I got frustrated paying monthly for something that could run on my Mac, so I built Lucid Voice:
- 100% offline (Nvidia Parakeet + Llama)
- $20 one-time (mainly to cover Apple's notarization costs)
- Runs on surprisingly low-end hardware (M1 base models work fine)
- No cloud, no data collection
Open to feedback on anything - pricing, the tech stack, or if this should just be free: https://lucidvoice.app
At the same time, I think you shouldn't give away "Lifetime updates" for same pricing tier. Are you planning to support it for the next 10+ years and across next 5-10 mac hardware/version without any new license cost?
There was and technically still is Omnivore (https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore), but it got aquired by ElevenLabs last year and the official instance got shut down. Shiori (https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori) also comes to mind, but I think that's about it.
As for closed source solutions, I'd say Readwise Reader (https://readwise.io/read) actually innovated a little bit for the first time in over a decade by catering to power users, but I didn't use it often enough to justify a perpetual $10/month subscription (no free tier what so ever).
Nowadays I just use Obsidian's web clipper.