WhisperBar
Native, privacy-first macOS menu bar dictation with real-time streaming.
100% native Swift 6 menu bar utility: live transcription HUD, smart LLM refinement when speech needs it, Keychain-only credentials, and zero third-party dependencies. Prebuilt release is Apple Silicon only (macOS 14+).
- Deepgram Nova live WebSocket streaming with interim HUD preview
- Push-to-talk and hands-free toggle modes with system-wide hotkeys
- API keys stored only in the macOS Keychain
- Local SQLite transcript history with FTS5 search
- Platform
- macOS Apple Silicon
- Version
- v1.1.2
- Shipped
- 22 Sep 2026
- Download
- .dmg 3.2 MB
Opens the GitHub release page: release notes, checksums and the download.
macOS Ad-hoc signed, not notarized. First launch: right-click the app → Open. Fallback: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Requires your own Deepgram / OpenRouter API keys.
Verify the download
- WhisperBar.dmg
7db0c6d57afac590615b02545ac3198e72754e10eeff587172158adb018b84da
Check with sha256sum <file> on Linux or shasum -a 256 <file> on macOS.
