FREE 100% local AI — no cloud, no subscription, no data ever sent

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State-of-the-art voice-to-text that runs entirely on your Mac. While other tools send every word to the cloud, VoiceFlow keeps everything local. No account. No subscription. No data collection. Ever.

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VoiceFlow REC Hey team, I wanted to follow up on the Q4 roadmap. Can we schedule a sync for Thursday afternoon? I think we need to reprioritize the API migration before the launch deadline. Hold ⌥ Space to record · release to paste ⚡ 340ms total

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On-device — nothing leaves your Mac

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Forever — no subscription, no limits

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Sent to any server, ever

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End-to-end — speak, format, paste

Features

No cloud required.
No corners cut.

Other dictation tools send your voice to remote servers. VoiceFlow was built from scratch in Rust and Swift to prove you don't have to sacrifice privacy for quality.

Hold-to-Record

Hold ⌥ Space anywhere on your Mac to record. Release to transcribe and paste instantly. No app switching, no extra steps.

Zero Data Leaves Your Mac

Every AI model runs on your hardware. Your voice is processed locally and never recorded, stored, or transmitted. Not even anonymized telemetry.

Sub-500ms Pipeline

A Rust-powered pipeline transcribes, formats, and pastes in under half a second. No network round-trips — just raw local speed.

Smart Formatting

A local LLM cleans up grammar, adds punctuation, and removes filler words. Post-processing normalizes numbers ($50,000), percentages (25%), times (3:30 PM), phone numbers, dates, and abbreviations.

App-Aware Context

Detects your frontmost app and adjusts tone automatically. Professional for email, casual for Slack, technical for code editors. Custom prompts per app.

Visual Context (VLM)

A local vision model reads your screen to extract names, project terms, and writing context — so proper nouns are spelled correctly without a cloud lookup.

Learns Your Corrections

Fix a word once and VoiceFlow remembers. It monitors your edits and applies learned corrections to future dictations automatically.

Voice Snippets

Say "my signature" and it expands to your full sign-off. Create unlimited custom trigger phrases that expand into any text you want.

Accuracy

Cloud-grade accuracy, without the cloud

Multiple AI models run in tandem on your Mac: speech-to-text captures every word, a language model formats it, and a vision model reads your screen for context. The same quality you'd expect from a cloud API.

  • Strips filler words, false starts, and verbal corrections
  • Numbers, currency, times, percentages, and phone numbers formatted automatically
  • Vision model reads your screen to spell names and terms correctly
  • Learns from your corrections and improves over time
Raw speech
um so the budget is like fifty thousand dollars and we need it done by january fifteenth uh that's about ninety five percent of what we asked for period
✓ Formatted output
The budget is $50,000 and we need it done by January 15. That's about 95% of what we asked for.
Filler words removed Currency formatted Date normalized Percentage converted Punctuation added
Customizable

Your workflow, your rules

Unlike cloud dictation tools that give you a single mode, VoiceFlow lets you control everything — AI models, visual context, per-app formatting, and more.

  • Toggle visual context (VLM) for screen-aware dictation
  • Swap AI models to balance speed vs. quality
  • Customize formatting prompts per app
  • Create voice snippets, manage corrections, and tune spacing
Formatting Level Moderate
Spacing Mode Context-Aware
Voice Commands
Pause Detection
Visual Context (VLM)
Correction Learning
AI Model Qwen3 1.7B
Comparison

The dictation tool that
doesn't compromise

See how VoiceFlow stacks up against popular cloud-based alternatives.

VoiceFlow Wispr Flow macOS Dictation
Price Free forever $12–15/mo Free (built-in)
Privacy 100% on-device Cloud-processed Partial — sends to Apple
Internet required Never Always For enhanced mode
Smart formatting Local LLM Cloud AI No
App-aware context Email, Slack, code Email, Slack, code No
Voice punctuation Full command set Yes Basic
Voice snippets Yes Yes No
Visual context (VLM) Free — local VLM Pro plan only No
Correction learning Learns from edits Auto-learns No
Number formatting Currency, %, time, dates Yes No
Custom AI models Swap anytime Locked to vendor No
Open-source Fully auditable Closed-source Closed-source
Data collection None Voice sent to cloud Voice sent to Apple

Competitor information based on publicly available documentation as of February 2026.

Start dictating
within minutes

Download VoiceFlow, run the setup wizard, pick your AI models, and you're ready. No account. No API key. No subscription. Free forever.

Download for macOS

Requires macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon or Intel · 8 GB RAM minimum