Lispr is a free voice dictation and translation app for Mac and Windows. Hold a key, speak, release. Your words land in whatever app your cursor is in. Speak in ~99 languages and switch mid-sentence. Hold your translation key as well, and the translation lands instead, in any of 32 languages. Median latency 346 ms. The mic is off until you hold the key, and we never store your audio. No account, no model download, free.
I'm Konstantin, co-founder of Codebridge, a software development company. Lispr's first user was me.
Why I built it
My workday is Claude Code sessions, client emails, Teams threads, and spec reviews: thousands of words typed across a dozen apps. Then I noticed that when I dictated instead of typing, I got several times more done. The effect was strongest with AI tools. When you talk to Claude or Cursor, you give whole paragraphs of context you'd never bother to type, and the answers get far better. Typing made me ration what I told the AI.
I wanted one tool that types wherever my cursor is: chat, email, code editor, browser. I tried what was on the market and kept hitting the same walls: multi-gigabyte model downloads, accounts, subscriptions, or latency that sent me back to the keyboard. We're a dev company, so we built our own.
The multilingual part is personal too. We're a Ukrainian company. Ukrainian inside the team, English with clients, and many of our people live abroad and run daily life in a third language. So translation got its own keys: you set two, and holding one along with the dictation key changes what happens when you let go. Release with just the dictation key and you get the transcript; release with a translation key held and the translation lands instead. When you drift between languages mid-sentence (we all do), Lispr follows. No setup, no mode switch.
What Lispr is
A free voice dictation and translation app for Mac and Windows. Hold the key, speak, release. Your words land in whatever app your cursor is in. Hold a translation key too, and on release the translation lands instead of the transcript.
Where it earns its keep:
Draft Slack messages and emails without touching the keyboard
Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor by voice, with far richer context than you'd type
Write in Notion, Docs, anywhere text goes
Speak in ~99 languages, switch mid-sentence
Teach it your vocabulary, so client names and jargon come out spelled right
Dictate in one language, release, and it lands in another of 32, via two configurable per-language keys. No other Mac dictation tool has this.
Speed and footprint
Median latency is 346 ms from key-release to text on screen, measured server-side on live traffic. The whole app is a 3.67 MB download, with no model file and no GPU requirement. It runs on macOS 11 and later, including Intel Macs, and on Windows.
Privacy, the specifics
Your microphone is off until you hold the key.
Audio streams to a hosted Whisper large-v3-turbo model for transcription. Our servers don't store it, and no transcript content is logged anywhere. The inference provider holds audio up to 30 days only for abuse review, then deletes it.
Nothing trains on your voice, transcripts, or translations unless you opt in, and the opt-in is double-gated.
No account. Download, grant mic permission, start talking.
Is there a catch?
No. Lispr is free and the free tier stays. Codebridge is a profitable consulting company, and Lispr's architecture pays per call, so infrastructure costs scale with usage, not with always-on GPU capacity. It costs us very little to keep free. If we ever add a paid tier, it will be for heavy or team-scale use, never for everyday dictation.
For the PH community
We're reading and answering every comment today. What gets named in this thread will shape what we build next: iOS and Android are already on the list, and the requests here move up the queue.
Which languages do you work in? We built this for multilingual days, and I'm curious how multilingual this community is.
Thanks to our early users in 29+ countries for finding the rough edges, and to @myroslav_budzanivskyi, our CTO, who took Lispr from first commit to a notarized public release in a single day, then shipped 67 releases in the three weeks after.
Hey, congrats on the launch!! I hope this can be a free alternate for Wispr flow! I've signed up and started using this!
Myroslav and Nelli, congrats on Lispr. Switching languages mid sentence without breaking the flow is the kind of detail that actually sells a dictation app
Launch day is closing, and I want to say thank you before it does. To everyone who voted, commented, asked the hard questions about privacy and architecture, reported a stubborn trigger key, and dictated their first message with Lispr today: you made this day what it was. The questions in this thread already changed our roadmap notes, and that's worth more than any badge.
