Said
Out of your mouth, a little untidy — the way speech is.
What you said: “um, deploy the fix to coober netties by, uh, friday.”
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Hold ⌥, talk, let go — your words appear at your cursor, in any app. Transcribed on your Mac: nothing uploaded, nothing rented.
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To: Priya Raman
Subject: Friday
Hi Priya, the draft looks great. Can we move the call to Friday so legal has time to read it?
This week
Saturday list: oat milk, lemons, the good bread, and new batteries for the smoke alarm.
What should we work on?
Summarize this thread in three bullet points and flag anything that needs a decision from me.
Listening in the notch. No notch?
or hold this onepress and hold
How it works
The whole trick fits on one key.
Hold , say what you’re thinking, let go — and the words appear right where your cursor is blinking.
Tap ⌥Space, talk, tap again to finish. Changed your mind? esc — nothing’s typed.
that’s the entire manualPick up lemons on the way home.
Hold ⌥ on your keyboard while you read this — it writes in the note.Press and hold the ⌥ above — it writes in the note.
Mouth → cursor
The shortest trip your words will ever take.
Settled
On your Mac, the fillers fall away and your words come out spelled your way.
Mode: Clean UpDictionary: teach it a word once.
What gets written: “Deploy the fix to Kubernetes by Friday.” The fillers are gone and “coober netties” is spelled Kubernetes.
Written
At your cursor — in Mail, Terminal, a chat, a prompt, anywhere you can type.
Clipboard put back — marked so polite clipboard managers skip it.
The same sentence, pasted in one go into Mail, Terminal, a team chat, Notes and an AI prompt.
Your keyboard is the slow part.
Most people type about 45 words a minute and speak about 160 — roughly three and a half times faster. You’ve been practising since you were two.
45words a minute, typed
160words a minute, said3.5×
Typing0:21.3
Can you send me the deck by Thursday? I want one more pass on the pricing slide.
~267 ms a character
Talking0:06.0
Can you send me the deck by Thursday? I want one more pass on the pricing slide. Pasted
one key, held~75 ms a character
Done talking. The keyboard’s still on line one.
Measured in this tab only.
Typical rates, not a promise — your speed and your Mac’s model choice both matter.
A proper homebody.
FreeFlow hears, transcribes and types at home, on your Mac. Your voice never visits a server. Neither do your words.
Go on — switch the Wi-Fi off. Then holdpress and hold ⌥.
Tonight
Staying in tonight. So are my words.
Still typing. It never needed the internet.(you actually did it. nice.)
What one dictation sends
- 0 requests
- 0 bytes up
- 0 bytes down
It asks for exactly two things: your Microphone, so it can hear you, and Accessibility, so it can paste for you.
Every take stays on your Mac — words and audio, searchable.
Keep them forever, or let them go after 90, 30 or 7 days.
Keep takes
- Pick up lemons and the good bread on the way home.2 hours ago
- Reply to Jo: Thursday works, just not before ten.Yesterday
- Chapter three opens in the kitchen, not at the station.5 days ago
- Book the boiler service before the cold comes in.2 weeks ago
- Mum’s birthday: the blue scarf, not the green one.3 weeks ago
- Idea: a podcast about maps nobody uses any more.6 weeks ago
- Ask the landlord about the window latch. Again.2 months ago
- Toast for Sam and Ade: keep it under two minutes.4 months ago
8 takes on this Mac, kept forever.
No audio, no transcript on disk, nothing left on your clipboard.
It goes online for four chores only — models you download, licence activation (re-checked at most every 14 days), a daily update check you can switch off, and feedback you choose to send. None of them sends your recordings or your history. The privacy page lists each one.
Small things we fussed over.
go on — they all workswipe along — they all work- 01HUD
Where it listens.
A pill at the bottom, a panel you can drag, or a bubble under the notch.
Hold ⌥ anywhere and it listens.Press and hold the key — it listens.
- 02Sounds
Six little sounds.
Start and stop cues, from clicky to nearly silent. Tap one.
- 03Dictionary
It learns your words.
Tell it once that “coober netties” means Kubernetes.
- 04Modes
Tidy, or exactly as said.
Each mode has its own model, language and clean-up rules.
Voice to Text writes: Um, so I think, uh, we should ship it. Hmm, on Friday?
Clean Up writes: So I think we should ship it. On Friday?
- Translate to English Whisper models
- Autocapitalise
- Profanity filter
- Apple Intelligence tidy-up macOS 26
- 05Ducking
The room goes quiet.
While you talk, everything else drops to a quarter — you choose how far.
Hold it, or ⌥ — the music ducks.Press and hold — the music ducks.
- 06Read aloud
It reads back, too.
Select text, press Control-Option-S, and a voice on your Mac reads it. English, on-device, an optional 117 MB download.
Hi Priya, the draft reads well. One snag: page four says the offsite is in May, but we booked June.
