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MacWhisper
Description
A Mac app for transcribing audio and video, built by Jordi Bruin. It uses local models, so files are transcribed on your computer. You drag and drop a file, or record from the microphone or from any app, and it also transcribes podcasts with speaker recognition, YouTube and online videos, and calls in Zoom, Teams, Webex, Skype and Discord without a bot. It supports more than 100 languages, can translate, offers real-time dictation, and exports to TXT, SRT, VTT, Markdown, PDF, HTML and DOCX.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Transcribes on your own Mac with local models, so files do not leave the computer
- A free version exists; Pro is a one-time license
- Exports subtitles in SRT and VTT
Cons
- Mac only
Key facts
- Free access
- Yes A free version exists; Pro is a one-time license
- Pricing
- Pricing on the official site →
- Developer
- Jordi Bruin
- Interface languages
- English
- Checked on
- Oct 14, 2026
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