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Transcribe

Turn any audio or video into text, entirely on your Mac.

Private and offline· Apple Silicon· macOS 14+· Free

curl -fsSL https://transcribe.heliconsolutions.net/install.sh | bash

Paste into Terminal and press Return. Rather read it first? View the script.

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Private by design

Your audio never leaves the Mac. No cloud, no upload, no account. Everything runs locally.

Neural Engine fast

A minute of audio in a few seconds, using the Apple Neural Engine and GPU through Whisper.

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Drag, drop, done

Drop any audio or video file. Get clean text, a copy button, and a searchable history.

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Yours to keep

No subscription, no trial. Install it once and it keeps working, on your machine.

How to install

1

Copy the command above and paste it into Terminal.

2

Press Return. It installs Transcribe into your Applications folder and opens it.

3

First launch downloads the speech model once, about 650 MB, then it is fully offline.

What does the command actually do?
#  Downloads the app, installs it, and clears the download
#  quarantine so the bundled engine can run. Nothing hidden.

curl  https://transcribe.heliconsolutions.net/Transcribe.zip
ditto -x -k  Transcribe.zip  /Applications/
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine  /Applications/Transcribe.app
open  /Applications/Transcribe.app

Why Terminal, not a double-click?

This build is not yet notarized by Apple, so a normal download would be blocked by Gatekeeper. Installing through the command above avoids that, and it is fully transparent: you can read every line of the script before running it. A signed, double-click version is on the way.