Dictation app
HushType
by Groovy Lab LLC
A Mac menu bar app that turns speech into text with a Whisper model running locally and copies the result to the clipboard, ready to paste into any app.
- Mac
Speech engine it runs
- Whisper by OpenAIWhisper large-v3-turbo, English: 3.92%Whisper large-v3-turbo, No noise: 3.78%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 20 dB: 4.2%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 10 dB: 5.51%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 5 dB: 13.92%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 0 dB: 66.09%
Word error rates from our own tests on public recordings: English in a quiet room and with background talk. Lower is better.
Key figures
Every figure about HushType
Each figure is a row of a research dataset. Open it for the exact words of its source or the exact request it was read from.
How Long Voice Assistants Keep Your Recordings
- HushType, auto-delete 30 days2026-1030 days
- HushType, auto-delete 7 days2026-107 days
- HushType, auto-delete 90 days2026-1090 days
- HushType, history on device2026-10Your past transcriptions are stored locally using Apple's SwiftData framework. This data never leaves your device and is not accessible to us.
- HushType, keep history forever2026-10keep history forever
- HushType, no user data kept2026-10We do not collect, store, transmit, or sell any user data.
Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI
- HushType, free plan2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- HushType, no audio on servers2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- HushType, no model training2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- HushType, text not sent out2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- HushType, speech on device2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- HushType, any app2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- HushType, works offline2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
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