Wave lets you invoke an AI model anywhere on macOS using just your voice. Hold a hotkey, speak, and release—your speech is transcribed, processed, and the result appears exactly where you need it. If you're typing, it replaces or inserts text. If you're reading, it shows a floating answer. Works across all apps with selected text as context.

Hey everyone 👋 Wave is a simple idea done properly: speech to text that doesn’t lock you in. Most tools either: * limit you to one model * force cloud usage * or stop at basic transcription Wave focuses on doing two things well: 1. Speech → text (Whisper-based) * Fast, accurate transcription * Works locally for privacy * Or via APIs if you want 2. AI mode * Take your speech or selected text * Refine, rewrite, or transform it * Use the model you prefer No subscriptions, no lock-in — just a flexible tool you can actually control. What’s coming next: * Context-aware processing * Per-app behavior (different rules per workflow) * More customization around how text is handled Everything is free and open. Would love to hear how you’d use it or what feels missing 🙌

Local-OR-cloud is the right wedge - most speech-to-text tools quietly force the cloud and then bury that decision three menus deep. I build voice agents and the thing I keep relearning is that transcription is only half the job: where most tools lose users is what happens after the words land on screen. Editing friction, formatting, getting it into the next app. If Wave nails that handoff as cleanly as the privacy choice, it's a different product than the rest of the category.

Wave

Turn your voice into text — local or cloud, your choice

Turn your voice into text — local or cloud, your choice