5 alternatives to Handy

cjpais/handy — A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline. (34,704 stars, MIT, ui, voice, ai).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 258 licence-cleared components from cjpais/handy itself.

The alternatives in detail

• koljab/realtimestt
  A robust, efficient, low-latency speech-to-text library with advanced voice activity detection, wake word activation and instant transcription.
  score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 10,207 stars · 72 components · search them
• purple-horizons/openclaw-voice
  🦞 Open-source browser-based voice chat for AI assistants. Self-hosted, private, free. Whisper STT + ElevenLabs TTS. Works with OpenAI, Claude, or custom agents.
  score 6.5/10 · MIT permissive · 126 stars · 11 components · search them
• mitesh77/best-flutter-ui-templates
  completely free for everyone. Its build-in Flutter Dart.
  score 6.5/10 · MIT permissive · 22,838 stars · 51 components · search them · alternatives
• tailwindlabs/headlessui
  Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS.
  score 5.3/10 · MIT permissive · 28,799 stars · 279 components · search them · alternatives
• quentinfuxa/whisperlivekit
  Real-time, local speech-to-text with streaming ASR, speaker diarization, translation, and OpenAI/Deepgram-compatible APIs.
  score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 11,179 stars · 104 components · search them

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