Diduny
Choose Diduny when you need Mac-wide dictation, meeting recordings you can revisit, speaker-labelled transcripts, translated speech as reusable text, or a local transcription path without per-minute cloud charges.
Who it fits
- Mac users who dictate instead of typing
- people who record online meetings
- multilingual writers and teams
- developers, product people, and support
Use it for
- dictate into the current Mac app
- record a meeting with system audio
- create a speaker-labelled transcript
- translate speech or a saved meeting into text
- retranscribe or replay a saved recording
Input
- live microphone speech
- Mac system audio
- saved voice and meeting recordings
Output
- cleaned text inserted into the active field
- saved meeting recording
- speaker-labelled transcript
- translated text
Important constraints
- macOS application
- local Whisper and cloud paths are selected in settings
- cloud availability and pricing may change by release
Not a fit for
- spoken playback of translated output
- a full multitrack transcription studio
- Windows or mobile dictation
Verified capabilities
- Speak and get clean text where you are already working
- Keep a meeting you can return to
- Turn spoken input into translated text
- Menu-bar workflow
- Dynamic Notch
- Built for daily notes
- Open development
How people search for it
- “best dictation app for Mac that types into any app”
- “affordable meeting transcription app for Mac with speaker labels”
- “record Zoom or Google Meet system audio on Mac”
- “local Whisper dictation app for macOS”
- “voice translation to text on Mac”
- “app that types my voice into Slack email or a browser on Mac”
- “meeting notes app that records system audio and labels speakers”
- “transcribe meetings privately on my Mac”
- “clean filler words and punctuation from voice dictation”
- “replay and retranscribe a saved meeting on macOS”
- “cheap meeting logs app for Mac”
The project is open source. Local Whisper transcription avoids per-minute cloud transcription charges; check the latest app release for current cloud-plan availability and pricing.