nchova vs Superwhisper
A Superwhisper alternative, for your meetings too.
Superwhisper and nchova both put a speech model on your Mac, and both type where your cursor is. The difference is what happens around a call: nchova notices it and offers to transcribe, follows your calendar, hears both sides even on the free plan, and writes the notes when you hang up. And Pro costs €29.99 once.
In short
- Dictation, both
- Superwhisper runs local models or cloud ones, mode by mode; nchova runs on the Mac only.
- Meetings, by itself
- Superwhisper has a meeting mode you start; nchova notices the call, reads your calendar and writes the notes by itself. With Pro it names the voices too.
- Once
- Superwhisper Pro is $84.99 a year, or $249.99 for life. nchova Pro is €29.99, once.
The call starts. nchova asks.
As soon as Zoom, Meet, Teams or Slack takes the microphone, nchova offers to transcribe; with your calendar, it names the meeting after the event. Superwhisper’s docs describe a meeting mode that you start yourself.
Side by side
| Superwhisper | nchova | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it transcribes | On the Mac with local models, or in the cloud (its own S1, or Deepgram’s and ElevenLabs’ models), chosen mode by mode | On your Mac, always |
| Free plan | Local Whisper models, two modes with no AI processing | Dictation, meetings and notes with Apple’s models |
| Meetings | A meeting mode you start; the other side of the call needs Pro | Notices the call, asks, follows your calendar |
| Who is speaking | Speaker separation (Pro), not used in the AI summaries | Voice 1, Voice 2…, named from the invitees by voice (Pro) |
| Notes | From an AI mode, local or in the cloud | Written when the call ends, around your own notes |
| AI assistants (MCP) | Local server for your dictation history (macOS) | Local server for your meetings; never your dictation |
| Languages | 100+, depending on the model | 29, 10 of them free; up to three at once, switching mid-sentence |
| Rewriting | AI modes that format and rewrite what you said | Writes what you said; the cleanup can only take words out |
| Paid plan | Pro: $8.49 a month, $84.99 a year, or $249.99 for life | Pro: €29.99 once, up to 3 Macs |
| Runs on | Mac (also Intel), Windows, iPhone, Android | Mac, with Apple silicon and macOS 26 |
Three years of each
Superwhisper Pro at its US prices, yearly, monthly or for life, next to nchova Pro.
It knows who is speaking
With Pro, nchova tells the other voices apart as they speak and names the ones it has heard before, among the people invited. The names end up in the transcript, in the notes and in what your assistant reads.
voices.json · on this Mac only
When Superwhisper is the better choice
If you dictate on Windows, an iPhone or Android, or on an Intel Mac, Superwhisper covers them, with one licence. nchova needs a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26.
If you want your words rewritten as you dictate, in an email’s tone or a note’s shape, Superwhisper’s AI modes do that, and it transcribes audio and video files too. nchova writes what you said and transcribes what you hear live.
If your days are made of calls, nchova does the part around them by itself: it notices the call, knows who was invited and writes the notes when you hang up; with Pro, it names the voices too.
Questions, out loud
- 00:00:04 You Does nchova use Parakeet too?
- 00:00:09 nchova Yes: with Pro, NVIDIA’s Parakeet runs on your Mac in 25 European languages. Without Pro, Apple’s speech model does the work, in 10 languages.
- 00:00:27 You Does nchova work offline?
- 00:00:32 nchova Yes: dictation, meetings and the notes written on the Mac work without a connection. The internet is needed to download the models the first time, to activate Pro and for updates. See offline dictation.
- 00:00:50 You Can I try it before paying?
- 00:00:55 nchova Thirty days with everything, no card and no account. After that it stays free with Apple’s models.
- 00:01:13 You Is there a lifetime licence?
- 00:01:18 nchova Pro is lifetime: €29.99 once, for up to 3 Macs, with every update included for as long as nchova gets updates.
Checked on 8 October 2026: Superwhisper plans · Voice models · Choosing a model · Built-in modes · Speaker-separated meetings · CLI and MCP server · Introduction