Lispr stays free, the work continues tomorrow, and I read every reply here. If you installed it today, tell me in a week how it's holding up.
Congrats on the launch! I'm a QA engineer on a multinational team, and most of my day happens in English chats while English isn't my first language. This thing killed my "pause, look up a word,rephrase" loop: I say it the way I'd say it out loud, release the key, and a clean English sentence shows up. Also started dictating my Claude Code prompts and they got longer and way more useful than what I used to type. Voted, obviously.
As an indie dev who basically lives in AI coding sessions, the "typing made me ration what I told the AI" point hits hard — I under-explain to Claude/Cursor constantly just to save keystrokes. Sub-350ms and it lands wherever the cursor is could genuinely fix that. Curious how it handles code/technical terms and jargon vs everyday speech?
hosted whisper to keep it 3.67mb is a sharp trade — but latency's now a network function. the seam is a flaky link: a partial transcript landing silently is the one failure worse than a keyboard.
How does the translation work mid-sentence without it getting confused, especially with technical terms or names that don't translate cleanly?
Nice one. I added voice input to my own app recently and the hard part wasn't transcription at all, it was getting the mic to behave the same on every device. Does hold to talk work in any text field system wide, or is it per app? Congrats on the launch, hope it goes well today!
This is a very neat idea. Love the concept. For clarity on Windows, it only uses the right CTRL key right? Which I don't think I ever use for any other purpose so makes a lot of sense!
Just fyi, Chrome is flagging a security risk on download. I wonder if it would be better hosting downloads from a common repository rather than your own site? Although this is obviously an issue that will disappear over time.
This is the right shape for dictation tools: the trust boundary matters as much as the model. A visible hold-to-talk state, no account, and clear audio handling make it much easier to use in client notes, specs, and prompts without second-guessing the capture path.
Just downloaded and I'm using LISPR to write this message. Seems like a great tool. All the best with the launch.
the no-account, stateless-relay answer to the audit question above was refreshingly honest, more teams would just say "we don't log anything" and leave it there. that raises a question about the vocabulary feature though - if it learns client names and jargon from my dictations over time, that's a profile of sorts even without an account. is that vocabulary list stored purely on-device, or does it live server-side somewhere tied to an install id, since "no persistent identity" and "the app remembers your jargon across sessions" seem like they need to be reconciled somehow
Nice one love it! How to you plan to make money ? and the trigger key isn't working on my mac i tried multiple of them. maybe add the possibility to add custom one ?
Congrats on the launch! just wanted to understand how is @Lispr different from Wispr flow?
Really interesting. Since Lispr works system wide, have you found any unexpected workflows where users save the most time?
I've been using Lispr on my mac almost every day, and it's honestly become one of those apps I keep coming back to. I work in marketing and also do mentoring, so I spend a huge chunk of my day writing feedback, docs, slack messages, briefs etc. It doesn't magically write everything for me, but it cuts the time I spend writing by a lot. Funny enough, I used Lispr to write this review too 😄
If your job involves writing a lot, I'd definitely recommend giving it a try.
Congrats for you! Wondering how it handles contexts like coding tools versus marketing or social writing, since those are pretty different voice-to-text use cases.
I do marketing for Lispr. But I'm writing this as its heaviest user, because the tool changed how I work before it ever became my job to talk about it.
The biggest surprise was my AI workflow. When I typed prompts, I kept them short and got generic answers back. Speaking, I give the model two minutes of context, examples, and constraints without thinking about my fingers, and the answers improved to the point where colleagues asked what I changed.
The second thing: I live in Poland and run my life in three languages. Ukrainian with family, English at work, Polish everywhere else. Switching the output language is one extra key held at release, so I think in Ukrainian and the message lands in English. Of everything in the app this is what I'd pay for.
Ask me anything about how we use it day to day. The founders are in this thread too.
