Ghost Pepper
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Apr 6, 2026first mention
Aug 31, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Or the excellent Ghost Pepper*”
“has been my daily driver (its like superwhisrp but oss/free and local)”
has hand pain from typingon “Apple rejected my dictation app for using the access…”
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“This is exactly what I've wanted on macOS.”
“I love it. I use it all the time to communicate to my agents”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I'm Matt's top contributor to Ghost Pepper”
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Ghost Pepper – 100% local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS 8 mentions
- Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS 1 mention
- item 48521236 1 mention
- The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription 1 mention
- Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API 1 mention
- Show HN: Free OSS transcription app I made and found it's faster than wispr flow 1 mention
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All comments 12
“Or the excellent Ghost Pepper*”
“I don't mind https://matthartman.github.io/ghost-pepper/ however I do really want speaker recognition”
“I use an opensource tool called ghostpepper”
“has been my daily driver (its like superwhisrp but oss/free and local)”
“[3] - https://github.com/matthartman/ghost-pepper”
“This is exactly what I've wanted on macOS.”
“I had Claude make this hammerspoon config + daemon that does pretty much the same”
“Just added Ghost Pepper”
“I love it. I use it all the time to communicate to my agents”
“Not sure why I should use this instead of the baked-in OS dictation features”
I've found the "corrections" feature works well for most of the jargon and misspelling use cases. Can you give it a try and let me know edge cases?
“Do you know how it compares to Handy?”