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Requirements

  • macOS (Apple Silicon or Intel)
  • A Coddo account — used for transcription quota
  • Microphone access and Accessibility access (Whisper Island will prompt you on first launch)
Whisper Island is macOS only for the moment. If you’re on Windows or Linux, use Coddo’s built-in voice dictation instead.

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Download

Download Whisper Island

Get the latest .dmg from coddo.ai/whisper-island.
  1. Open the .dmg file
  2. Drag Whisper Island into your Applications folder
  3. Open Whisper Island from Applications

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Grant permissions

On first launch, macOS will ask for two permissions. Both are required.

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Microphone

Whisper Island uses your default audio input to capture what you say. macOS shows the standard microphone prompt the first time you record. If you decline, re-enable it from System Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone.

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Accessibility

Pasting text into other apps requires Accessibility access — Whisper Island simulates Cmd+V to inject the transcript. macOS shows the Accessibility prompt automatically. If you skipped it, enable Whisper Island in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.
Without Accessibility access, transcription succeeds but the text isn’t pasted into the active app.

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Sign in

After permissions, sign in with your Coddo account. The login opens in your browser and comes back to the app via a deep link (coddo://). Your session is stored locally and encrypted with a machine-derived key — moving the file to another Mac will not work, you’d sign in again. If you don’t have a Coddo account yet, you can create one for free during this step.

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Updates

Whisper Island checks for updates automatically. When an update is downloaded, the tray menu shows Install update (vX.Y.Z) — click it to restart and apply the new version. A short What’s New screen opens once on first launch after a version bump.