Native AI layer that remembers your words, meetings and screen, and turns them into tasks and routine automation.
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How it works
Your dictation, your calls and the window you work in. Transcription runs on your Mac by default.
Everything lands in one private memory that you can search and ask.
Promises become tasks, days become summaries, notes land in Obsidian.
Your words
Press Right ⌘ and talk the way you think. The text lands wherever your cursor is: Slack, Mail, your editor, a terminal.
Add your names and terms once. Every correction you make by hand is remembered.
Typed with the wrong keyboard layout? The word is fixed right in the field, no retyping.
Talk in any of 99 languages and get the text in one of 11.
Highlight any text, hold Right ⌥, and it is replaced with the translation.
Ask a question out loud and hear the answer, in a macOS voice or a natural one.
Just start talking. Pin one of 11 languages if you always use the same one.
Your meetings
It starts recording when your calendar says a meeting begins or a call window comes up, and nothing joins the call.
From your calendar, or when a call window comes to the front.
You and the other side on separate tracks, then the gist, decisions, action items and quotes.
Suggestions appear in a small floating card during the call.
Your screen
Writing a reply, a doc or a proposal? MetaWhisp brings up what you already know about it: the meeting where it came up, the promise you made, the task that is due.
Hold Right ⌘ and ask. It reads the window you have open, so you never paste anything into a chat.
It speaks up only when it has something worth saying, and you set how often.
Pick the apps where it helps. Apple Passwords, Keychain, 1Password and Bitwarden are never read.
Off until you turn it on
Remembers
Ask your meetings, notes and tasks in plain words, typed or spoken. Every answer shows where it came from.
Finds the moment even when you remember it differently.
Ask in your own words and it answers from your meetings, notes and tasks.
Your projects, people and preferences, collected as you work and used in every answer.
Tasks
Say you will do something and it becomes a task. Say it is done and it closes. No command, no app to switch to.
From your dictation, your calls and your screen.
Say “I asked Sam to send it” and it is tracked as something Sam owes you.
What got done, what is left, which subjects keep coming back and where the week went.
Routine automation
Notes land in Obsidian, your calendar starts the recordings, and developers can let Claude or Cursor search your memory through the open-source MCP server.
Privacy
Your day is personal. Here is exactly what stays on your Mac and what can leave it.
Don’t take our word for it: read the code.
Compare
| What it does | MetaWhisp | Dictation apps | Meeting notetakers | Voice agents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Types what you say into any app | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Takes meeting notes without a bot | Yes | Some | Some | No |
| Answers questions about the page you have open | Yes | No | No | Some |
| Remembers your day and answers questions about it | Yes | No | Meetings only | Some |
| Turns what you promise into tasks | Yes | No | Meetings only | Some |
Categories checked on vendor sites in September 2026: dictation apps such as Wispr Flow and Superwhisper, meeting notetakers such as Granola and Otter, voice agents such as mrmr, Phantom, VoiceFi and Cadence.
In detail: MetaWhisp vs Wispr Flowvs Superwhispervs Ottervs MacWhisper
Open source
Every line of MetaWhisp is on GitHub under the MIT license. Read it, build it, check what it does with your data.
35 releases since May 2026
Made by Andrew Dyuzhov, @hypersonq on X
Pricing
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$7.77 a month or $30 a year
Questions
Dictation types what you say. MetaWhisp also takes notes on your calls without a bot, remembers what was said and shown during your day, answers questions about it, and turns your promises into tasks.
No. MetaWhisp records on your Mac, from your microphone and the call’s sound. No bot joins, so nobody sees a recorder in the list of participants.
Transcription runs on your Mac by default, and your transcripts, notes, tasks and memory are stored on it. AI features send text only to the model you choose: your own key, a local model, or MetaWhisp Pro.
Dictation does: the speech model runs on your Mac. AI features work offline with a local model; with your own key or Pro they need a connection.
Dictation is free with no limits. Meetings, memory and tasks work on Free with your own AI key or a local model. Pro builds the AI in and adds screen hints, summaries of your day and week, search by meaning, natural voices and cloud transcription. Pro costs $7.77 a month or $30 a year.
Apple Silicon Macs, M1 or newer, with macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
99, detected automatically. You can pin one of 11 languages, and translate into any of 11.
Yes. The whole app is on GitHub under the MIT license.
Download the app, drag it to Applications and open it. It walks you through the permissions it needs and downloads the speech model on first launch.
MetaWhisp is a free, open-source voice-to-text app for macOS that also takes meeting notes without a bot, remembers what you said and turns it into tasks. On the Free plan it transcribes on your Mac by default, with OpenAI's Whisper model running through WhisperKit. Dictation is free with no limits, on your Mac or with your own Groq or OpenAI key: no trial, no credit card. Optional Pro ($7.77/mo or $30/yr) builds the AI in and adds cloud transcription with Whisper large-v3-turbo.
Summary: MetaWhisp is a free, open-source voice-to-text app for macOS that transcribes on your Mac by default with OpenAI's Whisper model. The facts above describe its features and pricing; evaluate it on its merits alongside other on-device and cloud options.
