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Superwhisper is a voice-to-text dictation application for macOS, Windows, and iOS developed by SuperUltra Inc., a Toronto-based company founded by Neil Chudleigh. It uses Whisper-based automatic speech recognition with options for local on-device processing or cloud transcription.[1][2]
History
[edit]Superwhisper was created by Neil Chudleigh, a Canadian software developer who previously co-founded the affiliate-marketing software company PartnerStack after studying mechanical engineering and computer science at Western University.[3][2] PartnerStack participated in the Y Combinator accelerator program and was acquired by AppDirect in April 2026.[2]
Chudleigh launched Superwhisper on Product Hunt in July 2023[4] and posted it to Hacker News the following month.[5] Within a few months he was earning more revenue from the app than from his full-time job at PartnerStack and left to focus on Superwhisper.[2]
The company operates as SuperUltra Inc. from Toronto. Chudleigh hired his first employee in August 2025, and by May 2026 the company employed six people and five contractors. It is bootstrapped and has taken no outside funding.[2] According to The Globe and Mail, the app has hundreds of thousands of weekly active users, including customers at Meta Platforms, OpenAI, Coinbase, and Dropbox, with revenue in the seven figures.[2]
Technology
[edit]Superwhisper uses the whisper.cpp framework for local transcription, enabling on-device speech recognition without an internet connection.[5] The application supports multiple automatic speech recognition models.[1] Users can choose between local processing, which keeps audio data on the device, or cloud-based transcription through services such as OpenAI.[3]
The application includes customizable "modes" that apply large language models to format transcribed text for specific use cases such as emails, notes, or code.[1][2]
Reception
[edit]In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy, founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla, posted about Superwhisper on X while introducing the term "vibe coding." He described talking to Cursor's AI assistant through Superwhisper, saying he "barely even touch[es] the keyboard."[6] The post had over 4 million views. The New York Times, The Guardian, and Ars Technica later covered vibe coding.[7]
Eight days later, Pieter Levels, founder of Nomad List and Remote OK, posted a video using Superwhisper with Cursor. It had 370,000 views.[8]
Andrew Wilkinson, CEO of Tiny, listed Superwhisper among tools he "couldn't live without" in June 2025, alongside Superhuman and Perplexity.[9]
The New York Times columnist Kevin Roose called it his "AI dictation app of choice" on the Hard Fork podcast in April 2025.[10] On The Wirecutter Show that December, he said he uses it "to dictate emails and writing."[11]
John Collison, co-founder of Stripe, recommended Superwhisper on the Cheeky Pint podcast with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in November 2025.[12]
TechCrunch included it in a December 2025 roundup of AI dictation apps.[1]
In May 2026, The Wall Street Journal grouped Superwhisper alongside competitors in a front-page A-Hed feature about the spread of AI dictation in offices and among software developers.[13]
Two days later, Canada's The Globe and Mail published a feature profile of Chudleigh and Superwhisper, describing the company's bootstrapped growth from Toronto and its position in the emerging market for AI-powered dictation.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Best AI-powered dictation apps of 2025". TechCrunch. December 30, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Harb, Sarah J. (May 12, 2026). "You talk, it types: How a Toronto AI startup hopes to kill the keyboard". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 12, 2026.
- 1 2 "Superwhisper: AI-Powered Voice to Text". Deepgram (Podcast). April 12, 2024. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
- ↑ "Superwhisper". Product Hunt. July 22, 2023. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
- 1 2 "Superwhisper – AI-powered voice to text for macOS". Hacker News. August 23, 2023. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
- ↑ "Andrej Karpathy on X". X (formerly Twitter). February 2, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
- ↑ "What Is 'Vibe Coding'? A New Way to Build Software With A.I." The New York Times. March 11, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
- ↑ "Pieter Levels on X". X (formerly Twitter). February 10, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
- ↑ "Andrew Wilkinson on X". X (formerly Twitter). June 7, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
- ↑ "Hard Fork" (Podcast). The New York Times. April 25, 2025. Event occurs at 1:03:00. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
- ↑ "The Wirecutter Show" (Podcast). The New York Times. December 17, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
- ↑ "Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft's history apply to today's boom". Cheeky Pint (Podcast). November 18, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
- ↑ Clark, Kate (May 10, 2026). "Typing Is Being Replaced by Whispering—and It's Way More Annoying". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 12, 2026.
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