Among all the offline transcription apps I've tried, my favorite remains https://whispernotes.app. High accuracy, one-time purchase, and genuinely offline. I love its clean UI.
Honestly, I'm getting tired of subscription-based apps. If it's truly offline, shouldn't it support a one-time purchase model? The whole point of local-first is that you're not dependent on ongoing cloud services, so why structure pricing like you are?
That said, will definitely give Whispering a try - always happy to see more open source alternatives in this space, especially with the local whisper.cpp integration that just landed.
Do you not see the case for Patreon at all? IAP subscriptions can be a form of Patreon for ongoing maintenance and R&D, even for offline applications.
I understand the fatigue but not the outright indignation.
Thanks for shouting out some other great alternatives! The UI looks really clean.
Right now, the pricing is entirely free, and we are trying to expand our local model support to make it truly free. Subscriptions are up to the user right now.
Thanks for giving us a shot, and no pressure on using it! At the end of the day, I just want to build something that is open source and trustworthy, and hopefully will fit into the Epicenter ecosystem, the data layer that I talked about earlier in my post.