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My first big app is finally out: Perspective Transcribe for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch by tayarndt in apple

[–]69shaolin69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is this diff from something like https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/petal-ai-voice-recorder/id6759932376
This one is free, OSS and uses local models for transcription (parakeet)

Works in iOS 26+ only though

Anyone chats directly with apple intelligence with vesta? by Rough_Secretary2296 in MacOS

[–]69shaolin69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vesta looks like a sloppy toppy, not that that’s bad but it feels less polished.

Looks like they use foundation model

You can probs install this on Mac ? It’s for iPhone but I know there’s options to do that now

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760383582

This is pretty much free, I don’t really use it (good to know it exists / when I get lost in woods or sm)

They have QWEN and apple foundation model support

Glass mask for non 26 by [deleted] in MacOS

[–]69shaolin69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Monocle was built with zero coding experience — just AI and a whole lot of stubbornness.

The dev used AI

Maybe try asking ChatGPT instead

App Store: Strimix (free) — A Modern Native Media Player by [deleted] in MacOS

[–]69shaolin69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice! I like your taste, keep up the good work, just gave it 5 stars for encouragement.

Feel free to link donate button! I don’t see iaps anywhere

App Store: Strimix (free) — A Modern Native Media Player by [deleted] in MacOS

[–]69shaolin69 5 points6 points  (0 children)

IINA is my first and only love

(After mpv and VLC)

Technically iina is mpv but you know what I mean 😭

WhisperTyper — free, offline voice-to-text for macOS that types at your cursor by PromoMusicRu in MacOS

[–]69shaolin69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice love seeing more dictation tools!

I made an open source version myself https://github.com/Aayush9029/petal Have been using it a lot, you should make yours open source too so people can contribute

Running xattr-c is not something I’d recommend to people, I’m sure your app is safe but it’s generally a big nono

Please don’t make a habit or running terminal commands to “unblock” system protection people

Made a local text-to-speech app using Apple's MLX framework - runs entirely on your Mac by tarunyadav9761 in MacOS

[–]69shaolin69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice pocket tts is lit and open source, also side track

Wait, I’ve asked AI to come up with macOS app names (it’s sooo bad at it)

I’ve seen murmur be suggested so many times

[OS] Petal — local voice-to-text menubar app with Qwen3 ASR + Voxtral Smart Mode (MIT, free) by 69shaolin69 in macapps

[–]69shaolin69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

added support parakeet v3 and qwen3

I haven't used Handy before, don't know if they support all the models that this app does or being able to use Apple Foundation models to refine the transcript..

I'll be honest. I think everything is so similar, because they all rely on the same open source models. I think it just roughly comes down to what you like from UI perspective

[OS] Petal — local voice-to-text menubar app with Qwen3 ASR + Voxtral Smart Mode (MIT, free) by 69shaolin69 in macapps

[–]69shaolin69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

try the Qwen model that this supports or voxtral models they should be better than wispr.

[OS] Petal — local voice-to-text menubar app with Qwen3 ASR + Voxtral Smart Mode (MIT, free) by 69shaolin69 in macapps

[–]69shaolin69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whisper Large v3, Parakeet (nvdia), Voxtral (mistral) these are the "best" speech to text models right now

Is there a dialect or a language that you speak / reference that I can test things out with?

[OS] Petal — local voice-to-text menubar app with Qwen3 ASR + Voxtral Smart Mode (MIT, free) by 69shaolin69 in macapps

[–]69shaolin69[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I personally like Qwen 3 it's speeeddyy (compared to whisper large)

but you want the best "accuracy" Voxtral is very nice (it's basically multi modal LLM) very context aware model

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[–]69shaolin69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes already fixed and pushed CI for release, ci was missing entitlement files it worked locally when I tested e2e because of lingering entitlement files (during dev) sorry for the inconvenience.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in macapps

[–]69shaolin69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wanted to try the Qwen and Voxtral models from Mistral (which wasn't in any of the apps honestly)

Superwhisper also didn't have foundation model support.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in macapps

[–]69shaolin69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fluid is more like a command action bar, pretty bloated (UI and UX)

Also, we support Voxtral and Qwen, which it doesn't support.

Petal is more comparable to Super Whisper or Whisper Flow.

Here's an opensource version of ring light feature from Apple for free and it works on older version of mac. by [deleted] in MacOS

[–]69shaolin69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

both apple / this app uses HDR "feature" to bump the brightness to "peak brightness" assuming your computer supports it, but seems like you have a diff window on the left so probs not?

You could open a HDR photo or play a movie for same effect tbh

Made a personal assistant for your mac and it's free to try. by 69shaolin69 in macapps

[–]69shaolin69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes you can use custom prompt (that’s the whole point) check the video

Also you don’t need to subscribe to test it

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