FREE FOREVER · 100% LOCAL AUDIO · OPEN SOURCE

Speak. It types.
Your voice stays on your Mac.

OpenVoiceFlow is a free push-to-talk voice dictation app for macOS. Hold a key, talk, release — polished text lands in any app.

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Signed & notarized · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · no account, ever
USP 01 · FREE FOREVER
$0

No subscription. No account. MIT open source.

USP 02 · EVERYTHING LOCAL
0 bytes

of audio ever leave your Mac. Airplane mode? Fine.

How it works

01 · Hold ⌘ right
One key, any app.
02 · Speak
Whisper transcribes on-device.
03 · Release
Polished text at your cursor
Full pipeline →
Your voice never leaves your Mac.
Not “encrypted.” Not “anonymized.” Not sent. Audio is transcribed on your Mac and discarded the moment text exists.
Don't take our word for it — read the source.
YOUR MAC — AUDIO NEVER LEAVES THIS BOX
mic→ Whisper→ cleanup→ your cursor
With Ollama or cleanup off, no byte crosses this border at all.

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

Live HUD
See it listening
A waveform tracks your voice while you hold the key.
Profile
Know-Me interview
Learns your name, team, and jargon.
Dictionary
Your words
Teach it the names and jargon it should never misspell.
Context
Per-app style
Casual in Slack, formal in Mail.
Commands
Voice punctuation
“New line”, “comma”, “period” — just say it.
Snippets
Say it, expand it
Voice-triggered text expansion.

Free forever

Wispr Flow is $144 a year for someone else's cloud.

$0
Annual cost
$144
Saved every year
MIT
License
∞
Cleanup models via OpenRouter
OpenVoiceFlow
Wispr Flow
Price
$0, forever
$12/mo — $144/yr
Transcription
On this Mac
Their cloud
Works offline
Yes
No
Audio leaves the machine
Never
Uploaded
Source code
Open — MIT
Closed
Account required
No
Yes
AI cleanup
Your choice
Their pipeline

Competitor details per their published pricing and docs, July 2026.

Pick your backend.

Fully local to ultra-fast API. You decide what runs where.

OpenRouterCLOUD · RECOMMENDED
One key, any modelaudio stays local
One OpenRouter key reaches any model it hosts — the simplest way in. Bring your own key.
OpenAI · Claude · Groq
Your own keyaudio stays local
Prefer a provider directly? Point cleanup at OpenAI, Anthropic, or Groq instead.
OllamaON-DEVICE
$0 / forevernever leaves Mac
Fully offline cleanup with any local model.
OffRAW TRANSCRIPT
$0 / forevernever leaves Mac
Raw on-device transcript, pasted as-is. The default.

All options: audio transcription is always on-device. Only cloud cleanup touches an API — and only if you turn it on.

Up and running in 60 seconds.

1

Download the DMG

Notarized — no Gatekeeper warnings.

2

Drag to Applications

That's it. No installer wizard.

3

Say hello

One ~5-minute setup, then talk. Full guide →

Questions

Really free? What's the catch?

MIT-licensed, no account, no telemetry. Your Mac provides the compute — there is nothing to sell you.

How accurate is it?

Whisper on-device, models from tiny to large. Your personal dictionary fixes names and jargon once, forever.

Does AI cleanup send my text to the cloud?

Cleanup is Off by default, so the raw on-device transcript is pasted as-is. Turn on cleanup and pick OpenRouter (one key, any model), a direct provider — OpenAI, Anthropic, or Groq — with your own key, or local Ollama for fully on-device. Audio never goes anywhere, regardless.

Which Macs?

macOS 14 Sonoma or newer. Apple Silicon flies; Intel works with smaller models.

Where does my data live?

Settings and history stay in Application Support on your Mac, and API keys live in the macOS Keychain. Uninstall the app and remove those to erase every trace.

Start dictating for free.
Right now.

No account. No credit card. No cloud.

Download for Mac — Free Install guide

macOS 14+ · Sonoma → Sequoia · Apple Silicon & Intel