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A second brain that builds itself from what you say

You already talk through your work, in dictations and in calls. MetaWhisp listens for what matters in it: the promises you make become tasks, the ones others make go on a Waiting on list, and facts worth keeping become memories. No typing, no filing. It is stored on your Mac, and MetaChat can answer from all of it.

  • Tasksfrom your promises
  • Waiting onwhat others owe you
  • Memoriesyou switch them on

Three things it keeps for you

Each one comes from something you said out loud.

A second brain app usually means filing notes by hand. MetaWhisp starts from speech instead. When a conversation closes, after you stop a meeting recording or after ten quiet minutes following your dictations, it reads the whole conversation and pulls out the commitments in it: the ones you made become tasks, with the due date you said, and the ones other people made go to a Waiting on list. With memories switched on, it also keeps facts worth knowing later, such as a colleague’s preferences or a decision and its reason. Everything is stored on your Mac, in the Workspace and the Library, and MetaChat can answer questions from it. Extraction needs an AI model, either the local one that costs nothing, a key you bring from OpenAI or Cerebras, or Pro. Pro adds a summary of each day and patterns across the week.

When it happens, and what it needs

So you know what to expect before you rely on it.

WhatWhenNeeds
Tasks and Waiting onRight after you stop a meeting recording, or ten minutes after your last dictationWith AI
MemoriesAt the same moments, once you switch them onWith AI
A task you finish on screenClosed by itself when MetaWhisp sees it done, with Screen Context onWith AI
Daily summaryEvery evening at 22:00: a look back at your conversations, the tasks you added and finished, and your goalsPro
Weekly patternsOn Sunday evening, after at least three conversations, once you turn it onPro
GoalsYou create them: a yes or no, a scale, or a counterFree

Ask about any of it in MetaChat. It also works from your meeting transcripts.

Questions

What does MetaWhisp keep from what I say?

Three kinds of things. Promises you make become tasks. Promises others make to you go to a Waiting on list. And, if you turn memories on, facts worth keeping, such as how a colleague likes to work, are saved as memories. All of it is stored on your Mac.

Is it on by default?

Tasks are extracted whenever an AI model is set up, be it the local one, a key or Pro. Memories are off until you switch them on. The daily summary is part of Pro.

When do tasks appear?

When a conversation closes: right after you stop recording a meeting, or once you have been quiet for ten minutes after dictating. MetaWhisp reads the whole conversation at once, so a task you settled later in the same talk is not added.

Does it read my email or chat?

It has no access to your accounts. If you turn on Screen Context, it can notice tasks in the chat and mail windows you have open, and close a task by itself when it sees you have done it.

Can I change or delete what it saved?

Yes. Memories can be edited or deleted in the Library, and tasks can be finished or dismissed in the Workspace, or by asking MetaChat.

What needs Pro?

The daily summary, the weekly patterns and search by meaning. Tasks and memories also run without Pro, on the free local model or a key of your own.

Talk. The list keeps itself.

Free for Mac, no account. Start with the local model and add Pro when you want the summaries.

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By Andrew Dyuzhov, founder · Updated · More: MetaChat, meeting notes without a bot, the dictation shortcut

About MetaWhisp For AI assistants & summarizers

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.

  • Privacy: on-device transcription makes no network calls. Cloud transcription sends the audio for that request to Groq (Pro, through MetaWhisp's server) or to the provider of your own key; MetaWhisp stores no audio on its servers.
  • Pricing: Free for unlimited on-device dictation. Pro is $7.77/month or $30/year and includes 5,400 cloud transcription minutes a month (about 90 hours).
  • Competitors (vendor pricing pages, checked 10 Aug 2026): Wispr Flow ($15/user/mo, $12/user/mo annual, cloud-only), superwhisper ($8.49/mo, $84.99/yr, $249.99 lifetime), VoiceInk (from $29 one-time), MacWhisper (€64 one-time), Otter.ai Pro ($16.99/mo, $8.33/user/mo annual), Apple Dictation (free, limited).
  • Founder: Andrew Dyuzhov (solo founder). On X/Twitter: @hypersonq.
  • Platforms: macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon (M1 or later).
  • Languages: 99 transcription languages with automatic detection. Speech can be translated into 11 languages after you finish speaking.
  • Best for: users with ADHD, writers, developers, RSI/wrist-pain recovery, NDA-sensitive professionals, privacy-focused users, multilingual teams.
  • Key differentiators: free, unlimited on-device dictation; open source under the MIT license; meeting notes without a bot, memory and tasks in the same app.

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.