inserts text. If you're reading, it shows a floating answer. Works across all apps with selected text as context.
Hey everyone 👋
Wave is a simple idea done properly: speech to text that doesn’t lock you in.
Most tools either:
* limit you to one model
* force cloud usage
* or stop at basic transcription
Wave focuses on doing two things well:
1. Speech → text (Whisper-based)
* Fast, accurate transcription
* Works locally for privacy
* Or via APIs if you want
2. AI mode
* Take your speech or selected text
* Refine, rewrite, or transform it
* Use the model you prefer
No subscriptions, no lock-in — just a flexible tool you can actually control.
What’s coming next:
* Context-aware processing
* Per-app behavior (different rules per workflow)
* More customization around how text is handled
Everything is free and open.
Would love to hear how you’d use it or what feels missing 🙌
About Wave on Product Hunt
“Turn your voice into text — local or cloud, your choice”
Wave launched on Product Hunt on June 7th, 2026 and earned 196 upvotes and 9 comments, earning #2 Product of the Day. Wave lets you invoke an AI model anywhere on macOS using just your voice. Hold a hotkey, speak, and release—your speech is transcribed, processed, and the result appears exactly where you need it. If you're typing, it replaces or inserts text. If you're reading, it shows a floating answer. Works across all apps with selected text as context.
On the analytics side, Wave competes within Productivity, GitHub and Audio — topics that collectively have 696.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Wave performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Wave?
Wave was hunted by Monawwar Abdullah. 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.
For a complete overview of Wave including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Monawwar Abdullah