Pipit
Provides instant, local voice-to-text transcription, searchable timeline for both dictated and clipboard text, fully private processing on macOS, adaptive learning for terminology, invisible activation, audio/video file transcription, and seamless pasting into apps.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- No registration required
- Works Offline
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Voice to Text
- Speech Recognition
- AI-Powered
- Speech to text
- Dictation
- Support for Hotkeys
- Voice dictation
Tags
- ai-dictation
- openrouter
- openrouter-api
Pipit News & Activities
Recent activities
- Maoholguin updated Pipit
- POX liked Pipit
- POX updated Pipit
- Milky reviewed Pipit
This is the fastest I've tried. Compared to Wisprflow, the processing is so fast, even with AI enhancement. And the fact that it's a bring your own key. I will easily save $10 a month at least.
- Milky updated Pipit
- Milky liked Pipit
- kingdomcome reviewed Pipit
This app is awesome! As a writer who's spent hundreds of hours dictating articles using many different dictation apps, this app stands out for being completely free and lightning fast. Definitely recommend this app.
POX added Pipit as alternative to Vibe Transcribe, FUTO Voice Input, Voxtral and Spokenly
Pipit information
Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
51 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
What is Pipit?
The best voice-to-text app for macOS. Lightning-fast speech recognition, 100% private, completely free. Top-rated dictation software with unified clipboard history. Perfect for developers, writers, and professionals.
Pipit runs quietly in the background. Just press a key to start.
- Press Option: Hold your hotkey to activate the listening overlay instantly.
- Speak Naturally: Pipit transcribes your voice in real-time using local AI.
- Paste Anywhere: Release the key to paste text directly into your active app.
Strong UX focus. Every action saves you fractions of a second.
- Unified Timeline: Clipboard and transcriptions in one searchable history. Find that API key or the note you dictated last week.
- Actually Invisible: Hold hotkey, speak, release. Text appears at your cursor. No windows, no app switching.
- Bring Your Own Key: Use your Open Router API key and pay pennies per month.
Raw transcription in, polished text out. Perfect for emails, messages, notes—whatever you're writing.
More features:
- Adaptive Dictionary: Pipit learns how you speak. Names, jargon, technical terms—it remembers and corrects them automatically.
- File Transcription: Drop any audio or video file. Get a full transcript in seconds—processed entirely on your Mac.
Comments and Reviews
This is the fastest I've tried. Compared to Wisprflow, the processing is so fast, even with AI enhancement. And the fact that it's a bring your own key. I will easily save $10 a month at least.
This app is awesome! As a writer who's spent hundreds of hours dictating articles using many different dictation apps, this app stands out for being completely free and lightning fast. Definitely recommend this app.