- Claude Code — a card appears when a session needs you; click, or hold ⌥ and say it (permissions stay click-only)
- Menu bar — no window to babysit; Dock icon optional
- Clipboard — put back how you left it
- Launch at login
Under the hood
Six models, and every one runs on your Mac.
Whisper models cover the most languages and can translate into English as you speak. Bring your own: any WhisperKit model from Hugging Face, or one sitting in a folder. Runs on the Neural Engine, on CPU and GPU, or automatic.
Ratings derived from the Open ASR Leaderboard.
| Model | Size | Speed | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parakeet V3Our pick — 25 European languages, 6.3% word error rate | 484 MB | Speed: 10 out of 10 | Accuracy: 9 out of 10 |
| Parakeet V2 | 465 MB | Speed: 10 out of 10 | Accuracy: 9 out of 10 |
| Cohere Transcribe14 languages, macOS 15 or later | 2.2 GB | Speed: 4 out of 10 | Accuracy: 10 out of 10 |
| Whisper Small | 970 MB | Speed: 7 out of 10 | Accuracy: 6 out of 10 |
| Whisper Large Turbo | 1.6 GB | Speed: 6 out of 10 | Accuracy: 8 out of 10 |
| Whisper Large | 3.1 GB | Speed: 3 out of 10 | Accuracy: 8 out of 10 |
Pricing
$99. Once.
Three Macs. Every update. Nothing renews. Use all of it free for 14 days first — no card, no account.
Dictation apps usually charge around $15 a month. That’s more than $99 by month seven and $360 after two years — and you still don’t own a thing. We’d rather sell you FreeFlow once and keep making it better for free.
Dictation subscriptionbilled monthly · ~$15.00
- Month 01$15.00
- Month 02$15.00
- Month 03$15.00
- Month 04$15.00
- Month 05$15.00
- Month 06$15.00
- Month 07$15.00
- Month 08$15.00
- Month 09$15.00
- Month 10$15.00
- Month 11$15.00
- Month 12$15.00
- Month 13$15.00
- Month 14$15.00
- Month 15$15.00
- Month 16$15.00
- Month 17$15.00
- Month 18$15.00
- Month 19$15.00
- Month 20$15.00
- Month 21$15.00
- Month 22$15.00
- Month 23$15.00
- Month 24$15.00
Running total$360.00
…still printing
FreeFlowpaid once
- Licence · 3 Macs$99.00
- Every update$0.00
Total, forever$99.00
Thank you. That’s the lot.
The subscription line uses $15 a month: what Wispr Flow and Willow Voice charge month to month (checked September 1, 2026). Billed yearly, both are $144 up front — past $99 on day one.
Questions
Asked out loud.
Anything we missed? support@freeflow.audio — a person answers, usually within a day.
Does anything I say leave my Mac?
No. A speech model running on your Mac's own chip turns your voice into text — Parakeet, Whisper or Cohere Transcribe, compiled for Apple Silicon. There's no account and no telemetry, so there's nowhere for it to go. Switch the Wi-Fi off and it keeps working.
What does it need to run?
An Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) on macOS 14 or newer. Intel Macs aren't supported. The optional Apple Intelligence tidy-up needs macOS 26.
Does it ever use the internet?
Only for four chores, and never with your voice: to download a model (Parakeet V3 is 484 MB), to activate your licence (re-checked at most every 14 days — an activated Mac stays licensed offline), for a daily update check you can switch off, and to send feedback when you choose to. The privacy page lists each one.
What's in the free trial?
Everything, for 14 days, with no card and no account. After that, $99 once keeps it on up to three Macs, with every update included. Nothing renews.
Can email and chat sound different?
That's what modes are for. Each mode keeps its own speech model, language, translate-to-English switch, capitalisation, filler-word removal and profanity filter — and on macOS 26 it can tidy the take with Apple Intelligence, on the Mac. Switch modes from the menu bar. Mode files are schema-compatible with superwhisper.
Which apps can it write into?
Any app with a blinking cursor. FreeFlow pastes into whatever's in front, then puts your clipboard back the way it was — and marks the paste so polite clipboard managers skip it.
What will it ask me to allow?
Two things: the microphone, so it can hear you, and Accessibility, so it can paste into your other apps.
How many languages does it speak?
Parakeet V3 handles 25 European languages. Cohere Transcribe covers 14 (macOS 15 or later), and the Whisper models cover the widest range — they can also translate what you say into English as it types.
Will it get my odd words right?
Maybe not the first time. Add them to the dictionary once — names, jargon, product words — and they come out spelled your way from then on.
Does it work with Claude Code?
Yes. Connect it in Settings and a small card appears whenever a Claude Code session needs you. Click an answer, or hold ⌥ and say it. Permission cards stay click-only, on purpose: a misheard word should never run a command.
Ready when you are
Say something worth keeping.
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