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Hex is the right tool if you are on Apple Silicon macOS, want zero-cost local transcription with Parakeet TDT v3 on the Apple Neural Engine, and have no need for Windows or Linux, AI command triggers, AI autocomplete, meeting transcription, or a commercial support channel. Typilot is the better fit when you need those surfaces, cross-platform coverage, or a one-time lifetime licence.
Yes - both transcribe audio locally on your device and paste into any text field without an internet connection. Hex is MIT open source and permanently free, optimised for fast on-device transcription via Parakeet TDT v3 on the Apple Neural Engine, and requires Apple Silicon macOS 14+. Typilot adds 27 inline AI commands, AI autocomplete via a local Ollama model, meeting transcription with on-device speaker diarization, and runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux for $7.99/month or $199 as a one-time lifetime purchase.
No. Hex transcribes entirely on-device via Parakeet TDT v3 running through the FluidAudio SDK on the Apple Neural Engine, or optionally via WhisperKit. 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 on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
No. Hex requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) 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.
Hex uses Parakeet TDT v3 via FluidAudio by default, which reaches approximately 2.5% word error rate on LibriSpeech test-clean English with automatic punctuation and word-level timestamps, running on the Apple Neural Engine. Typilot uses local Whisper with a choice of model from tiny (fastest) to large-v3 (most accurate); Whisper large-v3 reaches approximately 2.7% WER on LibriSpeech clean English and covers 99+ languages. For English dictation on Apple Silicon, Parakeet TDT v3 in Hex is marginally faster at similar accuracy; Whisper in Typilot covers far more languages and runs on Windows and Linux as well as macOS.