For your local workflow

Speech.
From the terminal.

The engine, CLI and MCP are free. The command line tool ships inside the Mac app.

Install from Whisnap.

Open the Mac app and choose “Install command line tool”. This creates a symlink to the bundled tool. The app and CLI share the same models folder.

Homebrew distribution is planned for later. The engine is Apache-2.0; its public repository and standalone install command have not been published yet.

Command syntax will be documented with the released tool. This page does not offer an unverified shell command.

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