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OpenLess
Hold a hotkey and speak: OpenLess transcribes your voice, polishes it with an AI model and inserts the text at the cursor.
AGPL-3.0 · Downloads from github.com
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- Open-Less
- Verified
- 2026
About OpenLess
OpenLess records while a global hotkey is held, turns the audio into a transcript, rewrites it with a language model in the style you have chosen, and inserts the result into whichever text field has focus, copying it to the clipboard if insertion is blocked. A prompt mode turns loosely spoken instructions into a structured request for chat assistants and coding tools, and switchable style packs hold custom system prompts.
Speech recognition can use a long list of cloud services with your own credentials, Apple Speech, or a bundled local Qwen3-ASR model on macOS, and a personal dictionary keeps names and terms spelled correctly. Version 2 changed the license from MIT to AGPL-3.0-only; GitHub releases provide macOS disk images for Apple Silicon and Intel as well as Windows builds.
Information
- Source code
- Open-Less/openless
- License
- AGPL-3.0-only
- Website
- openless.top
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- AI
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/Open-Less/openless
- github.com/Open-Less/openless/blob/beta/LICENSE
- github.com/Open-Less/openless/releases
- icon.png: OpenLess contributors. AGPL-3.0 repository asset; OpenLess name and logo retained by the project.
License and artwork notices
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