Smart dictation for your Mac: hold a key, talk, and clean writing lands in any app. Pay once — nothing you say ever leaves your Mac.
Same minute, three times the words. You talk, the machine writes, and it reads like you took your time.
Typical figures for sustained typing vs. natural speech.
Cloud dictation records you, uploads the audio to someone's servers, and sends your own words back.
We fine-tuned our own models for exactly one job: turning what people actually say into what they meant to write — fast, reliably, privately, wherever your laptop goes.
| localflowon-device | Wispr Flowcloud | Superwhisperhybrid | Aqua Voicecloud | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $25once, forever | $12+every month | $8.49monthly, or $249 | $10+every month |
| Where your voice is processed | ✓on your Mac | ✕their servers | ~device or cloud | ✕their servers |
| Works with Wi‑Fi off | ✓fully offline | ✕ | ~partly | ✕ |
| Cleanup model | ✓our own, fine-tuned | ~shared cloud API | ~general-purpose | ~shared cloud API |
| Keeps working if the company has a bad day | ✓it lives on your Mac | ✕ | ~partly | ✕ |
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In any app — email, docs, chat, code. Wherever your cursor is, that's where the words go.
Ramble, stumble, change your mind halfway. Don't perform — just talk.
Release the key and polished writing drops in — ums gone, sentences whole, your voice intact.
No subscription, no renewal, no meter running. One payment buys the app, our fine-tuned models, and every update we ever ship.
One license · one Mac
Two licenses · two Macs
Three licenses · three Macs
$17 per seat · one-time · minimum 10 seats. Same lifetime access and lifetime updates on every seat.
EVERY PLAN: ONE-TIME PURCHASE · LIFETIME ACCESS · LIFETIME UPDATES · ALWAYS OUR NEWEST MODELS
No. Listening, transcribing and cleanup all run on your Mac. The only things Localflow ever talks to the internet for are activating your license and downloading models and updates — never your audio, never your text.
Yes. You pay once and the app is yours for good — including future app versions and every new fine-tuned model we release. No subscription hiding behind an asterisk.
Everything we ship: app improvements, new features, and each new generation of our models. When we train a better one, Localflow tells you and downloads it — free.
Our own. We fine-tune models for exactly one job — turning natural speech into finished writing — and every license includes them. When we train a better generation, your copy updates for free.
Any Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer). Localflow runs the models on the Mac's own neural hardware — that's what makes local this fast.
Only twice: to activate your license and to download the models. After that you can turn Wi-Fi off and dictate all day.
The habit is the same: hold a key, talk, release. What changes is where it happens — your audio stops going to the cloud, the monthly bill stops, and the cleanup runs on models trained just for this.
Yes. Your key activates on the number of Macs in your plan, and you can move an activation when you replace a machine.
Download Localflow, hold fn, and say the first thing that comes out. It'll read like you meant it.