Software · AI chatbots & assistants

whisper-shortcut

Voice-first macOS menu bar app: dictate, voice-edit clipboard, read aloud, AI chat with Google/Trello tools, and live meeting notes. Bring your own keys (Gemini, GPT, Grok) or run offline with Whisper.

Completely free
macOS
Open source
No account

Overview

whisper-shortcut is an AI chat assistant, available on macOS. Other documented uses: speech transcription.

Features described in its GitHub repository: read-aloud.

Remote models are reached with your own API key; these providers generally charge for usage.

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

“Voice-first macOS menu bar app: dictate, voice-edit clipboard, read aloud, AI chat with Google/Trello tools, and live meeting notes.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Voice-first macOS menu bar app: dictate, voice-edit clipboard, read aloud, AI chat with Google/Trello tools, and live meeting notes.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Bring your own keys (Gemini, GPT, Grok) or run offline with Whisper.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Bring your own keys (Gemini, GPT, Grok) or run offline with Whisper.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

whisper-shortcut 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 GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 9 November 2026
Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub mgsgde/whisper-shortcut (AGPL-3.0-only)

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