Software · AI chatbots & assistants

Eqho

Free, offline voice-to-text dictation. Press a hotkey, speak, and your words appear in any app — 100% local, powered by Whisper.

Completely free
Windows, macOS and Linux
Open source
No account

Official website

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
License: AGPL-3.0 — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Account required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: Windows, macOS and LinuxEstablished by Linux: Unspecified source · macOS: Unspecified source · Windows: Unspecified source, Winget
Publisher: damt.xyz
Latest version: 0.8.11
Source code: github.com/danielmevit/eqho

Overview

Eqho is a speech-to-text program, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository, on its official website and in its Winget manifest: voice input and commands, hardware acceleration.

Services and protocols mentioned: OpenAI.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Free, open-source dictation for Windows, Linux and macOS.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“Free, open-source dictation for Windows, Linux and macOS.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“⚡ Works on any PC — on Windows, NVIDIA cards (CUDA) and AMD or Intel graphics cards (Vulkan) make transcription fast.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Eqho is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (AGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) — 9 November 2026
Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 8 November 2026
Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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