macOS · Apple Silicon· FREE

Type withyour voice.Free yourfingers.

A free, offline voice-to-text menu bar app for macOS. Hold a key, speak, release — your words appear wherever your cursor is. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Download for Mac ↓GitHub →

Sat 9 May, 10:36 PM

lives in your menu bar

Not Wispr Flow
voice-to-text · macOS
voice-to-text$0.00
no cloud✓
no account✓
open source✓
runs on your mac✓
apple silicon✓
TOTAL$0.00
thank you ♡

See it in action.

Hold Control, speak, release. Your transcript types itself.

HOLD MODE

Ctrlhold → speak → release

Hold to record, release to transcribe. Quick and fluid.

TOGGLE MODE

Ctrl+Space→ speak → Ctrl

Hands-free. Start, then stop when done. Good for longer dictation.

♫

Listening to music? The app automatically pauses playback when you start recording and resumes after.
You can change this in config.py

What it does.

Offline by default.

Whisper runs on Apple Silicon's GPU via MLX. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Cloud-fast when you want.

Optional Groq key for sub-second cloud transcription.

Smart fallback.

Online when it can. Offline when your wifi blinks. Auto-detects.

AI text cleanup.

Plug in Gemini, GPT, Claude, or Groq Llama to polish what you said.

System-wide.

Works in any text field — Slack, terminal, Notion, code editor. Wherever your cursor is.

Yours to tweak.

Custom vocabulary, hotkeys, models, prompts. It's just Python in your home folder.

Installation steps

Three steps. Five minutes. One password prompt.

Download.

Hit the button. You'll get a ZIP from the GitHub repo.

Download ZIP →

Run the installer.

Right-click the unzipped not-wispr-flow folder → New Terminal at Folder, then paste:

./install.sh

Asks for your Mac password once. Takes 5–10 min on first run.

Grant permissions.

Open Not Wispr Flow from Spotlight. In System Settings → Privacy & Security, give it access to:

MicrophoneAccessibilityInput Monitoring

You only need to do this once.