Whisperly

macOS 1.0.1 · Windows 0.2 preview

Hold a key. Speak. Paste.

Push-to-talk dictation for Mac and Windows. Press a key, talk, release — the transcript appears at your cursor in about 200 ms. Nothing leaves your machine.

Download for Mac Get the Windows preview

Free forever. Pro is a one-time $29. No subscription, no account.

Three steps. Two seconds.

One hotkey, one local server, one paste. The whole loop lives on your machine.

  1. 1

    You press the key.

    Pick any modifier — Right ⌘, Right ⌥, fn, or a custom hyper-key. Whisperly records while it’s down and stops the instant you release.

  2. 2

    Whisperly transcribes locally.

    Audio flows into a warm whisper.cpp server pinned to 127.0.0.1. Typical round-trip: ~200 ms.

  3. 3

    Text lands at your cursor.

    Smart formatting, custom dictionary, and voice commands run before the transcript is pasted — into whatever app you happen to be in.

Built for daily use.

Four ideas Whisperly is built around — the rest follows from these.

Local-first by design.

Audio, transcripts, and telemetry never leave your machine. The only outbound request is an optional once-a-day check for updates.

Warm and fast.

A persistent whisper.cpp server keeps your model in memory — each dictation finishes in ~200 ms instead of the second-and- a-half a cold start would cost.

Native to the platform.

Liquid Glass on macOS 26 with a clean fallback to system materials on 14 and 15. WPF + .NET 9 on Windows. SF Symbols and SF Pro throughout.

Yours to shape.

Pick a model from tiny to large-v3-turbo. Add words to the dictionary. Bind voice commands. Choose what gets formatted and what stays raw.

“The only network call Whisperly makes is a once-a-day check against GitHub for updates. Even that is optional.

— from the source code, not the marketing

Two ways to use it.

The free tier is fully functional. Pro adds the bigger models and the power-user surface.

Free

$0forever

Everything you need to dictate at your cursor.

  • Tiny, base, small whisper models
  • Push-to-talk hotkey with HUD
  • Local-only transcription
  • Transcription history + menu access
  • whisperly CLI
Get Whisperly
Pro

Pro

$29one-time

Everything above, plus the higher-end models and the power-user surface.

  • Medium & large-v3-turbo models
  • Custom dictionary (auto-corrections)
  • Voice commands (“new line”, “period”, …)
  • Spotlight-style history picker
  • Priority email support
Get Pro

Pricing is enforced inside the app. Buying Pro is a one-time unlock — no recurring charge, no account.

Download Whisperly.

Stable on Mac. Preview on Windows. Pick the right one and you’re dictating in under a minute.

For Mac

Whisperly 1.0.1 · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon

Download Whisperly.dmg
  1. Open the disk image and drag Whisperly into the Applications shortcut.
  2. Launch — onboarding walks through Microphone & Accessibility.
  3. Pick a model, choose your hotkey, start dictating.

Ad-hoc signed (no paid Developer ID yet). First launch will show a Gatekeeper warning — right-click → Open.

For Windows Preview

Whisperly 0.4.1 · Windows 10/11 · per-user install

Download WhisperlySetup.exe
  1. Run the installer — per-user, no UAC. Lands in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Whisperly.
  2. SmartScreen warns it’s unsigned — click More info → Run anyway.
  3. Walk through onboarding and pick a hotkey.

Confirmed working on real Windows hardware. Some surfaces (voice commands, dictionary) still catching up with Mac.