SuperWhisper is a Mac dictation utility that turns speech into polished text anywhere you can type, using local or cloud speech models of your choosing.
Rather than transcribing files after the fact, SuperWhisper focuses on live dictation. Assign a hotkey, speak, and your words appear in whatever field has focus — email, code editor, chat window, or document. The app can post-process raw speech with a language model to fix punctuation, strip filler words, and format the result as a list or email draft. Users who care about privacy can run recognition on-device, while those chasing maximum accuracy can connect their own cloud transcription keys.
Where file-based transcription tools wait for you to finish recording, SuperWhisper collapses the loop: think, speak, and the text is already in your document. Writers use it for first drafts, developers for commit messages and code comments, and managers for replying to email hands-free. Custom vocabulary keeps names and technical terms accurate, and per-app presets mean the tool adapts to context instead of forcing one global behavior.
Because dictation works in every macOS text field, users reach for it well beyond writing — filing tickets, drafting pull request descriptions, or capturing ideas while walking. Per-app presets keep output shaped for each context, and the option to run recognition locally makes it acceptable in workplaces with strict data rules.
SuperWhisper is sold as a paid license with a free evaluation window; advanced model routing and team features sit on higher tiers.
Writers, developers, and professionals who think faster than they type and want dictation that behaves like a native system feature. It fits anyone who talks faster than they type and wants the output to arrive clean.