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I'm tracking them all here:

https://opensource.builders/alternatives/superwhisper

Just added Ghost Pepper, and you can actually create a skill.md with the features you need to build your own



Handy with parakeet is pretty awesome by the way!


Agree. Slept on.

Wish they would do an ios version, but the creator already kind of dismissed it.


I just don't have the bandwidth to run another project, maintaining Handy is hard enough on it's own, especially for free!

I didn't just dismiss for no reason, I am a human! I have needs and I can't just sleeplessly stay in front of the computer putting out code. If I had more time I would, but alas.

Someone could easily vibe code an iOS version in a few hours. I could do the same but I do not have time to support it.


Thank you for your work, I highly appreciate it!


Thank you!!


Unlimited free Parakeet on iOS: VoiceInk

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voiceink-ai-dictation/id675143...

(I was searching the same as you before I found this last month)


fine. I will port it myself. Real-time, sub 100ms latency. Here

https://testflight.apple.com/join/myNP5XvU


i like handy a lot, so clean


Another one to add (1.5k stars on GitHub): https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex


Added Hex and its features


Please add wordbird as well: https://github.com/tillahoffmann/wordbird

It has all the usual features, plus you can add project specific vocabulary in your repo. It detects the working folder based on the active window, reads a WORDBIRD.md file in that folder and corrects terms accordingly.

(My friend Till built it)


Added Wordbird and its features


Very nice. Two great features I'd suggest highlighting in two apps, one app of which you have listed.

1: livestream transcript directly into the cursor in real time (just like native macOS dictation)

2: show realtime transcript live in an overlay (still has to paste when done, unlike #1, but can still read live while dictating)

1- localvoxtral, 2- FluidVoice (bumping it to 7 features on your list)


Thank you, I have added localvoxtral[0] and fixed FluidVoice

0. https://github.com/T0mSIlver/localvoxtral


Awesome, thanks. Now it looks like five features are table stakes and there's no need to filter for, for example, speech to text. So, it would be interesting to see the differentiation, the why would I choose which one.

I see promise trying to get a bit more into curating by showing the top one or two or three picks for a given standout feature.


You could add foxsay, a great one : https://github.com/skulkworks/foxsay


Added Foxsay and its features


Do any of the apps support taking actions as you talk without having to hit stop?

Like telling it to edit the text or remove a word.


So... a vibe slop index to keep track of all the vibe slop apps?

The cherry on top: it’s completely broken! Enable the Context Awareness filter, the list shrinks. Now enable the Auto-pasting filter, the list grows back.


I wouldn't call it completely broken; Pressing buttons still does something, it looks like an OR filter instead of an AND. It should be updated to be an AND filter as that's more intuitive.


If you squint, it looks kinda maybe superficially useful? But if you actually critically look at it, it makes no sense.

The categories are clearly LLM generated from the GhostPepper codebase, with vague low level descriptions and links to code. Most categories apply to every listed project.

The UI is the same tiny bit of LLM generated information displayed five different confusing ways. Like seriously, click on a project and you first see a bunch of haphazard feature cards, then a bunch of “feature ... active” rows. Looks fancy, but actually just noise. Textbook slop.

Better would be a simple awesome-style markdown page, with a feature matrix having categories and descriptions curated by a human that actually understands and cares about the domain.

Sorry if this is harsh, but passing off LLM output as “curation” is particularly insulting to me.


Welcome to modern software


hahah. It's slop all the way down.


The filters selection seems to return a union not an intersection which is a bit confusing, at least to me.


I’ve fixed this issue, please try it again when you get a chance





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