Vaani

What it is

A native macOS voice dictation app. Hit a global hotkey, speak, and the words appear at the cursor in any application — with a choice of cloud or fully on-device transcription. No subscription, no cloud storage, no telemetry.

Key points

• Multi-provider STT — Groq Whisper, OpenAI Whisper, Deepgram Nova-2, or local whisper.cpp (offline). Switch per-app or globally.
• Multi-provider LLM formatting — optional cleanup pass via Groq Llama, OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, or OpenRouter — removes filler words, fixes punctuation, applies smart formatting.
• Context-aware injection — detects the active app and picks the best of 5 insertion strategies (Accessibility API, clipboard, keystroke, …) with per-app override policies.
• Per-app profiles — different provider, language, and formatting settings depending on which app you're typing into.
• Native macOS integration — global hotkey, audio capture, and text injection are written as C++/Obj-C Node-API addons; the rest is Electron + React + TypeScript.
• Snippets, dictionary, and history — slash-command snippets, custom word replacements, and a browseable history of past dictations.

Result

Shipped to GitHub Releases with a notarised macOS DMG. Cloud mode achieves end-to-end latency competitive with paid alternatives; local mode keeps every byte of audio on-device. Watchdog and capsule-overlay reliability fixes shipped in v1.0.4.