Tambourine by kstonekuan
Your personal voice interface for any app. Speak naturally and your words appear wherever your cursor is, with fully customizable AI voice dictation. Open source alternative to Wispr Flow.
About Tambourine
From the project's README at github.com/kstonekuan/tambourine-voice. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.
Your personal voice interface for any app. Speak naturally and your words appear wherever your cursor is, powered by customizable AI voice dictation.
Open-source alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Willow.
> Hosted Service Coming Soon! > Join the waitlist to use Tambourine without running the server yourself.
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Health score breakdown
6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.
Adoption signals
Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.
| Signal | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 344 | github.com/kstonekuan/tambourine-voice |
| GitHub forks | 69 | github.com/kstonekuan/tambourine-voice |
Release & maintenance
Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.
| Project age | 0.4 years | since Nov 2025 |
| Last commit | 2 days ago | May 5, 2026 |
| Releases shipped | 1 | last: 4 months ago |
Self-hosting cost across providers
Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.
| Provider | Plan | Specs | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hetzner | CAX11 | 2c · 4GB · 40GB | $4.13 USD | Deploy → |
| vultr | VC2 | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5 USD | Deploy → |
| linode | Nanode 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5.12 USD | Deploy → |
| digitalocean | Basic Regular 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $6 USD | Deploy → |
What people say on Hacker News
Ready to self-host Tambourine?
Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.
Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.
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