Voxtype
Shares rank 15 of 26 dictation apps by recommenders
Push-to-talk voice-to-text tool for Linux and macOS that people find fast and accurate, though one critic says it repeats the same mistakes.
Push-to-talk voice-to-text tool for Linux and macOS that people find fast and accurate, though one critic says it repeats the same mistakes.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 90%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fast and accurate transcription
“Super fast and regularly even gets the tech lingo correct.”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: RunAnwhere – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon” “with Whisper-base model it is quite fast an accurate”
Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model” Reliable enough for daily use
“it is enough for me to know what is going on”
Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model” “have not been disappointed”
Comment from 7 Apr 2026 in “Voxtype – Push-to-Talk Voice-to-Text for Linux and macOS”
Other dictation apps people recommend
The four most recommended other dictation apps, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Handy | 150 | 20 | 88% | 12 | 1 mo5 owners | Approved |
| Wispr Flow | 52 | 33 | 61% | 12 | — | — |
| MacWhisper | 31 | 9 | 78% | 12 | — | Approved |
| macOS Dictation | 26 | 44 | 37% | 10 | — | — |
| VoxtypeThis page | 9 | 1 | 90% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
10 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Claude-Coded my own CLI dictation tool called VoxType that uses parakeet-mlx”
“has repeatedly been making same mistakes for me”
“you won't even have to type the prompt into the AI and can do your programming almost entirely by voice”
“I've been looking for a good, global, local dictation solution for wayland for a while now, and finally landed on this one.”
“all my ums are filtered out. It's really good now actually!”
“have not been disappointed”
“Super fast and regularly even gets the tech lingo correct.”
“with Whisper-base model it is quite fast an accurate”
“it is enough for me to know what is going on”
“Omarchy's new support for voxtype.io provided the nicest UX”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.