MacWhisper Description

MacWhisper is a Mac transcription and dictation app that helps users transcribe audio, video, meetings, podcasts, lectures, interviews, subtitles, voice memos, and private files. The app supports drag-and-drop transcription for common media formats and can record meetings from Zoom, Teams, Webex, Skype, Chime, Discord, and other online meeting tools. MacWhisper can also capture and transcribe audio from any app on a Mac, making it useful for videos, calls, recordings, and media workflows. The platform is built with privacy in mind, offering local AI models and offline processing for sensitive content. Users can generate accurate transcripts, recognize speakers, remove filler words, translate text, search transcripts, edit content, and export files in formats such as subtitles, text, Markdown, PDF, HTML, and DOCX. Batch transcription helps professionals process multiple files at once. MacWhisper Pro adds AI services, custom prompts, cloud and local model options, app-specific dictation prompts, automatic meeting detection, watched folders, workflow uploads, and CLI control. The app can connect to AI providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Azure, OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, and others. By combining transcription, meeting recording, dictation, privacy-focused local processing, AI summaries, exports, integrations, and workflow automation, MacWhisper helps users turn spoken content into useful text.

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Pricing Starts At:
€59 one-time payment
Free Version:
Yes

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API:
Yes, MacWhisper has an API
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MacWhisper
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
www.macwhisper.com

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