wisp
Voice dictation for macOS · 100% on-device

Hold a key.
Speak.
It types.

Wisp turns your voice into text in any app on your Mac — and transcribes and summarises your meetings. Everything runs on your machine. Nothing is uploaded.

Download for Mac — free See how it works
v0.1.1 · Apple Silicon · macOS 13+
~0.6 sfrom letting go of the key to text on screen
0 bytesof audio or text sent anywhere
Any appMail, Slack, your editor, the browser
How it works

Three steps. No windows to switch to.

  1. 01
    ⌥⇧D

    Hold the shortcut

    Wherever your cursor is. The shortcut is yours to change in Settings.

  2. 02

    Speak naturally

    A small pill shows Wisp is listening. Code terms, names and punctuation come through as you say them.

  3. 03

    Let go — it types

    Your words appear where you were typing. No copy-paste, no app to switch to.

Meeting mode

Every call, written down. Then summed up.

Wisp listens to your microphone and your Mac's audio at the same time, so Zoom, Meet and Teams calls are transcribed live — labelled “You” and “Participant”. One click turns the transcript into a summary and action items, using a small language model that also runs on your Mac.

  • Live transcript with speaker labels
  • Summary and action items in seconds
  • Searchable history, stored only on your Mac
Launch sync · 32 minRecording
Participant

The beta build is ready, but payments still fail on older Android phones.

You

Okay — let's fix that by Friday and move the launch to the fifteenth.

Action items
  • Fix the Android payment bug by Friday
  • Move the public launch to the 15th
Privacy

Your voice never leaves your Mac.

No account, no cloud, no API keys. Speech recognition (Whisper) and summaries run on your Mac's Neural Engine and GPU.

Stays on your Mac

  • Your recordings and dictations
  • Every transcript and summary
  • Meeting history and search

Optional, and anonymous

Anonymous usage counts — like “a dictation finished” — help improve Wisp. They never include audio, text or anything you type. Turn them off in Settings → Share anonymous usage.

Get Wisp for Mac

Free. Requires an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer) with macOS 13 or later.

Download .dmg v0.1.1 · 7 MB

Windows and Linux are planned.

First launch
  1. Open the .dmg and drag Wisp to Applications.
  2. macOS blocks the first launch — open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. Only once.
  3. Wisp downloads its models (about 3.5 GB) and walks you through Microphone and Accessibility permissions.