Hi, I'm watzon. I have been working on this for a while and just realized that I hadn't posted about it on Hacker News yet.

Pindrop is a fully free and open source alternative to paid software like SuperWhisper. Unlike the alternatives like Handy and OpenWhisper, Pindrop is written using SwiftUI which gives native performance on macOS. It's also feature packed and in active development.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to afford an Apple Developer account yet, so the installation story isn't the best, but I'm working on that.