Wispr Flow alternative
The Wispr Flow alternative that never leaves your Mac.
Wispr Flow is a polished dictation app that sends your speech to the cloud and charges monthly. ZenVoice does the same job on your Mac: you talk, clean text lands in any app, and nothing is uploaded. You pay once.
Free for 14 days, no card
ZenVoice and Wispr Flow, side by side.
- Where your speech is processed
- ZenVoiceOn your Mac
- Wispr FlowIn the cloud
- Works with no internet
- ZenVoiceYes
- Wispr FlowNo
- Account needed
- ZenVoiceNo
- Wispr FlowYes
- Price
- ZenVoice$14.99 once for 2 Macs (launch price, first 100), then $39.99
- Wispr FlowFree up to 2,000 words a week, then $15 a month ($12 a month billed yearly)
- Free trial
- ZenVoice14 days, every feature, no card
- Wispr FlowFree plan, 2,000 words a week
- Refund window
- ZenVoice30 days
- Wispr FlowNot stated (monthly, cancel any time)
- Platforms
- ZenVoiceMac (Apple silicon or Intel, macOS 15 or later); Windows in the works
- Wispr FlowMac, Windows, iPhone, Android
- Languages
- ZenVoice99 with Whisper, 25 with Parakeet V3, plus Hinglish
- Wispr Flow100+, detected automatically
Wispr Flow facts are from wisprflow.ai, Pricing, Privacy, checked October 2, 2026. “Not stated” means their site doesn’t say. Spot something out of date? Tell us.
Pick ZenVoice if
- Your voice and words stay on your Mac: no account, no server, no word limit.
- It works with the Wi-Fi off.
- You pay once instead of every month.
- Numbers, times and money are written by fixed rules, not a model's guess.
Pick Wispr Flow if
- You also dictate on your phone or on Windows.
- Your company needs a vendor with SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 paperwork.
- You want its AI meeting notetaker.
Common questions.
Is ZenVoice as accurate as Wispr Flow?
We publish our speech engine benchmarks on the Benchmarks page; Parakeet V3, the default, has a 6.9% word error rate on spontaneous speech. Try both on your own voice: ZenVoice is free for 14 days.
Can I move from Wispr Flow?
Yes. Install ZenVoice, set your shortcut, and add the names from your Wispr dictionary to ZenVoice's Dictionary.
Does ZenVoice work on iPhone?
No. ZenVoice is for the Mac, with Windows in the works. There's no iPhone version planned.
Try it free. Then pay once.
Pro
Everything ZenVoice does today, on two Macs, with a year of new features.
Upgrade to Lifetime any time for the difference: $25.00 at launch prices.
- 2 Macs
- All 14 models and every language
- Runs offline. Nothing leaves your Mac
- 1 year of new features and new models
- Bug fixes, UI fixes and macOS compatibility forever
Or try it free for 14 days · 30-day refund
Lifetime
RecommendedEvery update we ever ship, including new features and new models.
Every update we ever ship, for one payment.
- 2 Macs
- All 14 models and every language
- Runs offline. Nothing leaves your Mac
- Every new feature and new model, forever
- Bug fixes, UI fixes and macOS compatibility forever
Or try it free for 14 days · 30-day refund