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Whisper

Whisper is a speech-to-text mobile app, available on Android: offline use, voice input and commands.

  • Free, with trade-offs
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

Whisper is a speech-to-text mobile app, available on Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: offline use, voice input and commands.

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 recognition based on Whisper” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Voice recognition works completely offline.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Besides providing an IME, whisper can also be selected as system-wide voice input (RecognitionService) and it supports calls via intent (RecognizerIntent.ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH).” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Whisper is free, with trade-offs: it relies on a non-free online service.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Flagged by F-Droid: relies on a non-free online service

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Listing written automatically from verified facts.

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