Types straight into the tools your projects already live in
Your job is words: action items, status updates, tickets, risk logs. You have ten minutes between meetings — enough to say the notes, never enough to type them. Hold ⌥Space, talk, and clean text lands in your doc, your tracker, your inbox. All on your Mac, none of it in a cloud.
Press and hold the pill, then let go. That is the whole app.
Types straight into the tools your projects already live in
By six o'clock you owe five sets of notes, three versions of the same status update, two tickets, and a decision record — and the details started fading the moment each meeting ended. Nobody calls it what it is: documentation debt, accruing interest every hour you can't get to a keyboard.
Enough time to say everything that just happened. Nowhere near enough to type it. So it waits — and waiting is where the details go to die.
The meeting produced decisions at the speed of conversation. Your write-up crawls out at a quarter of that, hours later, from memory.
You can already brief a colleague on that meeting in ninety seconds, flawlessly. OpenWhisper just makes that briefing land as text.
Here's the part nobody says out loud: the PM who documents fastest controls the narrative of the project. The first written version of a meeting becomes the official one. Right now that version ships at 40 words a minute — or after dinner, from a fading memory.
Write it while it's freshFive meetings, the same five meetings. The only difference is what happens in the thin white gaps between the blocks — and what's still owed when the last one ends.
Nothing failed. You just ran a project all day and got zero credit on paper, because paper costs 40 words a minute.
Same meetings, same judgment. The difference is the notes were written in the gaps, at the speed you think.
OpenWhisper isn't another tab to keep open or another place notes go to get lost. It's a hold-to-talk layer under everything you already use, from Jira to Gmail to that Notion doc with the risk log.
Cursor in a Jira ticket, a status doc, a Slack thread, an email draft. Hold ⌥Space and start talking. No app switch, no template to open first.
Core ML runs Whisper on the Apple Neural Engine in real time. What you say about the reorg, the vendor, the roadmap — never becomes a network request.
Capitalization, punctuation, spoken commands like “new line,” and a dictionary that already knows your codenames, stakeholders, and acronyms.
Release the key. The action items, the ticket, the update — already typed where you were about to type it, before the next meeting starts.
A proper set of meeting notes — summary, decisions, action items with owners — runs about 400 words. At 150 words a minute, that's under three minutes of talking. At 40 words a minute, it's ten minutes of typing: the entire gap, with nothing left for Slack, coffee, or thinking.
Summary, decisions, action items with owners and dates. The thing you owe after every single meeting.
Notes done inside the gap, with seven minutes left over. Every gap becomes a meeting closed for good.
The whole gap, gone — so it doesn't happen. The notes wait for tonight, and tonight they're written from memory.
One purchase, against every gap in every day of meetings you will ever run again.
Every PM writes the same status three times: once for the exec, once for the team, once for the client. Speaking makes re-versioning cheap — you just say it again for the next audience, and the voice modes keep the register right.
Typing three versions is why the client gets theirs a day late. Saying three versions takes about ninety seconds total.
This isn't a features list. It's the actual paper trail of a project — notes, tickets, updates, decisions — rebuilt around the fact that you can talk almost four times faster than you can type.
Status, risk, ask — spoken between meetings in the register you'd use across a table, landed in the draft before you reach the next room. The update that used to eat your evening now costs you a hallway.
Title, context, acceptance criteria — spoken straight into Jira, Linear, or Asana while the engineer who reported it is still in the room. No “I'll write it up later.” Later is where tickets go to lose their repro steps.
Speak the summary as you walk out. The first written version of the meeting is yours.
Eleven threads, full sentences, one gap. Nothing carried into the next meeting or home.
Codenames, stakeholder names, acronyms — taught once, spelled right in every doc forever.
Clean for the board deck and the client. Message for the team channel. Switch from the menu bar.
Everything you've dictated, kept as text on your Mac. “What did we agree in March?” is a search, not an argument.
Who decided what, and why — logged in the thirty seconds after it happened, not reconstructed in the re-litigation meeting.
“I used to owe five sets of notes by six o'clock. Now I speak each one in the gap after the meeting, while I still remember who said what. My status updates go out the same day, and suddenly I'm the person whose version of events everyone works from.”
“Agency life is the same update three ways: client, creative team, finance. I say it three times on the walk back from the meeting room and all three land in the right register. The client thinks we hired a project coordinator.”
