Wispr Flow Alternatives

Apps similar to Wispr Flow include Vibe Transcribe, which is free and open source. Other options are FUTO Voice Input, OpenWhispr, Spokenly and SpeakoFlow. You're spoiled for choice with Audio Transcription Tools like Wispr Flow: we list more than 100 alternatives for Mac, Windows, the web, iPhone and Android.

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  1. Whisper AI is a speech to text and voice to text Chrome extension for fast AI voice typing. Convert audio to text, capture transcripts and voice notes, and transcribe with smart cleanup and modes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Google Chrome
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  2. Dictation, live subtitles with translation, and text-to-speech all run locally for privacy, supporting 100 languages for speech, 198 for translation, and 45 for offline use. Dictates and captions in any app with no audio upload, usage limits, ads, or sign-up.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
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  3. Private dictation for Mac: hold a key, speak, and clean, punctuated text is typed at your cursor in almost any app. Runs entirely on-device.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  4. Hold one key, speak, and your words are typed into any app. Fully local, private, push-to-talk dictation for macOS powered by whisper.cpp.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. Sontri icon
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    Sontri is an AI-powered transcription tool built for property inspection and inventory reporting. It converts audio recordings into clean, structured, ready-to-use reports.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  6. Talkative is a free dictation app for Windows that lives in the system tray. Hold a hotkey (Right Ctrl by default), or tap it to start and stop, and speak. When you let go, your words are transcribed, cleaned up and pasted wherever your cursor is: email, chat apps, documents...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. HoldToType turns speech into text at the cursor in any Windows program: hold two keys, speak, let go, and the words land where you were typing. Recognition runs on your own computer with open models, and you are not tied to Whisper: Nemotron 3.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Pithflow is AI voice dictation built Windows-first, for Windows 10 and 11, and since September 2026 for Apple Silicon Macs too. Hold a global hotkey (Ctrl+Space), speak, and release — clean, punctuated text lands in whatever app you have focused: Slack, Gmail, VS Code, Word...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
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  9. Lesskeys icon
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    Lesskeys records, transcribes and dictates on your Mac without sending a single second of audio to a server.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Plainsay icon
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    Open-source Mac dictation: hold a key, speak, release, and Whisper or Parakeet transcribes on your Mac and pastes the text at your cursor.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. FU Flow icon
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    Free offline dictation for Windows and Ubuntu Linux that types what you say into any application, using a Whisper speech model that runs on your own machine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
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  12. Hallig icon
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    Speak and Hallig will write it down. The text is automatically saved to your clipboard. Open the app, it's recording. Tap Done and paste the text wherever required. Hallig doesn't alter your words, it retains the original text. It offers transcription, not interpretation.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
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