Open-source, local-first voice-to-text for macOS.
Hold a hotkey, dictate, and the transcript is pasted at your cursor — entirely on-device. Transcription is powered by Whisper and Distil-Whisper running through whisper.cpp, with Metal GPU acceleration and Apple Neural Engine encoding via CoreML where available. Optional self-correction uses llama.cpp. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.
Website: wolves.ink/projects/magpie By: Wolves Software
Download the latest Magpie.dmg from the releases page, open it, and drag Magpie to Applications.
The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it should open without warnings on first launch.
- macOS 13 (Ventura) or later
- Apple Silicon (arm64) — Intel support is on the roadmap
bun install
bun tauri dev # run in development
bun run build:mac # local release build (.app + .dmg)Release builds (signed, notarized, with auto-updater payload) happen in CI when a v*.*.* tag is pushed. See .github/workflows/release.yml and scripts/build-macos.sh.
Magpie is licensed under the MIT License.