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Free & Open Source

Private Speech Transcription for Macs

Transcribe any speech on your Mac completely privately.
Free - no cloud, accounts, or internet required.
Powered by Moonshine Voice.

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later

See It in Action

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Everything You Need to Capture Speech

A powerful, private note-taking experience built entirely on-device

Completely Private

Everything runs on-device. Your audio and transcripts never leave your Mac. No cloud, no accounts, no data collection.

Record Any Audio

Capture your microphone, system audio, Zoom meetings, podcasts, or any sound playing on your Mac.

Drag & Drop Files

Drag audio or video files directly into the document to transcribe them. Supports all major formats.

Edit While Transcribing

Fix mistakes and format text in real-time as the transcription runs. No need to wait for it to finish.

Synced Playback

Play back recorded audio and watch the text highlight in sync, making it easy to review and verify.

Flexible Export

Save your work as formatted text, WAV audio, or SRT caption files for use in any other application.

Powered by Moonshine Voice

Built on the same AI models that beat Whisper Large v3 in accuracy while running 5x faster on local hardware

6.65%
Word Error Rate
Lower than Whisper Large v3 (7.44%)
107ms
Latency on MacBook Pro
vs 11,286ms for Whisper Large v3
8+
Languages Supported
English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean & more

Open Source

Moonshine Note Taker is fully open source and free to use.

Moonshine Voice

Moonshine Note Taker is built on the Moonshine Voice framework, released under the MIT License. Inspect the code, contribute improvements, or build voice into your own apps.

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Download Moonshine Note Taker for free and start transcribing speech privately on your Mac.