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Ghost Pepper is the right tool if you are on Apple Silicon macOS, want zero-cost local dictation with automatic cleanup, and have no need for Windows or Linux, inline AI commands, autocomplete, or speaker-labelled meeting transcripts. Typilot is the better fit when you need those features, when you run Windows or Linux, or when you want a lifetime licence with a commercial support channel.
Yes - both transcribe audio locally with no cloud round-trip and paste into any text field. Ghost Pepper is free, MIT open-source, and macOS-only (Apple Silicon). Typilot adds 27 inline AI commands, AI autocomplete, meeting transcription with speaker diarization, and runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux for $7.99/month or $199 as a one-time lifetime purchase.
No. Ghost Pepper transcribes entirely on-device via WhisperKit running on the Apple Neural Engine and runs its filler-word cleanup via a local Qwen model. No audio, no transcript, and no personal data leaves your Mac at any step. Typilot is also fully local: a local Whisper model handles transcription and a local Ollama model handles AI commands and autocomplete.
No. Ghost Pepper requires macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon (M1 or newer); there is no Windows or Linux build. Typilot runs on macOS, Windows 10/11, and Linux including Wayland environments, keeping audio on the device at every tier across all three platforms.
Typilot captures microphone and system audio together, transcribes on-device with a local Whisper model, and applies on-device speaker diarization to label each voice automatically. After the meeting you get a labelled transcript you can query by voice or keyboard. Ghost Pepper can transcribe meetings with a local AI summary but does not attribute individual speakers.