good point. I haven’t tested MacPorts, but the app currently looks for ffmpeg on PATH, and the Finder launcher doesn’t include MacPorts usual /opt/local/bin. So it may not detect it at the moment. will look into adding proper MacPorts support.

Handy is honestly more mature than mine — cross platform, MIT, and you can pick between Whisper and Parakeet. The real difference is just the model family. I run Qwen3-ASR through MLX instead of Whisper/Parakeet. In my own use it holds up way better with background noise and it punctuate noticeably more naturally, Take that as impression and not a measurement. Qwen3-ASR also accept vocabulary hints, which helps a lot with names and jargon. And mine does files and video with SRT export, not only dictation. Downside: Apple Silicon only. Wispr Flow is a different category — it's paid and your audio goes to their cloud. The text formatting is nicer than mine. Mine is local only and Apache-2.0, which for me is the entire point.

At least English, German, French, Russian, Italian, and Spanish. You can either select them right in the app or let it auto-detect (which it does pretty well). I think more languages are supported, though, just did not try them.

way better from my point of view. I frequently have recordings made in noisy environments. Whisper does not do the job well under such conditions. Also, Qwen respects gramma a lot and splits sentences properly.