"Why is it sending my voice and screen to the cloud?"
It never leaves your Mac.Your voice and words are never uploaded. Check with any network monitor.
The privacy-first dictation app for Mac
Privacy first. Every word stays on your Mac, and it works with the Wi-Fi off.
Hold fn, ramble the way you normally would, let go. What lands in your app is finished text, not a transcript, about a third of a second later. Your voice is never uploaded. No account, no subscription.
macOS 13+ · Intel and Apple silicon · no account
Press and hold. Let go to watch it clean up.Or hold Space while the key is focused.
Privacy first. Always.
Every other big dictation app records you, uploads it to their servers, and sends text back. Wisp does all of it on your Mac. Your voice and your words are never uploaded, not even to us.
Wi-Fi on. Wisp doesn't care.
Real Reddit comments about switching from typing to voice.
"I will never type ever again."
"I used to think voice-to-text was not for me because I type pretty fast (130+ words per minute). I can't go back to typing."
"I kept losing thoughts faster than I could type them."
"Talking bypasses the inner editor. The drafts are more honest."
"Speaking is 3x my typing speed."
"Most of the time I talk to AI instead of typing prompts."
"What lands on the page is finished text, not a transcript."
"I very rarely use my keyboard to type anymore."
"The tiny goblin in the brain loves its keyboard habits. Sometimes it needs longer than 3 days to evolve."
We went through thousands of Reddit threads from people who quit their dictation app. Then we built Wisp so none of these could happen to you.
"Why is it sending my voice and screen to the cloud?"
"Useless on hotel Wi-Fi."
"Fifteen dollars a month for a model that runs on my own laptop?"
"It keeps cutting off my first few words."
"It crashed and ate a ten-minute ramble."
"My Spotify blasts straight into the mic."
Nobody talks in finished sentences. Wisp writes down what you meant, not every "um" on the way there.
let's meet at 2, actually at 3 tomorrow
Let's meet at 3 tomorrow.
so um I think like, you know, we should ship it
I think we should ship it.
grab milk eggs and uh coffee beans
Grab: • Milk • Eggs • Coffee beans
wait comma really question mark new line no way
Wait, really? No way.
it's twenty five percent off until march third
It's 25% off until March 3rd.
the budget is fine scratch that the budget is tight
The budget is tight.
Select any text, in any app. Hold Control with your dictation key and say what you want. Wisp rewrites it in place, using AI that runs on your Mac. Nothing selected? Ask it to write something new at your cursor. ⌘Z puts it back.
Say one of these
Writes like you, wherever you are Pro
Pick a style for personal chats, work chats, email and everything else. Wisp sees which app you're in and switches on its own.
you said: "hey so I'm running like ten minutes late, start without me and I'll catch up"
Text ready after you let go
Median time from letting go of the key to finished text, measured on real dictations with a warm model.
Wisp hears which language you're speaking and picks the best engine for it. It writes down what you said and never sneaks in a translation.
Switch between Hindi and English mid-sentence, the way you actually talk. Wisp keeps up and writes it the way you'd type it.
you said: "kal ka meeting postpone kar do, I'm not ready yaar"Kal ka meeting postpone kar do, I'm not ready yaar.
Gujarati and English in the same breath, in Gujarati script or in English letters. Your choice.
you said: "aaje office nahi aavu, work from home karish"Aaje office nahi aavu, work from home karish.
Talk your prompt and Wisp presses Enter for you. Prompting by voice gets very fast very quickly.
Long takes are fine. Even ten minutes of talking is ready about a second after you stop.
Fix a name once and Wisp spells it right from then on.
Say "my calendar link" and the whole link appears.
fn, right ⌥, left ⌃, a combo. Hold to talk or tap for hands-free.
Drag the little listening bar anywhere. It docks to any edge of any screen.
See how many words you've spoken, the hours you've saved and your daily streak. Dangerously motivating.
Most local dictation apps only run on Apple silicon. Wisp picks the right engine for your Mac so every machine gets a good experience, and it never freezes the computer while it works.
Same Mac, same microphone input, the same 700+ audio clips played into both apps. We counted every wrong word. Here's where Wisp won.
error rate, lower is better
error rate at low volume
error rate, whispered speech
error rate
error rate
error rate, one real speaker
casual in chats, formal in email, share of cases done right
error rate on one long dictation
How we tested: October 2026, Wisp vs Wispr Flow (Pro) on the same MacBook. English from LibriSpeech, 33 languages from Google's FLEURS set, plus a real Indian-English speaker and the same clips at four volume levels. Score is word error rate: the share of words that came out wrong. Lower is better.
Dictation is free and unlimited, and it always will be. Pro adds the extras for one payment. You own it. No subscription, ever.
Wisp
$0forever
Wisp Pro
$39once, yours to keep
what voice typing costs you
You keep $144 a year. And your words.
FREENo. Your audio, transcripts, history and dictionary stay on your Mac, and Wisp works with the Wi-Fi off. The only exception is a handful of languages that can use Apple's own speech service built into macOS. Wisp labels those "Needs internet" so you always know. Wisp talks to us for only two things: checking a Pro licence, and a daily count like words per day (never words), which you can turn off in Settings.
Dictation is free and unlimited, forever. Cloud apps charge monthly because every word runs on their servers. Wisp runs on your Mac, so it costs us nothing when you talk. Wisp Pro adds voice edit, per-app styles and smarter AI for $39, paid once. Every new install can try Pro free for a month, no card needed.
No. You pay $39 once and it's yours. No renewals, no word limits, no account.
In our side-by-side test against Wispr Flow, Wisp made fewer mistakes on clean English, at every volume from whisper to loud, and in Hindi and Gujarati. The full numbers are in the benchmarks above.
Any Mac on macOS 13 Ventura or later, Intel or Apple silicon. Newer Macs get the biggest models. Older ones get engines picked so dictation stays quick and the Mac never stalls.
If you can type in it, Wisp can type in it: Slack, Mail, Notion, VS Code, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Google Docs in your browser, the terminal, all of them.
Windows is next, then iPhone and Android. Same engine underneath, built natively for each.
Privacy first. Free and unlimited. Every Mac.