Comparison

Flit vs Otter.ai

Meeting notes, not typing

The short answer

These tools answer different questions, and Flit is the one for writing. Otter records meetings and produces shared transcripts in its cloud. Flit types what you say into whatever app you are in, on your Mac, and stores nothing. If your problem is remembering what was said in a call, Otter. If your problem is that typing is slower than thinking, Flit, and most people with both problems should own both.

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Side by side

  Flit Otter.ai
Primary job Type what you say, live Record and summarize meetings
Where processing happens Your Mac Cloud
Pricing model $49 once Freemium subscription
Account required No Yes
Types into any app Yes No
Meeting transcripts and summaries No Yes
Multi-speaker labelling No Yes
Team sharing No Yes
Works with no internet Fully No

Compared against Otter.ai’s own published information. “Not stated” means they do not publish that detail. Prices change, so confirm before you buy.

Why people pick Flit

  • It types into any app at your cursor, which is a completely different job.
  • Nothing is recorded, stored, or uploaded.
  • No account and no subscription.
  • It works with no connection.

In fairness

  • It records, transcribes and summarizes meetings. Flit does not record.
  • It separates and labels multiple speakers.
  • Team sharing, search and storage.
  • Browser and phone access.

Listed because they are true. None of them changes the answer if you dictate on a Mac and want your words to stay there.

What actually decides it

Recording a room versus writing a sentence

Meeting tools are built around other people: consent, speaker separation, retention, sharing, search. Dictation is built around one person and one cursor: latency, formatting, and where the text lands. Comparing them on accuracy misses that they are answering different questions. Most people who need both should have both.

The consent difference

Anything that records a conversation involves people who did not install it, which is why meeting tools carry notice and consent features. Flit records only your own voice, only while you hold a key or have explicitly armed it, and deletes the audio immediately unless you asked it to keep history. There is no one else in the room to consider.

The verdict

Choose Flit if

you need your own words to become written text, faster.

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7 days free · $29 once, up to 2 Macs · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon

Choose Otter.ai if

you need a record of conversations with other people.

Questions

Can Flit take meeting notes?

No. Flit transcribes only your own speech into the app you are using. It does not record calls, separate speakers, or summarize. Meeting transcription is not built.

Can Otter be used for dictation?

It can transcribe you talking, but it is not designed to place text at your cursor in another app, which is the whole point of a dictation tool.

Do I need both?

If you attend a lot of meetings and also write a lot, quite possibly. They do not overlap.

Pricing

One price. Yours forever.

You will buy Flit once and it is yours permanently, on up to 2 Macs, with 12 months of updates. No subscription, no account, no upsell.

Launch pricing

First 100 licenses

Once they are gone, Personal steps to $39, then $49. Lifetime goes to $99.

Personal

Most people

$29

was $49

Yours forever, on 2 Macs. Updates for a year.

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Lifetime

$79

was $99

Yours forever, on 2 Macs. Every update, forever.

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Not on sale yet. These are the prices Flit will launch at. macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon. 7 days free first, no card, and a 30-day refund.

Both include

  • Every feature. There is no Pro tier and nothing is held back.
  • All 99 languages and every local model, downloadable free.
  • Developer mode, snippets, the dictionary that learns, a style per app.
  • No account. Flit never asks who you are.

Questions? The pricing page answers the usual ones. If a future major version is ever a paid upgrade, you will hear it from us before you pay for anything.

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