OpenWhispr vs Simon Says

OpenWhispr is an open-source voice-to-text assistant for dictation, transcription, and notes. Dictation works in apps that accept text, including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Google Docs, Gmail, Slack, and Teams. It supports more than 100 languages with automatic language detection. For meetings, it can capture computer audio without joining a call as a bot, then create structured notes with decisions and action items. The note taker works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Discord, Webex, and other apps that play computer audio, without plugins or integrations. Audio can be processed on the device with local speech models or through OpenWhispr Cloud, which says it discards audio without retaining it. The company says user content is not used to train AI models. Free includes 2,000 transcription words per week and five meeting-recording hours per month. Pro costs $6.67/user/mo (annual). OpenWhispr runs on iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Simon Says is a transcription and media workflow product that uses speech recognition to turn audio and video into text, with translation and dubbing also available. Transcription and translation cover 100 languages. In the transcript editor, users can edit, bookmark, annotate, and share transcripts, then arrange text to assemble video. Exports include Word, subtitle formats such as SRT, and applications including Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, Avid Media Composer, and DaVinci Resolve. The website accepts common production audio and video formats, with files up to four hours long; online import limits vary from 5GB to 40GB across plans. Listed platforms are web, extension, iOS, macOS, Windows, and self-hosted. The free plan includes 120 minutes, and paid pricing starts at $15/user/mo (annual). New users receive 15 minutes of free credit. The company says users own their account data and can delete it.