I got frustrated with macOS transcription apps so I built my own

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Every local speech-to-text app I tried had the same problems. Files getting stuck mid-transcription with no way to retry. Retranscribing was either gated or buggy. No fallback when something fails - just a silent failure and your recording(I tend to talk for 5-10mins) is gone.So I built Whisnap. Hold a hotkey, talk, release - text just appears where your cursor is. Local Whisper with Metal on Apple Silicon, nothing leaves your machine if you don't want it.I built fallbacks on top of fallbacks. If a model can't process your audio, it tries a different one. You can always retranscribe a recording. Even the cloud mode (optional) has its own fallback chain: WebSocket streaming to batch upload to

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Website: whisnap.com/speech-to-text-mac