Superwhisper alternative

Both dictate into any app. Both work offline. The difference is what you have to build first: Superwhisper gives you modes, prompts and shortcuts to set up, and JotMic works out what your apps can do on its own.

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What it changes about a working day

Most of what you write is not prose. It is a reply to Sam, a line in a ticket, a commit message, a note before you forget, a Slack answer with three caveats in it. Each one is thirty seconds of typing and a small tax on attention, and there are forty of them a day. Dictation is worth having because it collapses that, not because it writes your novel.

Say “tell sam we ship friday and ask if the review is still on” into your email and what lands is “Hi Sam — we ship Friday. Is the review still on? Thanks.”Say the same sentence into your notes and you get two bullets. Say it into a chat window and you get “we ship friday — review still on?” One dictation, shaped for where it landed, with the ums and false starts taken out and nothing left to tidy before you press send.

Superwhisper does this too, through modes you set up and prompts you write. That is more control and it is also a project. JotMic ships the common shapes working, and you can add your own when you find you want one.

The words it stops getting wrong

The thing that kills dictation is not accuracy in general, it is the four words you use forty times a day. A colleague’s name. Your product. An acronym your industry made up. Every wrong one is a trip back to the keyboard, which is the whole saving gone.

Teach JotMic a word once and it keeps landing right — on your laptop and on your desktop, because vocabulary is on the account rather than the machine. There is no re-training, no profile to rebuild, and nothing to re-enter when you get a new computer.

It already knows what your apps can do

This is the part that is not dictation at all. Superwhisper’s commands are ones you define — a shortcut to launch something, a mode with a prompt behind it. JotMic reads what the app in front of you actually offers and turns that into things you can say. In Finder, “new folder”. In Numbers, “merge cells”. In your editor, “toggle sidebar” or “split editor”. In a browser, “new tab”, “close tab”, “scroll down”.

None of those were configured, and none is a list somebody at JotMic wrote down. When an app updates and adds a menu item, that becomes something you can say too. It only acts on a complete phrase matched exactly, so “new” will not fire “New Folder”, and anything it does not recognise is typed as words so you always see what happened. One switch in Settings turns it off entirely. This is the macOS behaviour; on Windows the built-in set — opening and switching apps, tabs, scrolling, copy, paste, undo, volume and media — works everywhere.

Recordings you already have

Drop in an interview, a call, a lecture or a video and get clean text or subtitles back. It is the same app and the same vocabulary, so the names it learned from your dictation are spelled right in the transcript too. Both JotMic and Superwhisper do this on a paid plan.

Working in about ninety seconds

1. Pick your key. Right Option by default. Hold it to dictate, let go and the text lands. There is no window to open and no button to find.
2. Grant two permissions. Microphone, so it can hear you. Accessibility, so it can type for you. That is the complete list — no screen recording, no camera, no calendar, no contacts.
3. Hold, talk, release. Punctuated text appears wherever your cursor already was. Nothing to copy, nothing to paste, and nothing to set up per app.

There are no modes to build before it works, no prompts to write and no transcription model to choose. If you want to teach it a name it keeps spelling wrong, that is one entry and it then applies on every machine on your account.

Windows is not a second build

Superwhisper documents current limitations in its Windows version. JotMic is one product on macOS 14 or later and Windows 11 on 64-bit: the same dictation, the same commands, the same vocabulary, one account. A word you teach it on the laptop is spelled right on the desktop.

What leaves your machine, and what is kept

Nothing is kept, on either setting. What you say is turned into text and deleted straight after — no recording archived, no transcript stored, and nothing used to train a model. That holds whether you are online or not.

If nothing may leave the building, it does not have to. JotMic can run the whole thing on your own machine with no network at any point, which is a different promise from deleting things afterwards: there is no upload to delete. That mode is opt-in, it wants a machine with room to spare, and online is the default otherwise.

Two permissions, and that is the whole list. Microphone to hear you, Accessibility to type for you. No screen recording, no camera, no reading your files. You can check that in System Settings rather than taking our word for it.

Not for you if

You want to dictate on an iPhone, record and transcribe meetings, choose between transcription models, or plug in your own API keys. Superwhisper does all four and JotMic does none of them.

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