LocalWhisper vs Marian

Speech-to-text that runs entirely on your iPhone. No subscription. No cloud. No word limits. Pay once, dictate forever. LocalWhisper is a dictation keyboard powered by Whisper AI. Your voice is transcribed on-device and never uploaded anywhere. Optional AI cleanup polishes grammar and punctuation — also on-device. Why pay monthly to transcribe your own voice? LocalWhisper's free tier has no word limit and works completely offline. Want even better accuracy? A single one-time purchase — less than the price of a coffee — unlocks our most powerful models. Forever. No trials, no renewals, no surprises. WHY GO LOCAL? Every time you dictate into a cloud-based keyboard, your voice is uploaded, processed, and stored on someone else's server. Passwords, private messages, medical notes, journal entries — all of it. LocalWhisper takes a different approach. The AI runs on your device. Your audio is processed in memory, used for transcription, and immediately discarded. There is nothing to hack, nothing to leak, and nothing to sell. Your words never leave your phone. HOLD TO RECORD. SLIDE TO CONTROL. Long-press the mic to record. Release to transcribe. Slide right to lock recording for hands-free dictation. Slide left to discard. It feels natural from the first use. Made a mistake? Undo the last dictation within 30 seconds. Need to tweak the wording? Edit your transcription before it is inserted. Changed your mind? Cancel mid-transcription. You are always in control. THREE WAYS TO TRANSCRIBE Free — A capable Whisper model, bundled and ready to go. Works offline with no purchase needed and no word limit. Genuinely useful for everyday notes, messages, and quick dictation. Pro — For the price of a coffee, unlock Apple Neural Engine acceleration. Choose from models up to Large v3 for faster, more accurate transcription. One-time purchase. No subscription. Yours forever. Server — Connect to your own Whisper server running on your Mac, home lab, or anywhere reachable over Tailscale or your local network. Run the largest models on your own hardware with zero compromise on privacy or accuracy. AI-POWERED ENHANCEMENT Connect your own LLM (Ollama, Groq, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint) for automatic grammar and punctuation cleanup. Run inference locally on your Mac over Tailscale — no cloud required. Choose a style that fits you: General, Developer, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, or Royal. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT THEIR TOOLS - Custom phrase keys — configurable shortcuts for punctuation, symbols, and cursor movement - User dictionary — set find-and-replace rules so your terminology is always correct - Live status display — see your provider, model, and latency at a glance - Refined dark theme with fluid animations — a keyboard you will actually enjoy using PRIVACY IS THE ARCHITECTURE LocalWhisper collects no data whatsoever. No accounts. No analytics. No telemetry. The App Privacy label reads "Data Not Collected" because that is the literal truth. GET STARTED IN UNDER A MINUTE 1. Download LocalWhisper 2. Open Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > Add LocalWhisper 3. Enable Allow Full Access (required for local app communication only — no data leaves your device) 4. Switch to the LocalWhisper keyboard in any app 5. Hold the mic and speak Free to download. Free to use. No subscription, no ads, no word limits. Upgrade once if you want the best — it costs less than a morning coffee.

Marian is a PDF reader built around one promise: it never loses your place. Close a document mid-sentence, switch apps, restart your phone, come back a week later — Marian puts you back on the same page, at the same zoom, at the same spot on the page. Not "chapter three". The paragraph you were reading. Everything else is arranged so that promise is never in the way. READING • Continuous scroll or page-by-page, whichever you prefer • Light, sepia and dark rendering — with an option to leave photographs and diagrams untouched • Margin crop trims the white edges so the text fills more of the screen • Brightness control that does not touch the rest of your device • Tap once for controls, tap again for a clean page YOUR LIBRARY • Add documents from Files, iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, or by sharing them from any app • Grid or list, sorted and filtered how you like • Search by title or filename • Collections you can nest — projects inside subjects inside years • Five smart collections that keep themselves up to date: Currently Reading, Unread, Completed, Recently Opened, Recently Added MARKING UP • Highlight in five colours • Notes anchored to the page • Bookmarks for the places you will come back to • Export your highlights and notes as Markdown or plain text • Your original PDF is never modified — annotations live alongside it, never inside it ON IPAD • A sidebar with your whole collection tree • Keyboard shortcuts • Full multitasking, in every orientation QUIETLY HONEST • No account. There is nothing to sign up for. • No ads, ever. • Nothing is uploaded. Your documents stay on your device and in whichever service you already keep them in. • Optional anonymous usage data, off by default, with a plain-English list of exactly what it would and would not include. You are asked once, on the second launch, and you can change your mind in Settings at any time. Marian reads PDFs. It does not edit them, sign them, convert them or sell you a subscription to do so.