Muesli

Muesli is an open-source macOS app that brings speech-to-text and meeting transcription directly to your computer, processing audio locally on Apple Silicon by default. It lets you dictate anywhere on your Mac with a hotkey, capturing your words and pasting clean text into the app you're already using. The app also transcribes meetings from your computer's audio, keeping transcripts local and accessible.

Designed for professionals who want privacy-first workflows, Muesli offers optional hosted transcription via OpenAI or OpenRouter if you prefer, but defaults to on-device processing. It integrates with AI agents through a local CLI, allowing coding assistants to access meeting notes and transcripts. The project describes itself as an alternative to Granola and WisprFlow, emphasizing that your speech data stays on your machine rather than flowing through subscription services.