Saydrop
Notes on running local AI models on Apple Silicon, native macOS development, and building privacy-first dictation.
Subscribe via RSSWe put 18 local cleanup LLMs and 5 Whisper models through a latency-and-accuracy benchmark on Apple Silicon. A multimodal model beat every text-only LLM on both speed and quality. Here's the data, the failures, and what to actually run.
Apple Dictation is free and private, but it lacks AI cleanup, personal dictionaries, and jargon accuracy. See what separates built-in from standalone.
A deep dive into why we chose Apple's MLX framework for Saydrop, and how we keep Whisper resident in unified memory for sub-second push-to-talk dictation.
Compare Saydrop and Superwhisper: local cleanup defaults, pricing, and complexity. Which dictation app fits your Mac workflow?
Local speech-to-text on Mac keeps audio private. Compare accuracy, cost, latency, and privacy tradeoffs between on-device and cloud dictation.
Compare Saydrop (one-time CHF 39 on-device transcription) with Wispr Flow (Pro $15/mo cloud). Which privacy-first dictation app fits your Mac?
Compare 7 macOS dictation apps by price, privacy, and AI cleanup. Local, cloud, one-time, subscription—find the best for your workflow.