Petal for macOS

Petal is a native macOS app for fast, local-first audio transcription in a clean, minimal interface.

Install

1. Download the latest version from the release page.
2. Open the .dmg and move Petal to Applications.
3. Launch Petal and grant microphone/accessibility permissions.

Supported Transcription Models

Provider	Model(s)	Notes
Apple	Apple Speech Transcriber (version varies by macOS)	Built in on supported Macs. No model download required.
Qwen	Qwen3 ASR	Default balanced on-device model.
FluidAudio	Parakeet TDT 0.6B (v3)	Fast local Parakeet transcription via FluidAudio.
Whisper	Whisper Large V3, Whisper Tiny	High-accuracy and lightweight Whisper options via WhisperKit.
Cohere	Cohere Transcribe 2B (q4f16, fp16)	Experimental — #1 on Open ASR Leaderboard. Hybrid CoreML encoder + ONNX decoder. See cohere branch.
Voxtral	Voxtral BF16, Voxtral 8-bit	Fast local transcription with higher-end on-device quality.

Features

• Multiple transcription engines, all in one native app.

• Local-first workflow designed for Apple Silicon Macs.

• Fast transcription workflow with quick copy/paste output.

• Raycast extension

  

Privacy

Petal is designed for local transcription workflows and keeps the experience on-device where possible.