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CLUSTER BAR-MENU-OFFLINE · 13 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-01

Local macOS speech-to-text apps

This cluster consists of macOS menu bar apps that perform local, offline speech-to-text transcription and insert the resulting text into any application. The dated history is too thin to discern a timeline shape, as there are no dated entries before the index start. Traction leaders are mc.Rofone and talk-trace, each with 1 star, while livemandarin has 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 5OCT 2026: 7
AUG 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 12 unlabelled

Operator · 10 hobby · 1 indie · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 13 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01earshot9★2 days—indieMac menu bar app that live-transcribes audio from any selected app on-device and labels speakers.
  2. 02Cadenza-voice4★4 dayslivehobbymacOS menu bar app that converts speech to text at the cursor locally, supporting multiple offline recognition engines with optional cloud keys.
  3. 03local-transcriber1★todayliveMenu bar app that records and transcribes meetings, calls, and dictation on a Mac with speaker recognition, fully offline.
  4. 04mc.Rofone1★21 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that records call audio and transcribes it with a user-selected speech-to-text engine, keeping recordings private.
  5. 05voice1★10 days—hand-codedhobbyMac menu bar app that records spoken words and transcribes them to text, pasting the result into any active application.
  6. 06zeldaFlow3★1 molivemacOS menu bar app that provides fully local voice dictation, commands, and meeting notes with on-device privacy.
  7. 07talk-trace1★1 molivehobbyMac menu bar app that records system audio and microphone, then transcribes speech locally using offline AI.
  8. 08Clone-n-Speak0★14 days—hobbymacOS app that clones a voice and reads text aloud in 600+ languages, running entirely offline on Apple Silicon.
  9. 09speech-to-text0★8 days—hobbyMac menu bar app that converts spoken words into text in any application, using offline local transcription or cloud services with the user's own API keys.
  10. 10vaulto-note-mac0★10 dayslivehobbyMac menu bar app that converts spoken words into text in any application, running entirely offline with local speech recognition.
  11. 11VoiceYak0★10 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that transcribes speech locally and pastes the dictated text at the cursor in any application, fully offline.
  12. 12livemandarin0★19 days—hobbyMac menu bar app that translates Mandarin and English speech into live color-coded captions for calls, videos, and conversations, fully offline.
  13. 13canto0★21 days—hobbyMac menu-bar app that converts spoken speech into text at the cursor position in any application.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.