Dictation app
WhisperShortcut
by Magnus Gödde
A Mac menu bar app for dictation and voice editing: press a shortcut, speak, and the text lands at the cursor or on the clipboard, with your own API keys or local Whisper.
- Mac
Key figures
Every figure about WhisperShortcut
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
- WhisperShortcut interaction logs2026-1090 days
- WhisperShortcut meeting transcripts2026-10Stored until you delete the files manually
- WhisperShortcut audio samples2026-10Automatically deleted after processing. Smart Improvement audio samples are capped and deleted at the start of the next Smart Improvement run or when interaction data is deleted.
Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI
- WhisperShortcut, AI rewrite2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- WhisperShortcut, cloud AI gets text2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- WhisperShortcut, custom glossary2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- WhisperShortcut, free plan2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- WhisperShortcut, no content servers2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- WhisperShortcut, pastes into apps2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- WhisperShortcut, speech on device2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- WhisperShortcut, voice editing2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- WhisperShortcut, works offline2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
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