Deploying MacWhisper with MDM

If you are planning to distribute MacWhisper across your organisation through MDM you can use our simple info.plist method. If a user has a MacWhisper license file at the following location they will automatically be validated on launch.

~/Library/Application\ Support/MacWhisper/mdmlicense.plist

Here is a complete mdmlicense.plist example file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>licenseKey</key>
    <string>YOUR_LICENSE_KEY_HERE</string>

    <key>allowsRemoteTranslation</key>
    <false/>
    <key>allowsCloudTranscription</key>
    <false/>
    <key>allowsAddingAIServices</key>
    <false/>

    <key>playSoundOnCompleteTranscription</key>
    <false/>
    <key>showSaveConfirmation</key>
    <false/>
    <key>autoCreateWhisperFileAfterTranscription</key>
    <false/>
    <key>shouldShowTranscriptWithSentences</key>
    <false/>
    <key>showTimestampInSegment</key>
    <false/>
    <key>showTimestampMilliseconds</key>
    <false/>
    <key>shouldAlsoSaveVideoToWhisperFile</key>
    <false/>
    <key>enableSpeakerDetection</key>
    <false/>
    <key>removeDuplicatedSegments</key>
    <false/>

    <key>defaultRecordingPath</key>
    <string>~/Downloads/default123</string>

    <key>shouldLaunchOnLogin</key>
    <false/>
</dict>
</plist>

Fields listed in the plist will be hidden from configuration within the app (i.e. the corresponding Settings toggle will not be shown). Setting a field to false disables the feature entirely. Omitting a key makes that feature user-configurable.

The following fields can be adjusted as of version 12.8.

Required*

key	Description	value
licenseKey	The license key associated with your MDM purchase	String

Functionality

allowsCloudTranscription	Allow users to use cloud transcription services such as OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Deepgram	Bool
allowsAddingAIServices	Allow users to setup AI Services	Bool
allowsRemoteTranslation	Allow users to use remote translation services such as DeepL. Does not currently disable use of Apple's Translate API.	Bool

Features

playSoundOnCompleteTranscription	Whether to play a sound when a transcription completes	Bool
showSaveConfirmation	Show a save confirmation alert when closing a transcription that's not been saved yet	Bool
autoCreateWhisperFileAfterTranscription	Automatically save a .whisper file when creating a transcript	Bool
shouldShowTranscriptWithSentences	Show the transcript split up by sentences	Bool
showTimestampInSegment	Show timestamps in the segment view	Bool
showTimestampMilliseconds	Show milliseconds in the segment view	Bool
shouldAlsoSaveVideoToWhisperFile	Save video files to a .whisper file when saving	Bool
enableSpeakerDetection	Enable automatic speaker recognition (with supported models)	Bool
removeDuplicatedSegments	Automatically remove duplicated segments	Bool
defaultRecordingPath	The default path where recordings are saved to. This path will be created if it doesn't already exist. `~` will be resolved to the user's home directory.	String
shouldLaunchOnLogin	Will add MacWhisper to the system Login Items	Bool

If you are interested in deploying MacWhisper in your organisation and you have more questions or features you would want to configure, please reach out to support@macwhisper.com and we'd be happy to see what we can do!