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Most people$29
was $49
Yours forever, on 2 Macs. Updates for a year.
Comparison
Flit vs Spokenly
The Mac-first choice
Free, cross-platform, cloud on the upsell
The short answer
If you dictate all day on a Mac, Flit is the better tool: streaming text, per-app tone rules, a local codebase index, and formatting produced by fixed rules rather than a model guess. Spokenly is free and spans four platforms, which makes it a sensible starting point for occasional dictation, and its Local Only Mode is a genuine privacy feature. The trade is depth: covering four platforms means the macOS-specific work does not get done.
Side by side
 Flit
| Spokenly | |
|---|---|---|
| Where transcription happens | Your Mac | Local or cloud, your choice |
| Price | $49 once | Free, or $9.99/mo Pro |
| Account required | No | No |
| Platforms | macOS only | Mac, iOS, Windows, Linux |
| Built for macOS only | Yes | No, four platforms |
| Text appears as you speak | Yes | Not stated |
| Per-app tone rules | Yes | Not stated |
| Knows your codebase | Indexes it locally | Not stated |
| Exact times and commands | Fixed rules | Not stated |
Compared against Spokenly’s own published information. “Not stated” means they do not publish that detail. Prices change, so confirm before you buy.
Why people pick Flit
- Being Mac only means every decision is a macOS decision: the Neural Engine path, the accessibility layer, the notch HUD.
- Text appears while you are still speaking.
- Per-app tone: casual in Messages, professional in Mail, exact words in Terminal, by your own rules.
- It reads your open project so spoken file and symbol names come out spelled correctly.
- One payment. Spokenly is free until you want the managed cloud models, then it is monthly.
In fairness
- It is free for unlimited local transcription, with no trial and no cap.
- Four platforms, so one habit works across your devices.
- An MCP server, so AI coding agents can drive dictation directly.
Listed because they are true. Spokenly lets you choose local or cloud, which is a choice worth having and also a setting somebody can get wrong. Flit does not offer the cloud option, so there is nothing to misconfigure and nothing to check before a sensitive dictation.
What actually decides it
Free is the hardest competitor to argue with
For occasional dictation a good free tool is the right answer, and Spokenly is one. The case for Flit is volume. If you dictate all day, the difference between text arriving as you speak and arriving after you stop, and between formatting that guesses and formatting that cannot drift, is felt hundreds of times a week. That is where $49 stops being a cost and starts being the cheapest hour you buy this year.
Four platforms versus one
Cross-platform is a genuine advantage for a user and a genuine constraint for a developer. Every feature has to work four ways, so the ones that depend on macOS specifics tend not to get built. Flit gave up your phone and your PC to spend everything on one platform. Whether that trade is worth it depends entirely on how many machines you write from.
The verdict
Choose Flit if
you dictate all day on a Mac and want streaming text, per-app tone, and formatting that cannot drift.
Join the waitlist7 days free · $29 once, up to 2 Macs · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
Choose Spokenly if
you want free, or you write on more than a Mac.
Questions
Why pay $49 when Spokenly is free?
For occasional dictation, do not. The paid case is daily volume: streaming text, per-app tone rules, the codebase index, and deterministic formatting are worth real money if dictation is how you write, and worth nothing if you dictate twice a week.
Is Spokenly private?
It offers a Local Only Mode that blocks network requests, and its free tier runs local models. Its paid tier is managed cloud models. Flit has no cloud path to switch on or off.
Does Spokenly stream text as you speak?
Its site does not state this, so we do not claim either way. Flit does, and you can watch it happen in the demo on our homepage.
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.
Lifetime
$79
was $99
Yours forever, on 2 Macs. Every update, forever.
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.
Team
Per Mac$195
$39 per Mac, once, with a year of updates. One key for everyone.
$34 per Mac from 10.
Join the waitlist
More than 50? Let us talk.
How a team license works
- Licensed per Mac. Ten people with one Mac each is 10 Macs. A laptop and a desktop count as 2.
- One key with exactly that many activations. Free a seat yourself when a Mac is replaced.
- Nothing to provision and nothing to audit. No accounts, and nothing leaves any Mac.
12 months of updates, one renewal date for the whole key.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
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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