MacParakeet
Local-first voice app for Apple Silicon Macs covering dictation, transcription and meeting recording
Free · Open sourceBehind upstreamMac
Version cli-v5.1.0 is out upstream. No Mac app bundle found in the download (this may be a command line tool).
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About MacParakeet
MacParakeet is a local-first voice app for Apple Silicon Macs that combines system-wide dictation, file and media transcription and meeting recording in one place. All speech recognition happens on your Mac, while networked AI features are separate and opt-in.
It suits writers, students and professionals who want to talk instead of type, transcribe recordings and keep meeting notes without sending audio to a cloud service. It also offers a command line tool for automation.
Highlights
- System-wide dictation: press a hotkey in any app, speak, and the text is pasted
- File and URL transcription, with export to TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, DOCX, PDF and JSON
- Meeting recording with system audio and microphone, a live transcript preview and notes
- Text cleanup with filler word removal, custom replacements and snippets
- Optional AI summaries, chat and Transforms through providers you configure
- Public automation CLI, macparakeet-cli
Description adapted from the project README.
- Version
- 0.8.10
- Updated
- Oct 14, 2026
- Size
- 173 MB
- License
- GNU GPL 3.0
Open source details
- Source code
- Exact source for v0.8.10
- Released
- Oct 14, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 708
- Website
- macparakeet.com
Community project. Help and bug reports go to the maintainers on GitHub; AppsXi does not provide support for this app.
License
CopyleftGNU GPL 3.0
Use and change it freely; anything built from it must be shared under the same license, with its source.
Read the full licenseHow this app was checked
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Signed by Daniel Moon (FYAF2ZD7RM)
Apple Developer ID team FYAF2ZD7RM
Notarized by Apple
Hardened Runtime on
File matches the hash GitHub published
SHA-256 a80a4d401ad538dc37c4b2c826b47077064b7f085f3f24cbda481d8219634090
No malware found
ClamAV 1.5.4 on Oct 14, 2026
Install and behavior test in a virtual machine: not run yet
Coming soon for all listings.
Updates itself from the maintainer's own feed
sparkle: https://macparakeet.com/appcast.xml. AppsXi checks each new version too.
Versions
0.8.10checked
Checked Oct 14, 2026 · Mac
DMG · 173 MB
Questions about MacParakeet
Is MacParakeet free?
Yes. MacParakeet is free and open source under the GNU GPL 3.0. AppsXi lists the maintainers' official release and does not charge for it.
Is MacParakeet safe to download?
AppsXi downloads every version of MacParakeet from the maintainers' official GitHub release and checks it before it is listed. For version 0.8.10 (checked Oct 14, 2026), the Mac download is signed by its developer and notarized by Apple, each file matches the checksum GitHub publishes for the release, byte for byte and a malware scan found nothing.
Does MacParakeet run on Apple silicon Macs?
Yes. MacParakeet has a native Apple silicon build.
What does MacParakeet need to run?
MacParakeet needs macOS Sonoma (14.2) or later.
Who makes MacParakeet?
MacParakeet is an open source project by Daniel Moon on GitHub (moona3k/macparakeet). Help and bug reports go to its maintainers there.
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