StarWhisper for Mac

Local dictation for Apple Silicon, powered by Whisper and accelerated by Metal. Your audio is transcribed on your Mac and never leaves it.

Download for Mac

DMG installer • 827 MB download • macOS 12 or later
Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) • GPU acceleration (Metal) • Code-signed & notarized by Apple

Installing

  1. Open the downloaded .dmg file.
  2. Drag StarWhisper into your Applications folder.
  3. Open it from Applications (or Launchpad).
  4. Allow Microphone and Accessibility when macOS asks, both are needed to dictate into other apps.

Intel Macs are not supported yet, this build runs on Apple Silicon only. Your Mac has Apple Silicon if it lists an Apple M-series chip under the Apple menu, About This Mac. On Windows? Download for Windows instead.