Local Files & Data Locations

MacWhisper (and Whisper Transcription) store application data entirely within your user account on macOS. No system-level files are installed, and all data can be inspected or removed manually if needed.

Application Support (Primary Data)

MacWhisper maintains its main data inside:

~/Library/Application Support/MacWhisper

Whisper Transcription maintains its main data inside a sandbox container at:

~/Library/Containers/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper/Data/Library/Application Support/MacWhisper

This folder includes:

1: Models

(Downloaded speech-to-text models used by the app.)

2: Database

(The internal database containing transcripts, sessions, metadata, and related state.)

3: External Media

Any media files that MacWhisper stores or manages alongside transcripts.

Preferences

App preferences and settings are stored in:

~/Library/Preferences/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper.plist

This includes UI settings, feature toggles, and other user preferences.

For Whisper Transcription, this is:

~/Library/Containers/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper/Data/Library/Preferences

Caches

Temporary and regenerable data is stored in:

~/Library/Caches/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper

For Whisper Transcription, that path is:

/Library/Containers/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper/Data/Library/Caches