Handy

What people said

• “For essentially infinite and fast dictation I use on Parakeet streaming (cohere is far better, but slower and has a token output limit so you cant ramble for many minutes). And then just do a cleanup pass with a cheap LLM, it will in my experience,…”

• “Turning a paid sub like WisprFlow into your own weekend build (Jabber) is a great move, but you can take it further by finding open-source alternatives that already implement the features you're replicating. For dictation and speech-to-text like what WisprFlow does, there's Handy…”

• “I use Handy with Claude code. Nice to just have a key combo to transcribe into whatever has focus.”

• “Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app (247 points)”