Transcribe audio & video to text on your Mac.
Locally. No cloud.
$54 once. No subscription.
Apple Silicon M1–M4 · macOS 14+
One-time payment for the app
7-day refund · hello@maxwhisper.com
I checked. Today I didn’t find any officially announced date when Shopper ships the new price. Nothing on the site, nothing in the inbox, newsletter unchanged. We wait. We don’t guess.
Your Mac does the work.
Whisper (OpenAI). 680,000 hours of training data. OpenAI reports 50% fewer errors. Accents, noise, jargon. 99 languages — auto-detected.
Drop the files. The Mac transcribes. No upload to the cloud.
No minute cap. No cloud.
On the Mac. Not in the cloud.
Why should a private recording leave your computer just to become text?
AI on your Mac
Upload first
The deal
Price
The file
Recording
Secrets
Plaud / screen
The text
Who said what
Plaud and screen capture give you a file. You transcribe it here.
Built for Mac. Paid once. No subscription.
No subscription. It stays yours.
Subscription
A plan and minutes — to send your voice to the cloud.
Never billed
MAX whisper
Transcription on the Mac. Listen. Edit. Lifetime.
Pay once. No subscription.
cloud $200+/yr
Apple Silicon M1–M4 · macOS 14+
7-day refund · hello@maxwhisper.com
Cloud
The recording is not uploaded. Delete secrets before you copy.
The recording stays on the Mac
Questions before you buy
No. $54 once. Lifetime. No monthly plan and no minute cap.
After payment Polar emails the DMG. Drag it to Applications. Not the App Store. Apple already accepted it — signed and notarized. It installs normally. The first open, macOS may ask once. Click Open. That is Gatekeeper for apps outside the App Store.
Yes. 7 days. Email hello@maxwhisper.com. Polar refunds the same card.
No. Whisper runs on this Mac. We do not send recordings to a cloud transcription service. You copy only the text you choose.
Apple Silicon M1–M4. macOS 14 Sonoma or later. The file is a DMG, not the App Store. → About This Mac. Look for Chip. It must say Apple M1, M2, M3, or M4.
No. Intel — even a 2020 Intel Mac — will not open this build. Apple Silicon only (M1–M4).
No. Double-click in Finder.
Yes. ⇧⌘R. Works with the window in the background. Change it in settings.
Yes. Speaker 1, 2, 3 — however many are on the recording. You can type a name. One voice? Turn it off.
Yes. The device records. The Mac transcribes. You do not need to upload the raw file to a transcription cloud.
Yes. Click a turn, play from there, fix the text.
Yes. MP3, MP4, MOV, Zoom, Plaud, a voice memo. Video uses the sound.
Yes. Notes, captions, or any chat — you decide. The recording stays on the Mac.
Soon. Who checked. How long they listened. Whether audio = text. Secrets stay with you.
Pay once. Keep it on your Mac.
$54 once. No subscription.
Apple Silicon M1–M4 · macOS 14+
One-time payment for the app
7-day refund · hello@maxwhisper.com