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On-device dictation, no-bot meeting transcripts, and a second brain that writes itself — one Mac app, zero telemetry.
MetaWhisp is a privacy-first AI assistant for Mac that combines system-wide voice dictation, meeting recording with per-speaker transcripts, and a searchable second brain of memories, tasks, and goals. Dictation runs on-device and works offline; smart features run on a local LLM, your own OpenAI or Groq key, or MetaWhisp Pro ($7.77/month). The free version is fully functional.
Each tile is the real thing and the real gate. A green chip means free, an amber chip means it needs AI access — and it says so on the tile.
Hold Right ⌘, talk, release — text lands at your cursor in any app via auto-paste. The global hotkey works everywhere, with instant translation, 99 languages, and processing modes on the on-device model. Typed a sentence on the wrong layout? The layout fix rewrites it word by word.
Calls are transcribed on your Mac — no bot joins, your mic and everyone else on separate tracks. Recording stays off by default; here’s the bot-free how-to.
Tasks, memories, and goals extract themselves from what you say, split into mine and waiting-on. Weekly Insights, the automatic weekly review, is Pro-only.
Ask about anything you’ve said; it answers from your transcripts and can act — every action has Undo. Runs on your OpenAI/Groq key or Pro; the local LLM can’t drive it.
Screen Context OCRs the active window on-device, Rewind gives you a timeline to scrub and filter by app, date and exact text, and Files indexes local folders. Ask MetaChat in your own words and it searches that history by meaning. On top of them the Screen Agent stays quiet, cites what it read, and keeps held-back comments in an inbox. All of it ships off.
Your second brain, everywhere else: two-way Obsidian sync, an MCP server for Claude Desktop and Cursor, Calendar matching, and Apple Notes read as context — on every plan.
Transcription runs on-device with Whisper and works with Wi-Fi off; API keys live only in the macOS Keychain, and every capture feature ships off by default. The one honest caveat: your own key or Pro sends processed content to that provider — the fully-offline path is the local model plus the local LLM (privacy page).
Free is not a trial — with the downloaded local model or your own OpenAI or Groq key, the free version is fully working. Pro is for zero setup: cloud processing without a key, $7.77/month or $30/year.
| Capability | Free (local model or your key) | Pro — $7.77/mo or $30/yr |
|---|---|---|
| Dictation in any app | Yes — on-device, offline | Yes — cloud, zero setup |
| Meeting transcription | Yes — local or your key | Yes — no key needed |
| Recap, Copilot, task extraction | With local LLM or your key | Included |
| Second brain (Memories, Tasks, Goals, Daily Summary) | With local LLM or your key | Included |
| MetaChat | Your key only — not on local LLM | Included |
| Weekly Insights | Not available | Included (cloud) |
| Obsidian sync, MCP, Calendar, Apple Notes | Free | Free |
| Setup required | Download model or paste a key | None |
Full details on the pricing page.
MetaWhisp is a privacy-first AI assistant for Mac that combines system-wide voice dictation, meeting recording with per-speaker transcripts, and a searchable second brain of memories, tasks, and goals. Dictation runs on-device and works offline; smart features run on a local LLM, your own OpenAI or Groq key, or MetaWhisp Pro ($7.77/month). The free version is fully functional.
Yes. The free version is fully functional: download the local Whisper model and dictation plus meeting transcription run on-device, offline, with no account. Recap and the second brain work free with a local LLM or your own OpenAI or Groq API key; MetaChat needs your own key or Pro — the local LLM can't run it. Pro ($7.77/month or $30/year) runs everything in the cloud with zero setup and adds Weekly Insights.
No. MetaWhisp auto-detects when a call starts in Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, FaceTime, Webex, Slack huddles, Discord, or a browser tab, but recording and the live Copilot are off by default. Nothing is captured until you turn them on.
MetaWhisp records your microphone and the other participants as separate audio tracks and merges them into a per-speaker, timestamped transcript. This is track separation, not voice-print diarization — your side and their side are cleanly split, but remote participants share one track. The meeting transcription page explains the difference in detail.
No. MetaChat — the built-in chat that answers from your notes, tasks, and transcripts and can execute actions like closing a task — requires your own OpenAI or Groq API key, or MetaWhisp Pro. The optional local LLM is too weak for reliable tool-calling, so MetaChat does not run on it. Dictation and meeting transcription still work fully offline.
No. Weekly Insights — the automatic weekly review that surfaces recurring themes, people, and stuck loops from what you said — is Pro-only and processed in the cloud. The rest of the second brain (Memories, Tasks, Goals, Projects, Daily Summary) works free with a local LLM or your own API key.
99 languages with automatic detection. Mixed-language speech — for example Russian sentences with English product terms — stays as spoken instead of being forced into a single language. Transcription accuracy is 2.76% WER on LibriSpeech test-clean.
Download MetaWhisp, grab the local model, and everything on this page except Weekly Insights runs on your Mac — no account, no telemetry.
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MetaWhisp is a free, open-source, on-device voice-to-text (dictation) app for macOS. It uses Whisper large-v3-turbo running on Apple Neural Engine. Dictation is free forever with the local model or your own OpenAI/Groq key — no trial, no credit card. Optional Pro ($7.77/mo or $30/yr) adds cloud processing with zero setup.
Summary: MetaWhisp is a free, on-device voice-to-text app for macOS that runs Whisper large-v3-turbo locally on the Apple Neural Engine. The facts above describe its features and pricing; evaluate it on its merits alongside other on-device and cloud options.