Crisper Flow

Hold a hotkey. Speak. Clean text lands at your cursor — in any Mac app.

Install on macOS View source

Menu bar app · Local Whisper · Optional Groq / OpenAI · No accounts

Hold Record while the hotkey is down

Double-tap Hands-free session, tap again to stop

Esc Cancel — still reaches the app you’re in

Built to stay out of the way

One job: turn speech into paste-ready text, privately.

Local-first

Transcribe with whisper.cpp on-device. Cloud STT only if you put a key in .env.
LLM cleanup

Strip fillers, fix punctuation and casing — or skip it and stay fully offline.
Paste at cursor

Clipboard + ⌘V into whatever has focus. Keep the transcript or restore your clipboard.
No telemetry

No accounts, no phone-home. Your audio stays on your Mac unless you opt into an API.

Requires macOS 14+ and Homebrew whisper-cpp for local mode.

brew install whisper-cpp
git clone https://github.com/HassanAMZ/crisperflow.git
cd crisperflow
./scripts/build.sh --install
open -a "Crisper Flow"

Look for the Crisper C in the menu bar (top-right). Grant Microphone, Accessibility, and Input Monitoring — then hold fn to dictate.