I’m on a free trial with Wispr Flow, and I’m wondering about the improved dictation promised for the 27 OSes. Does anyone have experience with that in the betas? Is WF better enough to justify paying? Thanks!
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I also trialed Wispr Flow and thought it was good, but I couldn’t justify the monthly fee unless (or until) I truly made dictation a part of my daily workflow. Because of that, I am using Google AI Edge Eloquent, which is free and stays runs locally. It is pretty good so far, and I am using the lower-powered model that is available because my macMini lacks the memory for the better model.
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Thanks! I kind of forget to use it on the Mac, my main use case for dictation is with my phone
I’m also wondering about this. I haven’t gotten into the habit of speaking but I feel the right app may be the trigger
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Subjectively, it feels better but not as good as Wispr Flow. It has gotten some things right that have truly surprised me – for example, it got a name right, “Shah”, that wasn’t in my contacts, and I am certain would have been picked up as “Shaw” or similar in iOS 26. But then it continues to make the same old mistakes in other instances – yesterday I had “Series Eight” instead of “Series A” when talking about an investment round, and “a big sh*t” instead of “a big ship” which surprised me that it went with the swear word even though that was wrong.
It’s also nowhere near as good as Wispr Flow in terms of correcting minor rambles, formatting, etc. I still find myself explicitly dictating punctuation when it matters in a way I don’t with Wispr Flow.
All that being said… Really, none of this matters, because they’ve made Wispr Flow so painful to use on iOS that it’s not really an option for me anymore. I hope Apple continues to get better natively and I’m sure they will. This type of thing definitely falls in to the “feature, not a product” bucket for me.
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For those, like me, that are not on the betas and/or don’t want to fork out for paid dictation services, you may find this post to be of interest. Only reposting as it might be handy for those looking to experiment with dictation. Personally, I’m still not sold on it, but my own concoction didn’t cost me anything apart from some time doing the pipework.
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There are a lot of free dictation apps that are as good as WisprFlow. Have you tried any of them? A few options are Spokenly, VoiceInk, and Fluid Voice. The latter two are even open source. Some also let you connect your own LLM, or run completely offline.
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