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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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 language model cleans up grammar, adds punctuation, removes filler words, and formats numbers, dates, and URLs automatically.

App-Aware Context

Automatically detects whether you're in Slack, email, or a code editor — and adjusts tone, formatting, and even emoji style to match.

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

Two AI models run in tandem on your Mac: one captures every word, another rewrites it as clean, formatted text. The same quality you'd expect from a cloud API — running on your own hardware.

  • Strips filler words, false starts, and verbal corrections
  • Voice-driven punctuation — say "period" or "question mark"
  • Pitch and pause analysis for natural sentence boundaries
  • Auto-formats numbers, dates, URLs, and email addresses
Raw speech
um so I was thinking we should uh move the deadline to like march twenty first because the uh the API migration is taking longer than we expected period
✓ Formatted output
I was thinking we should move the deadline to March 21st because the API migration is taking longer than we expected.
Filler words removed Date formatted Punctuation added Grammar corrected
Customizable

Your workflow, your rules

Unlike cloud dictation tools that give you a single mode, VoiceFlow lets you control everything — formatting level, AI model, punctuation behavior, and more.

  • Minimal, Moderate, or Aggressive formatting presets
  • Swap AI models to balance speed vs. quality
  • Create custom voice snippets that expand on trigger
  • Smart spacing adapts to cursor context automatically
Formatting Level Moderate
Spacing Mode Context-Aware
Voice Commands
Pause Detection
Pitch Analysis
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
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 January 2025.

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.

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

⚠️ Not yet notarized by Apple macOS will block the app on first launch. To open it:
Right-click VoiceFlow.app → Open, or go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.