Licenses & Attributions

WhisperType is proprietary software, but it stands on the shoulders of remarkable open-source work. This page acknowledges the projects we build on and reproduces their license notices as required.

WhisperType Application

Copyright © 2026 Atlas L&S LLC. WhisperType is a product of Atlas L&S LLC. All rights reserved. Your use of the WhisperType application is governed by our Terms of Service. The app binary, icon, branding, and website copy are not open source.

Bundled Open-Source Components

whisper.cpp

High-performance C/C++ inference for OpenAI's Whisper model by Georgi Gerganov and contributors. Licensed under the MIT License.

Source: github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

ggml

Tensor library used by whisper.cpp. Licensed under the MIT License.

Source: github.com/ggerganov/ggml

OpenAI Whisper model weights

WhisperType bundles a quantized version of the Whisper speech recognition model published by OpenAI. The model weights are released under the MIT License.

Source: github.com/openai/whisper

MIT License (applies to the components above)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Apple Frameworks

WhisperType uses Apple's Swift, AppKit, AVFoundation, and Metal frameworks under Apple's developer SDK license. These frameworks are not redistributed by us; they ship with macOS.

Fonts and Icons

The marketing website uses Playfair Display and Inter via Google Fonts, both offered under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Brand logos shown in the "Works everywhere you type" marquee are trademarks of their respective owners and are used for nominative, descriptive purposes only; no endorsement is implied.

Questions

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