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LocalScribe. Transcribe locally on Mac.
Talk is text. Record conversations, transcribe on-device.
LocalScribe is a macOS app I built to capture conversations and turn them into text you keep. It records both sides (your mic and the other party), then transcribes and separates speakers on-device with Whisper or Parakeet. Apple silicon only: the models run locally and nothing leaves your Mac. Made for people who curate their own local knowledgebase. The transcript lands as plain text in a folder you pick. Telling people you're recording is your responsibility. No cloud. No subscription.
Thanks for taking a look. A few things I expect to come up:
- Privacy: nothing leaves your Mac. Recording, transcription and speaker separation all run on-device.
- Other options (Otter, Granola and the like): those are cloud services with access to transcripts. LocalScribe writes plain text files into a folder you own, so they can feed whatever local knowledgebase or notes tool you already use. Offline first, one-time payment instead of a subscription.
- Engines: Whisper (multilingual) or Parakeet (English), your pick per transcription. Speaker separation works best if you tell it how many people were talking.
Happy to go deep on any of these.
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“Talk is text. Record conversations, transcribe on-device.”
LocalScribe. Transcribe locally on Mac. was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #72 on the daily leaderboard. LocalScribe is a macOS app I built to capture conversations and turn them into text you keep. It records both sides (your mic and the other party), then transcribes and separates speakers on-device with Whisper or Parakeet. Apple silicon only: the models run locally and nothing leaves your Mac. Made for people who curate their own local knowledgebase. The transcript lands as plain text in a folder you pick. Telling people you're recording is your responsibility. No cloud. No subscription.
LocalScribe. Transcribe locally on Mac. was featured in Productivity (660.2k followers), Privacy (11.3k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 171.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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