Superwhisper
Superwhisper turns speech into polished text for people who dictate across Mac, Windows, and iOS apps.
Superwhisper is an AI voice-to-text app for macOS, Windows, and iOS. It helps people dictate polished text into Slack, Gmail, Cursor, Notes, and other apps. Press a shortcut, talk, and get formatted text without copying and pasting.
Key Highlights
- Dictation in any app, with automatic paste
- Offline transcription plus cloud and local models
- Custom modes for tone, structure, and formatting
- Vocabulary memory for names, abbreviations, and specialist terms
- Meeting recording, automatic notes, file transcription, and push-to-talk
- 100+ languages and dialects, including translation to English
What Makes It Different
Superwhisper goes beyond basic speech-to-text by pairing transcription with AI modes. A mode can turn the same spoken idea into a casual chat reply, a formal email, a legal-style note, or a coding prompt. You can also choose language and voice models, including GPT, Claude, Llama, and Whisper Large.
It is built around app context. It can activate inside specific apps such as Telegram or WhatsApp, adapt to what is on screen in Super Mode, and paste the edited transcript where you are working.
Features & Capabilities
The workflow is fast: select an app, press a shortcut, speak, and let Superwhisper insert the result. It supports custom shortcuts, push-to-talk, saved vocabulary, predefined modes for voice, messages, and email, and custom prompt rules for repeated writing tasks.
For heavier work, Superwhisper can record and summarize meetings, transcribe uploaded audio and video files, translate speech to English, and support agentic coding workflows in Cursor, Claude Code, Amp, Codex, and similar tools. The iOS app keeps the same focus on tone, punctuation, and formatting away from the desktop.
User Ratings and Testimonials
The visible social proof is testimonial-led rather than rating-led. Superwhisper features testimonials from Andrej Karpathy, Pieter Levels, Andrew Wilkinson, and Guillermo Rauch, with praise focused on speed and coding workflows.
The clearest limitation is hardware-dependent offline performance. The FAQ says Intel Macs work best with cloud models, while offline models run best on Apple Silicon Macs.
Pricing & Value
- Free: $0, with voice-to-text in any app, meeting recording and transcription, 100+ languages, unlimited small AI models, custom prompt control, and email support
- Pro: $8.49/month, adding personal AI API keys, unlimited cloud and local AI models, English translation, audio and video file transcription, and priority support
- Enterprise: Custom pricing, adding SOC 2 Type II certification, centralized billing and authentication, model access control, enterprise hosted models, and volume discounts
The free plan is useful for everyday dictation, and new users can try Pro features before staying on the free tier or upgrading.
FAQs
Press a shortcut, speak, and Superwhisper transcribes, formats, and pastes the text into the app you are using.
It supports offline transcription, SOC 2 Type II, and enterprise model controls. Cloud use depends on the model you choose.
Yes. It has a free plan forever, plus a free trial of Pro features.
It adds custom modes, vocabulary, file transcription, meeting notes, and local or cloud models. Apple Dictation is simpler.
Yes. It is a Mac, Windows, and iOS dictation app with public pricing, customer testimonials, and SOC 2 Type II certification.
Apple Dictation is a free built-in alternative, but it lacks Superwhisper's custom modes, model choices, and file transcription.
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