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WhisperJot
Voice dictation that never leaves your machine
Hold a hotkey, say the thing, and clean punctuated text lands wherever your cursor already is — email, editor, chat. No window to switch to, no paste step, no cleanup pass. The speech model runs on your own machine by default: zero outbound requests during a local dictation, and it keeps working with the Wi-Fi off. An optional cloud engine is one switch away. macOS, Windows and Linux (beta) on one account. Unlimited dictation, no meters. From $5/month, or $199 once for lifetime.
I look after WhisperJot's communications and I'm the one who hunted it, so I'll be your point of contact here all day. Worth saying up front: I'm not the engineer who built it. Where a question needs a precise technical answer, I'll get you the exact one rather than a close one.
WhisperJot exists because of a trade every dictation app makes without asking: to turn your voice into text, it uploads your voice.
For a grocery list, fine. For a patient note, a legal draft, a password read aloud, or an unreleased product name — not fine. And you can rotate a leaked password. You cannot rotate your voiceprint.
So WhisperJot runs the speech model on your own machine by default. Not as a Pro upsell, not as a setting buried three menus deep — as the default. Watch the network log during a local dictation and you'll see zero outbound requests. Turn the Wi-Fi off and it keeps working.
How it works: hold a hotkey, say the thing, let go. Clean punctuated text lands wherever your cursor already is — your email, your editor, your chat. Fillers removed, punctuation placed, your names and jargon spelled the way you expect. No window to switch to, no paste step, no tidy-up pass.
macOS, Windows and Linux on one account. The Linux build is worth calling out: no premium app in this category ships one. It's beta and we'll keep calling it beta, but it's real — a .deb, a tarball, and native arm64 builds.
Three things you'd find out anyway, so here they are first:
1. There's no free trial. The local engine downloads a speech model on first run, so a trial would mean shipping you a worse version or a download you didn't ask for. Instead there's a 30-second browser demo at whisperjot.com/demo — no signup — and a 14-day money-back guarantee. 2. That browser demo runs on Jot Cloud, the optional cloud engine, because a 500 MB model can't ship into a web page. The app you install does not work that way — it's local by default. Better said plainly than found later. 3. Apple Silicon only (no Intel Macs), Windows x64 only (no ARM64 yet), and there's no mobile app.
Pricing: $5/month local-only, $99/year for everything, or $199 once for lifetime — and the lifetime one includes a second lifetime license to give to someone else.
What we'd genuinely like feedback on: which app do you dictate into most, and where does it fall down? Per-app tone and vocabulary handling is what's being built next, and your answers beat our guesses.
I'm here all day.
About WhisperJot on Product Hunt
“Voice dictation that never leaves your machine”
WhisperJot was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #84 on the daily leaderboard. Hold a hotkey, say the thing, and clean punctuated text lands wherever your cursor already is — email, editor, chat. No window to switch to, no paste step, no cleanup pass. The speech model runs on your own machine by default: zero outbound requests during a local dictation, and it keeps working with the Wi-Fi off. An optional cloud engine is one switch away. macOS, Windows and Linux (beta) on one account. Unlimited dictation, no meters. From $5/month, or $199 once for lifetime.
On the analytics side, WhisperJot competes within Productivity, Privacy and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how WhisperJot performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted WhisperJot?
WhisperJot was hunted by Dharwin Panganiban Dela Cruz. 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.
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Dharwin Panganiban Dela Cruz
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I look after WhisperJot's communications and I'm the one who hunted it, so I'll be your point of contact here all day. Worth saying up front: I'm not the engineer who built it. Where a question needs a precise technical answer, I'll get you the exact one rather than a close one.
WhisperJot exists because of a trade every dictation app makes without asking: to turn your voice into text, it uploads your voice.
For a grocery list, fine. For a patient note, a legal draft, a password read aloud, or an unreleased product name — not fine. And you can rotate a leaked password. You cannot rotate your voiceprint.
So WhisperJot runs the speech model on your own machine by default. Not as a Pro upsell, not as a setting buried three menus deep — as the default. Watch the network log during a local dictation and you'll see zero outbound requests. Turn the Wi-Fi off and it keeps working.
How it works: hold a hotkey, say the thing, let go. Clean punctuated text lands wherever your cursor already is — your email, your editor, your chat. Fillers removed, punctuation placed, your names and jargon spelled the way you expect. No window to switch to, no paste step, no tidy-up pass.
macOS, Windows and Linux on one account. The Linux build is worth calling out: no premium app in this category ships one. It's beta and we'll keep calling it beta, but it's real — a .deb, a tarball, and native arm64 builds.
Three things you'd find out anyway, so here they are first:
1. There's no free trial. The local engine downloads a speech model on first run, so a trial would mean shipping you a worse version or a download you didn't ask for. Instead there's a 30-second browser demo at whisperjot.com/demo — no signup — and a 14-day money-back guarantee.
2. That browser demo runs on Jot Cloud, the optional cloud engine, because a 500 MB model can't ship into a web page. The app you install does not work that way — it's local by default. Better said plainly than found later.
3. Apple Silicon only (no Intel Macs), Windows x64 only (no ARM64 yet), and there's no mobile app.
Pricing: $5/month local-only, $99/year for everything, or $199 once for lifetime — and the lifetime one includes a second lifetime license to give to someone else.
What we'd genuinely like feedback on: which app do you dictate into most, and where does it fall down? Per-app tone and vocabulary handling is what's being built next, and your answers beat our guesses.
I'm here all day.