OpenWhispr/openwhispr

Voice-to-text dictation app with local (Nvidia Parakeet/Whisper) and cloud models (BYOK). Privacy-first and available cross-platform.

Productivity & self-hostedJavaScript#ai#open-source#whisper#anthropic#cross-platform

3.2 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 29, 2026, 12:30 UTC.

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About the project

Cross-platform desktop voice-to-text dictation app that transcribes speech locally (Whisper, NVIDIA Parakeet) or in the cloud and pastes text into any app. It also transcribes meetings, manages notes, and connects to AI assistants.

Useful for

Dictate text into any app via a global hotkey instead of typing
Transcribe a Zoom or Teams meeting recording with speaker diarization
Connect an AI assistant via MCP to manage notes and transcriptions

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

22 stars so far today, about 49 expected by the end of the day.
Over the last two days the pace is 1.6× that of the previous week and a half.
GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #10, +73 stars.
About 14 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Recent forks include notable developers: @slamj1 (491 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 8,816
Today: 22 · ≈ 49 by evening
Forks: 1,087
Issues and pull requests: 2,354
Watchers: 19
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Latest release: v1.10.2 · September 15, 2026
Created: June 19, 2025
Last push: September 29, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 29, 2026GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #10, +73 stars

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