Record anywhere
Start from the floating widget or a global shortcut while you are writing, browsing, or moving between apps.
Mac app · local-first · open source
Voice Snippet
A tiny floating Mac app for turning spoken thoughts into clean text. Press a shortcut, talk, and get a transcript on your clipboard without sending audio to a cloud API.
Apple Silicon Mac · macOS 26+ · Apple Intelligence for rewrite styles
Watch the whole flow in 41 seconds.
Daily flow
Capture the thought before it evaporates.
Transcribe locally
WhisperKit runs on your Mac. Audio stays on-device, and the first model download is cached for future recordings.
Clean up instantly
Use on-device Apple Foundation Models to turn rough speech into clean notes, bullets, emails, or polished text.
Window modes
Keep it tiny, expand it when you need more, hide it with a shortcut.
Voice Snippet remembers the way you left it, so it can live as a small recorder or open into the full workspace for history, dictionary, and settings.
Inside the app
Small enough to stay out of your way. Useful enough to keep open all day.
Built for private, fast drafting
- Clipboard-first workflow for notes, messages, and rough ideas.
- History and custom vocabulary stored locally on your Mac.
- Signed Mac release, source code, and issue tracker available on GitHub.
Privacy model
No account. No API key. No cloud transcription.
Voice Snippet uses WhisperKit for speech-to-text and Apple Foundation Models for rewrite styles. The app makes one network request path for first-run Whisper model download; daily transcription and formatting run locally.
Install
Try it on a supported Mac.
- Download VoiceSnippet.app.zip from the latest GitHub release.
- Unzip it and drag VoiceSnippet.app into Applications.
- Open the app and allow Microphone access when macOS asks.
- Record a short sentence, then use a rewrite style to clean it up.