# cjpais/Handy

> Cross-platform desktop app for offline speech-to-text: press a hotkey, speak, and the transcription is pasted into the active text field. Runs locally with Whisper or Parakeet, no cloud.

- Magnitude: 2.9 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 35,023 total · +12 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:05–05:44 UTC, ≈ 73 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · License: MIT · Created: 2025-02-13 · Last push: 2026-10-27
- GitHub: https://github.com/cjpais/Handy · Homepage: https://handy.computer · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/cjpais/Handy

## Useful for

- Dictate text into any app without sending audio to the cloud
- Trigger transcription via the --toggle-transcription CLI flag from a script or Raycast
- Pick a Whisper or Parakeet model matching your hardware and language

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-29 (UTC), 00:05–05:44: 35011 → 35023 stars (+12). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +73 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- About 11 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3,331
- Issues and pull requests: 1,741
- Watchers: 92
- Average over the last week: 103 per day
- Usual pace: 80 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 2
- Latest release: v0.9.8 (2026-10-03)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: 57, 75, 125, 84, 88, 103, 108, 94, 149, 90, 82, 99, 78, 82, 112, 93, 92, 65, 67, 53, 72, 73, 91, 94, 81, 107, 163, 114, 91, 12

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-10 3.2, 10-11 2.9, 10-12 3.0, 10-13 3.0, 10-14 3.4, 10-15 3.5, 10-16 3.2, 10-17 3.0, 10-24 2.9, 10-25 3.0, 10-26 3.4, 10-27 3.6, 10-28 3.4, 10-29 2.9

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-29 05:52 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.