AboutWhat WisprBee is, and what it isn't yet.
The whole picture in one place: how a dictation is actually processed, who touches your audio, what we've built, and what we haven't.
What WisprBee is
WisprBee is an AI voice keyboard and notetaker for macOS. Hold one key, say the thing, let go — and finished writing lands where your cursor was, already suited to whatever is on screen: brief in Slack, properly structured in Gmail, an engineered prompt in Cursor, a filed ticket in Linear. Reading the destination first is the part that makes it a keyboard rather than a transcriber. It sits at the OS level, so the one key works in every text field on the machine, across 75 spoken languages, at roughly four times the pace of typing. In a meeting, the same key runs the built-in Notetaker: it hears the room and the call together, from your Mac, so the transcript covers everybody present without anything ever appearing in the attendee list. Away from meetings, it takes dictation as long as you care to talk.
Two things, then, from one key: it replaces typing in any text field on your Mac with speaking — handing back text you can send without editing it first — and it records your meetings from the machine rather than by joining them. What it is not is a transcription service you upload files to, or a bot that turns up in your calendar. The glossary has the distinction between that and ordinary dictation, and the comparison with Apple's built-in dictation spells out when you don't need us.
| Product | WisprBee — an AI voice keyboard and notetaker for macOS |
|---|---|
| Built by | The WisprBee team — engineering, design and everything on this site |
| Platform | macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) or later, Apple Silicon |
| Price | Free for 2,000 words a month · Pro $12/mo · Pro Plus $20/user/mo |
| Billing | Paddle.com as Merchant of Record · 14-day money-back guarantee |
| Languages | 75 spoken languages, with a separately chosen output language |
| Where audio goes | OpenRouter → OpenAI / Google models, encrypted, not retained |
| Where your data lives | On your Mac — history, dictionary, snippets, keys |
| Meeting capture | Built-in Notetaker, on-device, no bot joins the call |
| Support | [email protected] |
What happens between the key and the paste
Five steps, in this order, every time. Written out because “we take privacy seriously” tells you nothing, and this tells you everything.
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You hold your key
Nothing is captured until you do. WisprBee is push-to-talk: audio recording starts when the key goes down and stops when it comes up. There is no always-listening mode to turn off, because there isn't one.
- 02
Your audio is transcribed
The recording is sent over an encrypted connection to a speech-to-text model — routed via OpenRouter to an OpenAI model for English and other Latin-script languages, or a Google model for other languages. If those services are unreachable, WisprBee falls back to an on-device model so dictation still works.
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The raw transcript is saved first
Before anything is cleaned up or reformatted, the exact transcript is written to your local history. Every later step is therefore reversible, and a bad polish can never cost you your words.
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The text is polished and shaped
The transcript goes over an encrypted connection to a text model (Google, via OpenRouter) which removes filler, fixes grammar and punctuation, resolves spoken self-corrections, and formats the result for the destination profile matched from your frontmost app.
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For the Notetaker, the same pipeline runs on the call
Meeting capture uses the same chain, with one difference at the start: it records your microphone and your Mac's system audio together, so every voice on the call is transcribed rather than only yours. Capture happens on your Mac — nothing joins the meeting — which is also why it works on any platform. Getting everyone's consent to record is your responsibility, and the rules are set out on the Notetaker page.
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It's pasted, and your clipboard is put back
WisprBee borrows the clipboard to paste at your cursor, then restores exactly what was in it. Whatever you had copied is still there.
Our sub-processors, by name
Four companies process your data on our behalf. These are all of them. The Privacy Policy is the authoritative list.
| Paddle | Payments and Merchant of Record — billing, VAT/sales tax, receipts, returns |
|---|---|
| OpenRouter | AI gateway that routes audio and text to the model providers below |
| OpenAI | Speech-to-text for English and other Latin-script languages, via OpenRouter |
| Speech-to-text for other languages, and the text-polishing model, via OpenRouter |
What none of them get: your audio kept after processing, your content sold, or your words used to train a model without your permission.
What we haven't done yet
Every software company has a list like this. Most don't publish it. Ours is here so you can decide with the real picture — and so nothing you read elsewhere on this site can be mistaken for a claim we haven't earned.
We publish certification badges once achieved, not once started. Until then this is a commitment.
Not available today. Don't put protected health information through WisprBee yet.
Signed with Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, with the ticket stapled to both the app and the disk image — so it opens without a warning, and without needing to reach Apple on first launch.
The current build is Apple Silicon only. Email us if you need Intel and it gets prioritised.
macOS came first because that's where the Context Engine can read the frontmost app properly.
Engineered by the WisprBee team
The macOS app, the Context Engine, the Notetaker, the backend and this website are all designed, engineered and maintained in-house by the WisprBee team. Everything published here — the FAQ, the glossary, the guides, the comparisons — is written by the same people who build the product, which is why the answers are specific rather than generic.
Where we depend on someone else, it's named rather than hidden: the speech and text models come from OpenAI and Google via OpenRouter, and payments run through Paddle. Those four are listed above, and the Privacy Policy is the authoritative version. Everything else is ours.
Reaching an actual person
- Support and sales
- [email protected]
- Privacy and data requests
- [email protected]
- Refunds and billing
- [email protected] — or the help link in your Paddle receipt. See the Refund Policy.
Everything on this page was last checked on . Found something out of date? Tell us and it gets fixed.
Put the keyboard down.
Hold a key, say what you mean, and let WisprBee write it right — for wherever it's going. Your fastest, cleanest writing is one keystroke away.
Free to start · macOS · up to 4× faster than typing