Productivity

WhisprNote

Last updated 2026-09-02 · benchmark measured 2026-09-02 — deterministic & reproducible

WhisprNote is a Mac dictation app with local speech-to-text and AI writing tools.

Is WhisprNote production-ready?

Legit.Show scores WhisprNote 78 out of 100 — the simple average of its 6 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on WhisprNote (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. 6 of the seven frames returned a score; Accessibility was not measurable on this service and is recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 80/100
• Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Security — 25/100
• Privacy — 100/100
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 75/100
• Discoverability — 85/100

What we measured

• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 121 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who it's for

Mac users · Writers · Developers · Professionals seeking faster typing

Pricing

Free forever (2,000 words/week limit); Pro $4.99/month or $24.99/year; Lifetime $39.99 (early bird, rising to $69.99)

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