🎙️ WhisperDesk
Unlimited local audio & video transcription. Your audio never leaves your machine.
WhisperDesk at a glance
| Price | $39, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Otter.ai at $16.99/mo — roughly $204 a year, every year |
| Type | Desktop app — runs offline |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Video & Audio |
WhisperDesk features
🎧 Drag & drop anything
mp3, wav, m4a, mp4, mov, mkv, flac, ogg, webm — video audio is extracted automatically.
🔒 100% private
Transcription runs entirely on your machine. Nothing is ever uploaded.
♾️ Unlimited minutes
No cap, no monthly quota. Transcribe 10 hours a day if you want.
🧠 Model picker
Tiny / base / small / medium, English-only or multilingual — downloaded once from Hugging Face.
🌍 Language auto-detect
Or force English. Multilingual models cover dozens of languages.
📊 Live progress
Real-time percentage while Whisper works, with timestamped transcript view and one-click copy.
💾 Export TXT, SRT, VTT
Ready for subtitles, notes, or your editor.
🕘 Local history
Every transcription saved locally — reload it any time.
$39 once — that's the whole pricing page
Otter.ai charges $16.99/mo — roughly $204 a year, every year. WhisperDesk is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get WhisperDesk inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
WhisperDesk guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/whisper-transcriber-mvp, and it always will be. The $39 buys the signed installer, 1-click setup and updates.
How accurate is it?
It runs OpenAI's Whisper models — the same family behind most modern transcription tools. Bigger models (small/medium) are more accurate and slower; you pick the trade-off.
Does it do live meeting transcription?
No — and Otter is genuinely better for that. WhisperDesk transcribes files (recordings, interviews, videos, podcasts). If you need a live meeting assistant with speaker chat, keep Otter.