amicalhq/amical
🎙️ AI Dictation App - Open Source and Local-first ⚡ Type 3x faster, no keyboard needed. 🆓 Powered by open source models, works offline, fast and accurate.
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 10 days ago, with 16 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #52 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 15, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a local-first AI-powered dictation and note-taking app that runs entirely on your machine with offline speech-to-text capabilities.
- Ensures privacy by processing all dictation locally using open source models without requiring internet connectivity.
- Use for drafting emails or messages hands-free with context-aware speech-to-text that adapts to the active application.
- Use for taking smart voice notes that can be summarized or converted into tasks and structured formats.
- Use for developers or productivity enthusiasts who want extensible voice macros and custom workflows integrated into their desktop environment.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
Local-first AI Dictation app.
Amical is an open source AI-powered dictation and note-taking app that runs entirely on your machine. Powered by Whisper for speech-to-text and open source LLMs for intelligent processing, Amical gives you the power of AI dictation with complete privacy.
Context-aware dictation that adapts to what you're doing: drafting an email, chatting on Discord, writing prompts in your IDE, or messaging friends. Amical detects the active app and formats your speech accordingly.
✔︎ - Done, ◑ - In Progress, ◯ - Planned
🚀 Super-fast dictation with AI-enhanced accuracy ✔︎
🧠 Context-aware speech-to-text based on the active app ✔︎
📒 Smart voice notes → summaries, tasks, structured notes ◑
🔌 MCP integration → voice commands that control your apps ◯
🎙️ Real-time meeting transcription (mic + system audio) ◯
🔧 Extensible via hotkeys, voice macros, custom workflows ✔︎
🔐 Privacy-first: works offline, one click setup of local models in-app ✔︎
🪟 Floating widget for frictionless start/stop with custom hotkeys ✔︎
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
144+9
Open issues
56-1
Compared with peers in AI
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| thedotmack/claude-mem | 113.6K | +8.8K | 35 | today |
| D4Vinci/Scrapling | 98.1K | +6.9K | 65 | 1 day ago |
| Leonxlnx/taste-skill | 110.7K | +5.2K | 55 | 1 day ago |
| calesthio/OpenMontage | 77.2K | +4.2K | 40 | — |
| heygen-com/hyperframes | 79.6K | +4.1K | 45 | today |
| amicalhq/amical | 1.6K | — | 37 | 10 days ago |
| Category median | 98.1K | +5.2K | 45 | — |
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