vibe
Vibe is a desktop transcription app that converts audio and video into text on your device, with tools for subtitles, translation, and recording.
What is vibe?
Vibe is a desktop transcription app for turning audio and video into text locally on your Mac and other supported desktop platforms. It is designed for people who need transcripts, captions, notes, or text exports from recordings without relying on a browser-based workflow. Common uses include transcribing meetings, interviews, lectures, podcasts, voice notes, and imported media files. Vibe supports batch transcription, multiple export formats, subtitle-oriented timing options, microphone input, and system-audio capture for supported workflows. It also includes speaker diarization, translation to English, and options to work with different speech models depending on your needs. Published by Jacob Kolani, Vibe fits best for users who want a native desktop tool focused on speech-to-text work and related transcript export tasks.
Key features
- Transcribe audio and video files directly on your device
- Batch transcribe multiple files in one workflow
- Export transcripts in formats such as SRT, VTT, TXT, HTML, PDF, JSON, and DOCX
- Record and transcribe from your microphone
- Capture and transcribe system audio for supported use cases
- Identify different speakers in a transcript
- Translate transcripts to English
- Adjust timing and caption length for subtitle-focused output
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Vibe is a legitimate transcription utility. Access to the microphone or audio capture is normal for its purpose, and transcripts or recordings you create may remain stored on your Mac until you remove them. If you work with sensitive meetings or interviews, review where your recordings and transcript exports are saved and remove files you no longer need.
Recommendation: Keep Vibe if you use it for transcription, captions, or audio-to-text work. If you do not use it, you can remove it like other user-installed apps; doing so may also remove access to its saved settings, models, and recent transcription data unless you keep those files separately.
Common paths
/Applications/vibe.app
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/github.com.thewh1teagle.vibe
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