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I’m trying to settle on one dictation app for Mac and I’m mostly interested in local offline use.

The ones I keep seeing mentioned are MacWhisper, Voibe, BetterDictation, and Superwhisper. I don’t really care about AI summaries or rewriting my text into a different tone. I mainly want to press a shortcut, talk, and have decent text appear wherever my cursor is.

Privacy is the main reason I’m looking at offline apps, but I also don’t want something that feels slow or breaks constantly. Built-in Mac dictation is okay for short text but it’s quite inconsistent for longer thoughts.

I’m mainly interested in hearing from people who have used these daily and stuck with one of them.

Reliability matters more to me than extra features, especially for live dictation. I’m also trying to avoid paying for something where the best parts only make sense with cloud models or a bunch of AI rewriting features I won’t use.