About Lispr on Product Hunt
“Hold a key, speak, and Lispr writes it anywhere”
Lispr launched on Product Hunt on July 9th, 2026 and earned 290 upvotes and 52 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Lispr is a free voice dictation and translation app for Mac and Windows. Hold a key, speak, release. Your words land in whatever app your cursor is in. Speak in ~99 languages and switch mid-sentence. Hold your translation key as well, and the translation lands instead, in any of 32 languages. Median latency 346 ms. The mic is off until you hold the key, and we never store your audio. No account, no model download, free.
Lispr was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (656.2k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (473.7k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 262.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Lispr?
Lispr was hunted by Rohan Chaubey and Konstantin Karpushin. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Rohan Chaubey,
Konstantin Karpushin
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Konstantin, co-founder of Codebridge, a software development company. Lispr's first user was me.
Why I built it
My workday is Claude Code sessions, client emails, Teams threads, and spec reviews: thousands of words typed across a dozen apps. Then I noticed that when I dictated instead of typing, I got several times more done. The effect was strongest with AI tools. When you talk to Claude or Cursor, you give whole paragraphs of context you'd never bother to type, and the answers get far better. Typing made me ration what I told the AI.
I wanted one tool that types wherever my cursor is: chat, email, code editor, browser. I tried what was on the market and kept hitting the same walls: multi-gigabyte model downloads, accounts, subscriptions, or latency that sent me back to the keyboard. We're a dev company, so we built our own.
The multilingual part is personal too. We're a Ukrainian company. Ukrainian inside the team, English with clients, and many of our people live abroad and run daily life in a third language. So translation got its own keys: you set two, and holding one along with the dictation key changes what happens when you let go. Release with just the dictation key and you get the transcript; release with a translation key held and the translation lands instead. When you drift between languages mid-sentence (we all do), Lispr follows. No setup, no mode switch.
What Lispr is
A free voice dictation and translation app for Mac and Windows. Hold the key, speak, release. Your words land in whatever app your cursor is in. Hold a translation key too, and on release the translation lands instead of the transcript.
Where it earns its keep:
Draft Slack messages and emails without touching the keyboard
Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor by voice, with far richer context than you'd type
Write in Notion, Docs, anywhere text goes
Speak in ~99 languages, switch mid-sentence
Teach it your vocabulary, so client names and jargon come out spelled right
Dictate in one language, release, and it lands in another of 32, via two configurable per-language keys. No other Mac dictation tool has this.
Speed and footprint
Median latency is 346 ms from key-release to text on screen, measured server-side on live traffic. The whole app is a 3.67 MB download, with no model file and no GPU requirement. It runs on macOS 11 and later, including Intel Macs, and on Windows.
Privacy, the specifics
Your microphone is off until you hold the key.
Audio streams to a hosted Whisper large-v3-turbo model for transcription. Our servers don't store it, and no transcript content is logged anywhere. The inference provider holds audio up to 30 days only for abuse review, then deletes it.
Nothing trains on your voice, transcripts, or translations unless you opt in, and the opt-in is double-gated.
No account. Download, grant mic permission, start talking.
Is there a catch?
No. Lispr is free and the free tier stays. Codebridge is a profitable consulting company, and Lispr's architecture pays per call, so infrastructure costs scale with usage, not with always-on GPU capacity. It costs us very little to keep free. If we ever add a paid tier, it will be for heavy or team-scale use, never for everyday dictation.
For the PH community
We're reading and answering every comment today. What gets named in this thread will shape what we build next: iOS and Android are already on the list, and the requests here move up the queue.
What I'd love from you
Download it and tell me where it trips: lispr.ai
Which languages do you work in? We built this for multilingual days, and I'm curious how multilingual this community is.
Thanks to our early users in 29+ countries for finding the rough edges, and to @myroslav_budzanivskyi, our CTO, who took Lispr from first commit to a notarized public release in a single day, then shipped 67 releases in the three weeks after.
Konstantin