“Half my day is site walks and vendor calls, nowhere near a desk. I dictate the daily log and the change-order notes from the truck before I pull out of the lot. Nothing about our subcontractor pricing touches anyone's cloud, which is exactly how the owner wants it.”
You dictate the sensitive middle of the company: reorgs before they're announced, personnel notes before the 1:1, vendor numbers mid-negotiation, roadmaps under embargo. Cloud dictation routes all of it through someone else's servers. OpenWhisper does the entire job on your hardware — the only network request it ever makes is downloading the model, once.
OpenWhisper runs Whisper through Core ML on the Apple Neural Engine, the chip your Mac already paid for. Nothing waits on a network, so the notes land whether you're at your desk, in a client's basement conference room, or on the flight home from the offsite.
Transcription runs on dedicated ML silicon, not your CPU, so the deck you're presenting and the forty tabs behind it stay responsive.
A hardware-aware recommendation on first run. After that, dictate on a plane, at a site with no signal, or on conference wifi that barely loads email.
A menu bar app that idles quietly and wakes when you hold the key. No dock icon, no daemon, nothing else to manage. You manage enough.
Whisper is trained on an enormous range of real speech, so common names, business vocabulary, and everyday acronyms come out right. Your world, though, has a codename called Kestrel, a stakeholder named Asha, and an acronym soup nobody outside the building could guess.
That's what the custom dictionary is for: teach it a codename, a person, or an acronym once, and it's spelled correctly in every note, ticket, and update from then on — across every app.
Yes — and in whatever your next company uses, too. OpenWhisper types into anything with a cursor: a ticket description field, a Notion page, a Slack thread, a Confluence doc, an email draft, a spreadsheet cell. There's no per-app integration to install, break, or wait on. If you can click into it and type, you can talk into it.
Yes. Speak it the way you'd say it to an engineer: the title, the context, then “acceptance criteria” and the list, using spoken commands like “new line” for the bullets. Clean, punctuated text lands in the ticket field, and thirty seconds of talking captures what four minutes of typing usually rounds down to “see thread.”
This is exactly why OpenWhisper is on-device. Audio and transcription never leave your Mac, audio is never stored, and there's no telemetry — so your 1:1 prep, the unannounced org change, and the number you're willing to pay the vendor exist in precisely one place: your machine.
There's no new vendor for your security team to review and no retention policy to take on faith. The review takes one sentence: the audio never leaves the laptop.
Different job. A bot records everyone in the room, lives in the cloud, and produces a transcript — a haystack someone still has to turn into notes, decisions, and tickets. Half your meetings won't allow one, and your client's legal team definitely won't.
OpenWhisper is your voice, on your machine, for the things you owe in writing: the summary as you see it, the action items you're accountable for, the update in your words. The transcript tells people what was said. Your notes tell them what it meant — and the person who writes those controls the narrative.
You already debrief out loud — to a colleague in the hallway, to yourself on the walk back to your desk. This just catches it. The first day feels strange, like switching keyboard layouts. Most people stop noticing within the trial, which is precisely why the trial is fourteen days and not seven.
macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon. OpenWhisper uses Core ML and the Apple Neural Engine, so an M-series chip is what makes the real-time, on-device experience possible. No account, no license server, no card for the trial.
Because there's no server bill to pass on to you. Cloud dictation charges monthly because every word you say costs them compute. OpenWhisper runs on hardware you already own, so it's priced like software used to be: $196.97 once, free updates, yours for good — one line item, one approval, no renewal to defend next budget cycle.
A missed detail in a status update, a decision nobody logged, a ticket without acceptance criteria — any one of them can cost a project a week and a PM their credibility. $196.97, once, buys the system that writes everything down while it's still true.
One-time purchase. Yours forever.
Fourteen-day, no-questions guarantee. Run it through a real week: the standups, the vendor call, the update that goes to three audiences. If you're still owing notes at 6pm, delete it. Nothing to cancel, nothing was ever charged.
Your job runs on words, and right now those words wait for a keyboard and an evening. The ten minutes between meetings is already enough to speak every note you owe — at 150 words a minute instead of 40, on your Mac instead of someone's cloud, while the details are still true. Fourteen days to prove it in your own calendar, no card, no account. $196.97 once if you keep it. That's the whole decision.
Try every feature free for two weeks, in the middle of real standups, real vendor calls, real status Fridays. No account to create, no card to enter, nothing phoning home while you decide. Keep it and it's $196.97, once. Delete it and it's gone.
Start free trial macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon recommended.