Scriberr

What is Scriberr?

Scriberr is a self-hosted transcription web app. It runs Whisper, NVIDIA Parakeet or Canary models locally, detects speakers, and lets you summarize or chat with a transcript through Ollama or an OpenAI-compatible API. It has a built-in recorder, notes and highlights, a folder watcher for new files, APIs for automation, and installs as a PWA on desktop or mobile.

Where it fits in a 10–200 person business

• Transcribe meetings, interviews or voice memos on your own server instead of a paid cloud note-taker
• Drop recordings into a watched folder and have them transcribed and summarized automatically
• Feed transcripts into n8n or other tools through the API

These use cases are our editorial suggestions, not claims made by the project.

Can a business use Scriberr? (license)

This is a plain-English summary of the license text, not legal advice. Third-party models you run with it have their own licenses.

Data & compliance: does Scriberr phone home?

Checked against the project's own docs and repository on Oct 27, 2026. "Not documented" means we could not find the answer in official sources; it does not mean the feature is missing or that no data is sent. Third-party services you connect (model APIs, vector databases, search engines) have their own data policies. Compare all apps.

What hardware does Scriberr need?

The project does not publish a minimum CPU/RAM figure, so we leave the official value blank rather than guess.

GPU: Optional. The standard image runs on machines without an NVIDIA GPU; CUDA images cover GTX 10 to RTX 40 series, and RTX 50 (Blackwell) cards need the separate scriberr-cuda-blackwell image.

No official RAM or disk figures are published.

Source: github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr#docker-deployment

How much does it cost to host Scriberr per month?

How to deploy Scriberr

Method: Docker Compose

# docker-compose.yml
services:
  scriberr:
    image: ghcr.io/rishikanthc/scriberr:v1.2.0
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - scriberr_data:/app/data
      - env_data:/app/whisperx-env
    environment:
      - PUID=${PUID:-1000}
      - PGID=${PGID:-1000}
      - APP_ENV=production
    restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
  scriberr_data: {}
  env_data: {}

docker compose up -d

From the official instructions: github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr#docker-deployment. Always check the source for the current version before you run it.

Known gotchas when self-hosting Scriberr

• Secure cookies are on in production. Served over plain HTTP, audio will not load ("Unable to load audio stream") unless you set SECURE_COOKIES=false; the recommended fix is HTTPS behind a reverse proxy. source
• Set PUID/PGID to your host user, or the SQLite database fails with an "out of memory (14)" permissions error. source
• Upgrading from v1.1.0 needs a volume change: app data goes to /app/data and a new, empty /app/whisperx-env; the old whisperx-env folder must be deleted. source
• The README carries a project-status note: development was paused for a while and the maintainer says it is resuming. The latest tagged release is v1.2.0. source

Alternatives in Speech & translation

• whisper.cpp Fast C/C++ port of OpenAI Whisper speech recognition with a small HTTP transcription server.
• PDFMathTranslate PDF translator that keeps the original layout, formulas, charts and tables.
• Meetily Desktop meeting recorder that transcribes and summarizes meetings locally.
• LibreTranslate Self-hosted machine translation API with no dependency on Google or DeepL.
• Speaches OpenAI-compatible speech-to-text and text-to-speech server (faster-whisper, Kokoro, Piper).
• Whisper ASR Webservice Whisper speech-to-text as a REST API in one Docker container.

Sources

• GitHub repository: github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr
• Official documentation: github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr#installation
• License text: github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/blob/main/LICENSE
• Hardware requirements, Deploy instructions: github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr#docker-deployment
• Gotcha 1, Gotcha 2: github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr#troubleshooting
• Gotcha 3: github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr#migrating-from-v110
• Gotcha 4: github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/releases
• Hetzner Cloud pricing (cost estimate): www.hetzner.com/cloud/regular-performance
• GitHub stars, commits and releases: GitHub REST API, fetched Oct 27, 2026