Audio & video to text
Drop a podcast, interview, lecture or video onto your Mac and get an accurate, editable transcript. Subtitles, notes and a searchable archive included. Everything runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded.
Free to download. Unlock Pro with a one-time purchase, no subscription. The App Store always shows the current price before you buy.
What it does for you
Real outcomes for the people who turn recordings into work every day. The features behind each one are listed underneath.
Every file is transcribed on your Mac, so sensitive interviews, client calls and unreleased episodes never leave your computer. There is no account to create and nothing is ever sent to a server.
The same transcript becomes publish-ready subtitles for your video, a clean document for a client, and quick notes for yourself. No copy and paste between five different tools.
Every transcription is saved to a searchable archive. Look up an exact quote by keyword, or simply describe what was said and let meaning-based search surface it for you.
Drop a two-hour podcast or a full lecture and get a reliable transcript from start to finish. Line up a whole folder of files and let your Mac work through them while you do something else.
No subscription, ever. A single upgrade unlocks everything, and transcription quality is never held back to push you toward paying. The free tier uses the same engine as Pro.
A closer look
Native, fast and uncluttered, built around your files.
Who it is for
Use it after the recording, wherever spoken words need to become text.
Turn long episodes into show notes, searchable archives and quotable highlights in minutes.
Generate accurate SRT or VTT subtitles from any video file before you publish.
Keep sensitive interviews private, searchable and easy to quote. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Convert lectures, seminars and recorded readings into notes you can search and revise.
Get clean records of meetings and calls without sending audio to a third-party cloud.
Simple workflow
The product stays intentionally small: convert your existing media into useful text, fast.
Why it exists
On-device transcription is table stakes. The real difference is a focused Mac workflow: a one-time upgrade instead of a subscription, reliable long-file handling, a searchable transcript history, and the same private, on-device philosophy as Weesper Neon Flow.
Weesper ecosystem
The two apps feed each other. Dictate new text anywhere with Weesper Neon Flow, then transcribe podcasts, meetings and videos with Weesper Transcribe. Same on-device engine, same privacy.
Full feature list
For the power users who want the complete picture.
No. Weesper Transcribe is for existing audio and video files. For live dictation into any text field, use its sister app, Weesper Neon Flow.
No. Transcription runs on your Mac. Your media files and transcripts are processed locally and are never uploaded to Weesper.
Plain text, Markdown, SRT and VTT subtitles, DOCX, PDF, HTML, CSV and JSON. Nine formats in total.
No. Pro is a one-time lifetime purchase through Apple's App Store. There is no monthly fee, and transcription quality is never throttled.
Yes. The app is free to download and transcribes files up to 15 minutes at full quality. Pro removes the length limit and unlocks batch processing, pro exports, editing and search.
Yes. Weesper Transcribe is a universal app and runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs (macOS 13 or later).
Transcription supports 57 languages, and the app interface is localized in 13 languages.
Start with one podcast, interview, lecture or video. If it saves you editing time, the app has done its job.
