Trying superwhisper as my Voice Notes App
I’m trying a new voice notes app.
I’ve used Whisper Memos for a while now, and really, truly loved it. But the last four or five notes I’ve tried recording with it were completely lost. No transcript, no recording, no summary.
When I rely so heavily on a tool that becomes this unreliable, it’s time to move on. So after a brief stint with Whisper Transcription, I’ve decided to look at superwhisper.
Better Context Switching
One of my favorite things is that you have different contexts for the AI summary. Whisper Memo summarizes now, but superwhisper allows you to create essentially different projects with a different set of prompts for the output.
And you can change the context post-recording, which is nice. It also has Shortcuts integration, which is a requirement for me. Currently the only action is start and stop recording; I’d really like to see more.
It also has a desktop app, but I’m not sure it will replace MacWhisper for me there.
Main Use Cases
The main use cases for me right now:
- My Shutdown Routine. With this app I no longer need to ship the transcript to Zapier to extract the tasks.
- Joe’s Audio Notes. Again, with the custom prompts and contexts, I don’t need to copy and paste into Claude.
I’m also experimenting with “writing” with it — I’m not convinced on this specific use case yet. For this post I took a long voice note and put it through the context, but didn’t use most of the output. I may just switch it to “give me a long-form writing outline based on this transcript.”
What about you? Are you using a voice notes app? Let me know!