Free, open-source software for Mac by Hacktoolkit. Small tools that work on their own and compose into useful pipelines.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Voice Memo Transcriber | Find Apple Voice Memos by title and transcribe audio locally; export text, subtitles, and JSON. |
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/hacktoolkit/mac-tools.git cd mac-tools/voice-memo-transcriber ./setup-access make install ./transcribe --memo 'Project feedback from Alex' --format all --language en
setup-access opens the macOS permission settings and checks access after you grant it.
Transcription runs on your Mac. The first use downloads a speech model.
Like chrome-extensions, this is a collection of independently maintained tools.
Each tool is a Git submodule with its own implementation, tests, README, Makefile,
and license. Work inside the individual tool repository and open its PR there.
After that PR merges, update the submodule pointer in a separate collection PR.
If you cloned without submodules, run git submodule update --init --recursive.
For a new tool, publish its own repository, then register it here with
git submodule add https://github.com/hacktoolkit/<tool>.git <tool> and add it to
the table above. Pin tools to reviewed commits; do not track a moving branch.
Run make help in the collection or an individual tool. Tests use isolated fixtures
under the holodeck (HOLODECK overrides ~/.holodeck) and never modify your Voice Memos library.
Prefer command-line interfaces, structured output, few dependencies, and explicit access diagnostics.
MIT licensed. Speech model weights and dependencies retain their own licenses.