Press a key, speak, release. Text appears instantly.
- Stars
- 34.2k
- Growth
- +2.2k
- Launched
- Feb 2025
MITupdated today
R.I.P.Open-source alternatives to Wispr Flow
7 projects replace Wispr Flow, the AI voice dictation. 7 shipped code in the last 30 days.
Wispr Flow is a dictation subscription, and your audio goes to its cloud to be transcribed and cleaned up. That is a problem for anyone dictating client notes, code or medical text. Local speech models such as Whisper and Parakeet now run fast enough on an ordinary laptop that the cloud step is optional.
Handy is the simplest: hold a key, speak, and text appears in whichever app has focus, on Mac, Windows or Linux. VoiceInk is a Mac app with per-app modes and optional AI cleanup. FluidVoice and OpenWispr cover similar ground with different interfaces. Expect to choose a model size yourself, trading speed against accuracy.
7 open-source alternatives
Most-starred first. Stars, growth and activity are live from GitHub.
On-device voice dictation for macOS with adaptive AI
- Stars
- 12.3k
- Growth
- +644
- Launched
- Sep 2025
GPL-3.0updated today
Voice-to-text that works offline, privately, on any app
- Stars
- 9.6k
- Growth
- +1.2k
- Launched
- Jun 2025
MITupdated today
The best open-source alternative to Superwhisper & Wispr Flow. Voice-to-text app for macOS with no subscription
- Stars
- 6.9k
- Growth
- –
- Launched
- Oct 2024
Custom licenseupdated today
Free & fast alternative to Wispr Flow
- Stars
- 2.9k
- Growth
- 12/day
- Launched
- Feb 2026
MITupdated 4d ago
Type 10x faster with AI-powered voice dictation
- Stars
- 1.6k
- Growth
- +28
- Launched
- May 2025
MITupdated 7d ago
Dictate faster and control your Mac with voice
- Stars
- 656
- Growth
- +18
- Launched
- Nov 2025
MITupdated 27d ago
What you give up by leaving Wispr Flow
The honest part. Free and open usually costs something else.
- Less cleanup Wispr Flow rewrites rambling speech into tidy text; local cleanup needs a language model you set up.
- No phone app Wispr Flow works on iPhone, while most open-source dictation tools are desktop only.
- Dictionary stays local Custom words and styles do not sync across devices the way a cloud account does.
- Battery and memory Larger local models use noticeable memory and battery while they run.
