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WhisperShortcut Voice-first AI for your Mac. Press ⌘1 anywhere, speak, and the transcription lands on your clipboard — ready to paste into any app. Speak an instruction (⌘2) to rewrite whatever you copied, have any selected text read aloud (⌘4), or open an AI chat that works with your Calendar, Gmail, Tasks, and Trello (⌥Space). Bring your own API keys — Gemini, and optionally GPT, Grok, or Claude — or run fully offline with local Whisper. No account, no subscription, no backend. Open source (AGPL-3.0). ▶️ Watch the full demo on YouTube · Website: whispershortcut.com · Made by Magnus Gödde Download ⬇️ Get WhisperShortcut on the Mac App Store — the easiest way to install, with automatic updates. Prefer a direct download? Get the latest signed from GitHub Releases. Cloud features use your Google Gemini API key and, optionally, an xAI API key (Grok chat and TTS), an OpenAI API key (GPT-5.x chat, transcription, GPT Audio Dictate Prompt, TTS), or an Anthropic API key (Claude chat). Offline Whisper needs no key at all. Features Dictate: Record speech and copy the transcription to your clipboard. Use Gemini, OpenAI
| Stars | 74 |
| Forks | 10 |
| Language | Swift |
| Category | Agent Tool |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| Quality Score | 60.1406082957539/100 |
| Last Updated | 2026-10-03 |
| Created | 2025-07-31 |
| Platforms | cli, gemini |
| Est. Tokens | ~22k |
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whisper-shortcut is Voice-first macOS menu bar app: dictate, voice-edit clipboard, read aloud, AI chat with Google/Trello tools, and live meeting notes. Bring your own keys (Gemini, GPT, Grok) or run offline with Whisper. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 74 GitHub stars.
whisper-shortcut is primarily written in Swift. It covers topics such as ai-chat, cocoa, dictation.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the whisper-shortcut GitHub repository at github.com/mgsgde/whisper-shortcut. The project has 74 stars and 10 forks, indicating an active community.
whisper-shortcut is released under the AGPL-3.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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