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Vibeking

A thought, spoken. Words, wherever you work.

Vibeking is a voice-typing app for Mac. Hold a shortcut, say what’s on your mind, and put the words into the app you’re already using.

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Vibeking’s terracotta speaking profile and single outward sound arc on a warm butter-yellow tile.
A little room for your voice.View full size
Made for
Apple Silicon Macs
Requires
macOS 14 or later
Recognition
Local or cloud — your choice

Stay with the thought.

Sometimes a thought is easier to say than to type. Vibeking gives it a short path onto the screen: a note, a message, an email, or the draft you’re already working on. The app stays nearby, ready for the next sentence.

01 / Speak where you work

One shortcut. Keep going.

Hold your recording shortcut to speak, then release it to transcribe and insert the text into the focused app. A quick tap switches to hands-free recording. You can also keep a small dictation bar on screen, with the microphone always within reach.

Vibeking’s recording settings: a configurable shortcut, microphone selection, Escape to cancel, and an optional always-on dictation bar.
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Vibeking’s compact floating bar, shown in Chinese, with its speaking-profile icon, recording shortcut, refinement selector, settings, and microphone.
The optional floating bar. Shown here with Chinese labels.View full size

02 / Give it a shape

A note, an email, or just your words.

Leave refinement off for a direct transcription, or choose a mode for what you’re writing. Polish a sentence, organize a note, draft an email, or translate it. Each mode has an editable instruction, so you can make it work the way you do.

Refinement uses the local or cloud language-model provider you configure.

Vibeking’s refinement editor with Notes selected beside Polish, Email, Code prompt, and Translate. The note-formatting instruction can be edited.
The Notes mode, with its instructions open for editing.View full size

03 / Find your fit

Different languages. Different ways to listen.

Choose a recognition engine for your language, your Mac, and the way you work. Vibeking offers on-device options including Whisper, Parakeet, Qwen3, and Gemma, alongside cloud providers. Download the local model you want, then select it when you’re ready.

Four on-device speech recognition choices in Vibeking: Gemma, Qwen3, Parakeet, and Whisper. Whisper is selected; installed models show Ready.
Local engines, with their language coverage and download status.View full size

04 / A choice you control

Know where your voice goes.

With a local recognition engine, your audio is transcribed on your Mac. Cloud recognition sends audio to the provider you choose; cloud refinement sends the text to its provider. Local models need an initial download. You can keep refinement off, or connect a local language model for that step too.

What’s next

Free to use. Open to build on.

Vibeking is open source under the MIT license. Download the Mac app, explore the source, or make it your own. Contributions welcome.

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