{"slug": "superwhisper", "name": "Superwhisper", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "", "recommenders": 2, "commenters": 9, "warners": 0, "score": 3.706, "rising": 0.67, "first": "2026-01-10", "latest": "2026-10-08", "why": "", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 7, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "", "icon": false, "domain": "superwhisper.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://superwhisper.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Superwhisper", "superwhisper"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 796967937, "item_id": 49810496, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810496", "by": "bloomfieldj", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Monologue and Superwhisper are my go-tos", "excerpt": "Monologue and Superwhisper are my go-tos: https://www.monologue.to/ https://superwhisper.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "voice dictation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?"}, {"id": 747873681, "item_id": 46742105, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46742105", "by": "woudsma", "date": "2026-01-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It works pretty well.", "excerpt": "I\u2019m using whisper with superwhisper on my mac. I\u2019ve assigned a key on my keyboard, when I press the key it starts listening and when I release it, the text gets copied to the current cursor location. It works pretty well.", "context": "", "use_case": "push-to-talk dictation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "desireco42", "context": "Author writing books", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253862", "date": "2026-05-23"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["dictation", "voice dictation", "speech-to-text", "push-to-talk dictation", "speech-to-text dictation", "voice dictation with context"], "compared": [{"slug": "wispr-flow", "name": "Wispr Flow", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "handy", "name": "Handy", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "parakeet", "name": "Parakeet", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "monologue", "name": "Monologue", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "typeless", "name": "Typeless", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "obsidian", "name": "Obsidian", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008427", "title": "Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809670", "title": "Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744715", "title": "Canto: A speech model built for the real world", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894752", "title": "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250144", "title": "It's time to talk about my writerdeck", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040375", "title": "Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 800162657, "item_id": 50010166, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010166", "by": "theturtletalks", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use parakeet with superwhisper", "excerpt": "Parakeet is the gold standard. With models like moonshine and koroko (TTS model), it\u2019s more about embedding the model in the application itself. If you\u2019re using Parakeet, embedding it in the application is not feasible. I use parakeet with superwhisper, and I\u2019m making another app that has SST and TTS built in, and I want to use my downloaded parakeet model, but it seems there\u2019s so many different implementations from ", "context": "", "use_case": "dictation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB"}, {"id": 796967937, "item_id": 49810496, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810496", "by": "bloomfieldj", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Monologue and Superwhisper are my go-tos", "excerpt": "Monologue and Superwhisper are my go-tos: https://www.monologue.to/ https://superwhisper.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "voice dictation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?"}, {"id": 795953954, "item_id": 49747122, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747122", "by": "nr378", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I switched from Superwhisper->WisprFlow->Spokenly->Fieldwork", "excerpt": "Is it actually better than Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-2? That generally seems like the best model right now and it's not included in their benchmarks. I switched from Superwhisper->WisprFlow->Spokenly->Fieldwork and found WisprFlow the least accurate of the 4.", "context": "", "use_case": "dictation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Canto: A speech model built for the real world"}, {"id": 782351857, "item_id": 48896991, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896991", "by": "mchusma", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I liked Superwhisper but switched to Willow", "excerpt": "I will plug Willow for mac recording. IMO it's basically to me a \"better than perfect transcription\" as it cleans things up and is almost instant. I liked Superwhisper but switched to Willow as it was a big difference. Its so good that I'm not sure that it's possible to get any better. Speech to text seems like basically a solved problem, if not now then definitely in 5 years. I don't know if any of these speech to t", "context": "", "use_case": "speech-to-text", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"}, {"id": 772061793, "item_id": 48253862, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253862", "by": "desireco42", "date": "2026-05-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "used Superwhispt before", "excerpt": "Look, it does look like overkill but I totally understand you and where you are coming from... I managed to publish my first book, second getting final review and third one is in editing... fully connected. AI came up with all the names for the characters, did a research on places and such. Huge help. I did check it all. For example a name AI claimed was French, totally was German and had to be replaced, but otherwis", "context": "Author writing books", "use_case": "voice dictation", "switched_from": "", "story": "It's time to talk about my writerdeck"}, {"id": 752683810, "item_id": 47042738, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042738", "by": "sathish316", "date": "2026-02-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "where I was previously using Superwhisper in Docs, Terminal etc.", "excerpt": "To build your own STT (speech-to-text) with a local model and and modify it, just ask Claude code to build it for you with this workflow. F12 -> sox for recording -> temp.wav -> faster-whisper -> pbcopy -> notify-send to know what\u2019s happening https://github.com/sathish316/soupawhisper I found a Linux version with a similar workflow and forked it to build the Mac version. It look less than 15 mins to ask Claude to mod", "context": "", "use_case": "dictation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"}, {"id": 747873681, "item_id": 46742105, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46742105", "by": "woudsma", "date": "2026-01-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It works pretty well.", "excerpt": "I\u2019m using whisper with superwhisper on my mac. I\u2019ve assigned a key on my keyboard, when I press the key it starts listening and when I release it, the text gets copied to the current cursor location. It works pretty well.", "context": "", "use_case": "push-to-talk dictation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?"}, {"id": 746162755, "item_id": 46635172, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635172", "by": "peterldowns", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have used Monologue, Superwhisper, and Aqua, at various times in the past.", "excerpt": "Huge fan! Parakeet v3 works great with it. I have used Monologue, Superwhisper, and Aqua, at various times in the past. But Handy is at least as good, and it's not an expensive subscription. I love that it runs locally, too. Strongly recommend!", "context": "", "use_case": "speech-to-text dictation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Handy \u2013 free open source speech-to-text app"}, {"id": 745075312, "item_id": 46567207, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567207", "by": "jiehong", "date": "2026-01-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "some people use super whisper modes [0] to do some actions with their voice in any app", "excerpt": "This might work through a LSP server? It\u2019s not exactly the intended use case, but it could be coerced to do that. I\u2019ve seen something else like that, though: voice transcription software that have access to the context the text is in, and can interact with it and modify it. Like how some people use super whisper modes [0] to do some actions with their voice in any app. It works because you can say \"rewrite this text,", "context": "", "use_case": "voice dictation with context", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?"}]}