Wispr Flow
Hold a key, talk, let go. Finished text — filler gone, punctuation already in place — lands straight into whatever you were typing in.
Free to start on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android — 2,000 words a week on desktop, unlimited on Android.
How to read this page. Every fact here is Wispr's own and marked as such; every judgement is ours and marked too. We ran no lab test — the free tier lets you run the only one that counts.
What itactually does
One sentence, before and after
so um Ccan you send Priya the deck from tuesday no sorry from Monday before the standup?
What the vendor says happens to it
- Filler words removed
- Self correction caught
- Replacement inserted
- Punctuation added
Our illustration, not a recording. The sentence is ours; the four behaviours are ones the vendor documents.
The mechanic, in four lines
- Hold a key, speak, release. The text lands at your cursor, in whatever app already had focus.
- It behaves like a keyboard. Nothing to integrate, and the app you write in never knows it exists.
- The clean-up is the product. A cloud model removes the false starts, which is also why there is no offline mode.
- It fixes what you meant, not what it misheard. Wispr says so itself; the personal dictionary closes that gap.
Why that shape matters is the argument of our essay on voice input as an interface.
See Wispr Flow for yourselfFaster thanyour keyboard
Keyboard
45
Words per minute
Wispr's stated typing baseline.
Flow
220
Words per minute
Wispr's stated dictation figure, roughly a comfortable speaking rate.
Both numbers are Wispr's own, and the direction they point in is simply correct. Speaking is faster than typing, and it is not close.
Our judgement: on the date we checked there was no footnote, asterisk or study behind the multiple — and 220 words a minute is a speaking rate, not a rate of finished text.
So do not buy it on the multiple. A week on the free tier, on writing you were doing anyway, produces the only figure that applies to you.
Your own number beats theirs. One week of real email on the free tier tells you what dictation is worth on your writing.
Try Wispr Flow freeWho itis for
Anywhere
you can
already type
Find your own case in one line
- Built for you if you write a lot of medium-length text on a Mac or Windows x64 and can speak out loud where you work.
- Still worth it mostly on a phone: Android is unlimited on the free tier, iPhone is capped at 1,000 words a week.
- Check first on iPad, Linux, Chromebook or Windows on ARM. There is no build for any of them today.
- Look elsewhere if you need to work offline, or if dictation must not leave the EU or the UK. Processing is US only.
Fits
- Long replies you have been putting off.
- First drafts where the thinking is already done.
- Rambling prompts you would rather say than type.
- Notes to yourself, and anything you would happily rewrite.
Keep typing
- Short, precise text with names, numbers or dates in it.
- Code, commands and anything with strict syntax.
- Open offices, trains, anywhere you can be overheard.
- Work under a confidentiality obligation, given where processing happens.
Recognise your writing in the Fits column? Then you already know the answer, and it costs nothing to confirm it.
Try Wispr Flow freeThirty secondsof setup
Two settings ship switched on. Both are documented in Wispr's own help centre, both are one tap, and both are worth a deliberate decision on day one.
Context awareness is what makes the output fit
It sends the text around your cursor, the active application name, on-screen text and a screenshot with each dictation request — and it is what makes a dictated Slack reply read like one. Password fields, numeric fields, the URL bar and banking apps are excluded.
Privacy Mode is one switch, and it is yours
Off is standard for trial and standard accounts, which means audio and transcription data may be used to evaluate, train and improve Wispr's models. On stops that. Audio is kept up to 14 days, in the United States only.
If it has to pass a security review
On the date we checked, the home page read "SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and ISO 27001 certified". The same day, the help centre described a Type II observation period underway with no report issued, and ISO 27001 Stage 2 scheduled.
Our judgement: those two pages do not say the same thing — though a company mid-Type II with a clean Type I behind it is doing the work, not avoiding it. If you are buying this for yourself, none of it touches you.
What we did not do
No lab test, no accuracy benchmark, no traffic inspection. This is a close reading of what the vendor publishes, dated so you can check whether it still holds.
Two switches, thirty seconds. Install it, set both before your first sentence, and dictate the email you were going to type anyway.
Try Wispr Flow freeThe trade
Both columns in full, so that nothing on the left is doing its work by leaving something out on the right.
What you get
- It behaves like a keyboard, so it works in software that has never heard of it.
- The clean-up is the actual product, and it saves you the second pass.
- A free tier generous enough to settle the question on real work.
- A help centre unusually specific about data handling.
- Per-app tone settings, because a Slack reply is not a client email.
What to know going in
- No offline mode, and every word goes to a US server.
- The two most consequential settings are on by default.
- Misheard words read as fluent, which makes them easy to miss.
- Setup asks for Accessibility permission on macOS.
- No iPad, Linux, Chromebook or Windows on ARM build.
- Command mode is paid, experimental and desktop only.
Read the right-hand column and still want it? That is your answer, and the free tier proves it on your own writing.
Try Wispr Flow freeThe price
Free: 2,000 words a week on desktop, 1,000 a week on iPhone, unlimited on Android. Pro: 15 USD per user each month, or 12 USD billed annually.
Our judgement: the money is the smaller question, and it is not close. This costs less than one hour of almost anyone's working time, against a tool used every day in every app they write in.
One thing the free tier cannot show you: Command mode is paid, experimental and desktop only.
Start on the free tier today. 2,000 words a week is enough real writing to know by Friday.
Final take
Get it. If you write a lot and the typing is the slow part, Wispr Flow takes that part of the job away — and the free tier proves it on your own work this week.
The clean-up is the product. Raw dictation has shipped with your operating system for years and almost nobody uses it, because a transcript of a person thinking aloud is not something you can send. Flow hands you the sentence you meant.
The edges, stated plainly: cloud only, United States only, no offline mode, and a misheard word reads as fluent. None of that is a reason not to start — all of it is a reason to start free.
Checked 28 August 2026 against the vendor's public website, pricing page and help centre. Where this page and the vendor disagree, the vendor is current and this page is out of date.
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Every button on this page goes to Wispr Flow’s own site. The price and the free tier are exactly what they would be if you typed the address in yourself — no countdown, no invented deadline, nothing pre-ticked. What is recorded when you click is set out in the privacy policy.
Billing, subscriptions, refunds, cancellations and technical support are Wispr AI’s own, through its help centre. We write about the product; we cannot act on an account.
The free tier answers the question, and it answers it this week. Install it, and dictate the email you were going to type anyway.