# opennookorg/betterwispr

> Local-first macOS dictation app: hold a shortcut, speak, and transcribed text is pasted into any app using on-device Whisper, Parakeet or Apple speech. Positions itself as a free, open-source offline alternative to Wispr Flow.

- Magnitude: 3.5 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 163 total · +29 stars measured 2026-10-11, 18:42–21:29 UTC, ≈ 32 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Swift · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-07 · Last push: 2026-10-11
- GitHub: https://github.com/opennookorg/betterwispr · Homepage: https://betterwispr.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/opennookorg/betterwispr

## Useful for

- Dictate messages and documents into any app without sending audio to the cloud
- Transcribe meetings live and generate on-device summaries and action items
- Connect a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint for transcription when local models are not enough

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-11 (UTC), 18:42–21:29: 134 → 163 stars (+29). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +32 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 4 days old and already has 163 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #153.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac” — 123 points, 9 h ago.

## 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: 13
- Issues and pull requests: 6
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 21 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 10
- Latest release: v0.1.4 (2026-10-09)

## Stars per day, last 5 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-07 … 2026-10-11: 0, 58, 12, 3, 29

## Hacker News

- Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac — 123 points, 76 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042333

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #153

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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 2026-10-11 21:38 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.