Transcribe audio on your Mac. Privately. For free.
Austin's Transcriptor runs Whisper locally on your Mac. Drag in an audio file, get an accurate transcript with speaker labels. Nothing leaves your computer.
Every Whisper model is free — Tiny, Base, Small, Medium, and Large. Most transcription apps charge for the bigger ones. We don't.
Free to use with a small banner ad in the sidebar. $39.99 one-time purchase removes the ad. No subscription, no renewal — pay once, no ads forever.
Every model, free
Tiny, Base, Small, Medium, and Large-v3. Other apps lock the big ones behind a subscription. We ship them all.
Speaker labels
Real on-device diarization. Multi-speaker meetings come out as "Speaker 1 / Speaker 2" — rename to anyone you like.
100% on-device
Your audio never leaves your Mac. No upload, no API call, no account. Works offline once your model is downloaded.
$39.99, lifetime
One-time purchase removes the sidebar ad. No subscription, no auto-renew. Pay once, no ads forever.
Built for Apple Silicon
Metal GPU + Core ML acceleration. Tiny transcribes faster than realtime; Large is reasonable for podcasts and meetings.
Exports everywhere
SRT, VTT, plain text, HTML, Word, and PDF. Drag the resulting file straight into Final Cut, Premiere, or your CMS.
About
Austin's Transcriptor is built by Austin Munday on top of whisper.cpp, the open-source C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper model. Speaker diarization uses sherpa-onnx. Nothing in this app talks to a server we control.
If you also want a fast, dark-mode weather radar on your iPhone, my other app is Austin's Radar.
Contact
Questions, bug reports, or feature requests: austindmunday@gmail.com