Personal
Most people$29
was $49
Yours forever, on 2 Macs. Updates for a year.
Comparison
Flit vs Apple Dictation
The upgrade
Free, built in, and basic
The short answer
Flit is what you move to when Apple Dictation stops being enough. The free one gives you roughly what you said; Flit gives you what you meant to write, with fillers removed, times and emails formatted by fixed rules, tone matched to the app you are in, snippets, a learning dictionary, and a local codebase index. For a text message now and then, the built-in one is fine and you should use it. For writing all day, the cleanup it leaves you is the cost.
Side by side
 Flit
| Apple Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $49 once | Free, built into macOS |
| Where transcription happens | Your Mac | Your Mac, for supported languages |
| Removes fillers and false starts | Yes | No |
| Per-app tone rules | Yes | No |
| Snippets and text expansion | Yes | No |
| Personal dictionary | Yes, with learning | Limited |
| Knows your codebase | Indexes it locally | No |
| Spoken punctuation | About 60 commands | Basic punctuation |
| Translation while dictating | Yes | No |
Compared against Apple Dictation’s own published information. “Not stated” means they do not publish that detail. Prices change, so confirm before you buy.
Why people pick Flit
- It writes finished text rather than a transcript: fillers gone, punctuation fixed, times and emails written properly.
- Per-app tone, so a Slack message and a client email do not come out identical.
- Snippets, a learning dictionary, and more than 60 spoken punctuation commands.
- A local codebase index so spoken file and symbol names are spelled right.
- Dictation in one language written out in another.
In fairness
- It is free and already installed, which is the right answer for occasional dictation.
- Zero setup, zero trust decision, zero new software.
- It is maintained by Apple and will keep working with every macOS release.
- It covers dictation on iPhone and iPad too, which Flit does not.
Listed because they are true. Apple Dictation is free and runs on your Mac for the languages Apple supports locally. The question is only whether formatting, a dictionary, snippets and a different style per app are worth $49 to you.
What actually decides it
The honest case for using the free one
If you dictate a text message now and then, Apple Dictation is the right tool and buying anything would be a waste. The case for a paid app is entirely about volume and finish. When dictation becomes how you write rather than something you occasionally try, the cleanup you do by hand after every free dictation is the cost, and it is bigger than $49 within a week.
What “finished text” actually means
Say "um so can we uh meet at ten thirty am on on friday" to Apple Dictation and you get roughly that back. Flit writes "Can we meet at 10:30 AM on Friday?" The fillers go, the doubled word goes, the time is formatted by a fixed rule rather than a guess, and the tone matches the app you are in. That gap is the product.
The verdict
Choose Flit if
dictation is becoming how you write, and the tidying is the part you want gone.
Join the waitlist7 days free · $29 once, up to 2 Macs · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
Choose Apple Dictation if
you dictate occasionally and do not mind tidying the result.
Questions
Is Apple Dictation private?
On modern Macs it runs locally for supported languages, so it is a reasonable privacy choice. Flit runs on your Mac only, with no cloud path at all, and documents the guarantee with a verification recipe.
Why would I pay for dictation?
Only for volume and finish. If you dictate all day, formatted output, per-app tone, snippets, and a dictionary that learns save more time than the price. If you do not, the free one is correct.
Can I use both?
Yes, they use different shortcuts and do not conflict.
Pricing
One price. Yours forever.
You will buy Flit once and it is yours permanently, on up to 2 Macs, with 12 months of updates. No subscription, no account, no upsell.
Launch pricing
First 100 licenses
Once they are gone, Personal steps to $39, then $49. Lifetime goes to $99.
Lifetime
$79
was $99
Yours forever, on 2 Macs. Every update, forever.
Not on sale yet. These are the prices Flit will launch at. macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon. 7 days free first, no card, and a 30-day refund.
Both include
- Every feature. There is no Pro tier and nothing is held back.
- All 99 languages and every local model, downloadable free.
- Developer mode, snippets, the dictionary that learns, a style per app.
- No account. Flit never asks who you are.
Team
Per Mac$195
$39 per Mac, once, with a year of updates. One key for everyone.
$34 per Mac from 10.
Join the waitlist
More than 50? Let us talk.
How a team license works
- Licensed per Mac. Ten people with one Mac each is 10 Macs. A laptop and a desktop count as 2.
- One key with exactly that many activations. Free a seat yourself when a Mac is replaced.
- Nothing to provision and nothing to audit. No accounts, and nothing leaves any Mac.
12 months of updates, one renewal date for the whole key.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
Questions? The pricing page answers the usual ones. If a future major version is ever a paid upgrade, you will hear it from us before you pay for anything.
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