Harker
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveLocal, offline dictation for any Mac app, with an optional AI layer for style and grammar cleanup.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $5.75/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Core on-device dictation is free with no limits and no account; Premium (AI style, formatting, grammar and translation) is from $5.75/month with a 7-day free trial and needs an email account.
Use tool ↗About Harker
Harker converts speech to text anywhere on a Mac, triggered by a keyboard shortcut, and runs its base transcription fully on-device using OpenAI's Whisper model rather than sending audio to a server. The free tier has no word cap, no account requirement, and works across any application that accepts text input, in multiple languages. A paid Premium tier adds a cloud AI layer that rewrites dictated text in a chosen style, fixes grammar, reformats it, and translates it, with custom instructions for how the AI should adjust the output. It's built by Ourfires LTD; a Windows version is planned but not yet available.
- Platforms
- macOS
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Home page pricing section (/pricing returns 404): Free $0 forever with all Whisper model tiers, no account, macOS with Windows coming soon; Premium from $5.75/mo with a 7-day free trial (15 October 2026)getharker.com ↗
- Premium features page: from $5.75/mo, AI writing styles, output formatting, grammar fix, translation and custom instructions (15 October 2026)getharker.com ↗
- Terms of Service: provided by Ourfires Ltd, London, United Kingdom; governed by the laws of England and Wales (15 October 2026)getharker.com ↗
Is Harker legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- May 27, 2025 (1 year ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Tucows Domains Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Jan 1, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Ourfires LTD, United KingdomOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Harker
Harker's core pitch — free, unlimited, fully local dictation on Mac — is genuinely free rather than a limited trial, which is unusual in this category. The AI rewriting layer that turns raw dictation into cleaned-up text is what's actually paid, and it requires sending text to the cloud, unlike the base transcription.
Pros
- Base dictation is genuinely free and unlimited, not a capped trial
- Transcription runs fully on-device via Whisper, with no account required to start
- Works globally across any Mac app via a keyboard shortcut, not just a dedicated text box
- Premium's AI layer adds real editing (style, grammar, translation), not just raw text
Cons
- Windows is not yet supported, limiting it to Mac-only users for now
- The AI rewriting features require cloud processing, so the fully-local promise applies only to base transcription
- Company details stop at Ourfires Ltd in London; no founders or team are named on the site
Best for
- Mac users who dictate frequently and want zero per-word or per-minute limits
- Privacy-conscious users who want transcription to stay fully on-device
- Anyone who talks faster than they type and wants that gap closed system-wide, not per-app
Not for
- Windows users — there's no Windows build yet, only a stated coming-soon
- Users wanting the AI rewriting features without any cloud processing at all
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