xcribe

Privacy‑focused transcription tool for macOS. For free. No ads, no tracking, no data collection.

xcribe
https://xcribe.app
Privacy‑focused transcription tool for macOS. For free.
No ads, no tracking, no data collection.m
https://xcribe.app

When the AI voice local models boom started, I saw many apps being developed. The majority of them required some kind of payment, had ads, or were a bit vague about their permissions and their privacy.

Due to my job, I have to write quite a lot of messages, documents and even prompts. Some of those require extreme confidentiality. So, I wanted a great dictation tool that had privacy and security as a first-class citizen. Plus, I wanted it to be free, for anyone. No data collection, no ads, no strings attached.

I am a big advocate for privacy and security, and at the same time I like build stuff!
So, I decided it was time to develop my first even MacOS native application. Wanted to learn Swift and the whole development eco-system.

So, introducing xribe.app!

It was, and still is, a lot of fun! Especially when I build xcribe... using xcribe 😄

I was also surprised how many people engaged with my reddit post. Even more people wrote me DMs and emails.

As of Sept 2025, more than 300 people have requested access to the extended features, and according to the Apple Analytics*, there has been 1.20K sessions, and 4.4K impressions on the store.

* Apple collects automatically some anonymous stats and makes them available to developers. This is not something that we can control.