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Most people$29
was $49
Yours forever, on 2 Macs. Updates for a year.
Comparison
Flit vs Wispr Flow
The #1 local alternative
The subscription leader, in the cloud
The short answer
Flit is the local alternative to Wispr Flow: the same instant, formatted dictation on a Mac, without the cloud, the account, or the monthly bill. Flow processes your voice and your screen context on its servers and charges every month, forever. Flit does the same job entirely on your machine, adds a codebase index and formatting that cannot drift, and costs $49 once. If you dictate on a Mac and would rather your words stayed there, Flit is the one to switch to. Flow keeps the edge only if you also dictate on Windows, iPhone, or Android.
Side by side
 Flit
| Wispr Flow | |
|---|---|---|
| Where transcription happens | Your Mac, always | Cloud |
| Price | $49 once | Subscription, monthly |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Platforms | macOS only | Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android |
| Text appears as you speak | Yes | Yes |
| Works with no internet | Fully | No |
| Reads screen context | Locally, in memory only | Yes, for personalization |
| Knows your codebase | Indexes it locally | No |
| Exact times and commands | Fixed rules | Model decides |
Compared against Wispr Flow’s own published information. “Not stated” means they do not publish that detail. Prices change, so confirm before you buy.
Why people pick Flit
- Nothing leaves your Mac. No audio, no text, no screen context. You can verify that with a network monitor.
- One payment instead of a subscription that never ends.
- No account. Flit never asks who you are.
- It works on a plane, in a tunnel, and on the day their service has an outage.
- Times, spoken punctuation, and your dictionary are handled by fixed rules, so they cannot drift.
In fairness
- Four platforms against our one. If you dictate on a phone or a Windows machine, Flit simply cannot help you.
- Your dictionary and snippets sync across your devices, because there is an account holding them.
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
The screen context difference
Both apps use what is on your screen to write better replies. Wispr Flow sends that context to its servers to do it. Flit reads the focused text field locally, keeps it in memory for exactly one dictation, and never writes it anywhere. Same feature, opposite trust model. If you dictate about customers, patients, or unreleased work, that difference is the whole decision.
What a subscription costs over time
Flit is $49 once. A dictation subscription at a typical monthly rate passes that inside a year and keeps going. We are not going to pretend a subscription is never worth it: it buys ongoing model improvements and multi-device sync. But if you want a tool that keeps working at a fixed cost, the maths only points one way.
The verdict
Choose Flit if
your writing should not leave your machine, or you would rather pay once.
Join the waitlist7 days free · $29 once, up to 2 Macs · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
Choose Wispr Flow if
you dictate on more than a Mac, or you want a dictionary that follows you between devices.
Questions
Can I switch from Wispr Flow without changing how I work?
On a Mac, yes: both put finished text at your cursor from a keypress, in any app. The differences are where transcription happens, whether there is an account, and how you pay. On iPhone, Windows, or Android, Flit is not an option at all.
Does Wispr Flow work offline?
No. It processes in the cloud, so it needs a connection. Flit runs its models on your Mac and works with wifi turned off.
Which is faster?
Both show text as you speak, and both state 4x faster than typing, but the numbers underneath differ. Flow pairs benchmark rates: 220 words per minute of speech against 45 for a keyboard. Flit pairs measured ones: 124 words per minute across 500+ real dictations, including pauses and thinking, against about 31 for composition typing. Ours is a floor rather than a ceiling. Industry speaking benchmarks run well above 124, so a fast native English speaker should expect to beat our own figure.
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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