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Most people$29
was $49
Yours forever, on 2 Macs. Updates for a year.
Comparison
Flit vs Snaply
The dictation specialist
Free, local, and does meetings too
The short answer
Flit and Snaply start from the same principles: both run their models on your Mac, both are Mac only, and neither asks for an account. Snaply is free for individuals and does more jobs, adding meeting notes with summaries and action items, which Flit does not attempt. Flit does the one job further: 99 languages against English plus 25 European ones, a local index of your open project so spoken file names come out spelled right, a style rule per app, and more than 60 spoken commands resolved by fixed rule rather than by a model. If you want one free app that covers meetings and writing help, Snaply is a strong answer. If dictation is most of your typing, Flit is the tool built for that alone.
Side by side
 Flit
| Snaply | |
|---|---|---|
| Where transcription happens | Your Mac | Your Mac |
| Price | $49 once, up to 2 Macs | Free for individuals |
| Account required | No | No |
| Platforms | macOS only | macOS only |
| Languages | 99, all local | English and 25+ European |
| Text appears as you speak | Yes | Not stated |
| Style rule per app | Yes | Not stated |
| Knows your codebase | Indexes it locally | Not stated |
| Spoken punctuation commands | About 60, fixed rules | Not stated |
| Meeting notes | No | Yes, with summaries and action items |
Compared against Snaply’s own published information. “Not stated” means they do not publish that detail. Prices change, so confirm before you buy.
Why people pick Flit
- 99 languages against English plus around 25 European ones.
- A local codebase index that repairs misheard file and symbol names against your real project.
- More than 60 spoken punctuation and structure commands, applied by fixed rule rather than by a model.
- A style rule per app, so the same sentence lands casual in Slack and neutral in Mail.
- The transcript streams into the HUD while you are still speaking.
In fairness
- Free for individuals, with every feature unlimited. There is no lower barrier than that.
- Automatic meeting notes with summaries and action items. Flit does not record or attend anything.
- Translation into 100+ languages.
- Named integrations with 30+ apps, including Zoom, Google Meet and Teams.
Listed because they are true. Snaply keeps everything on your Mac and asks for no account, exactly as Flit does, so this was never going to turn on privacy. It turns on breadth against depth: Snaply covers more jobs, Flit takes dictation further.
What actually decides it
Free is a real advantage and we are not going to talk around it
Snaply costs nothing for individuals and states that all features are unlimited. If budget is the constraint, that is the answer and no amount of feature comparison changes it. What $49 buys is depth in one direction: more languages, deterministic commands, a workspace index, and a style that follows the app you are typing into. Whether that is worth paying for depends entirely on how much of your day is dictation.
Meetings and dictation are different products in one app
Snaply records meetings, summarizes them and pulls out action items. Flit records nothing at all and never will: it is live dictation, you hold a key and speak. If meeting notes are on your list, Snaply covers a job Flit does not, and that is worth more than any row in the table above.
What fixed rules buy that a model cannot
Flit resolves spoken punctuation, times and structure commands with deterministic rules, so "1030 AM" is always 10:30 AM and "open paren" is always a bracket. Snaply does not publish how it handles these. The difference shows up in a terminal or a legal note, where the same phrase producing a different character twice is the whole problem.
The verdict
Choose Flit if
dictation is most of your typing and you want it precise: 99 languages, code that spells itself, and commands that cannot drift.
Join the waitlist7 days free · $29 once, up to 2 Macs · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
Choose Snaply if
you want meeting notes and writing help in one free app, or English plus European languages is all you need.
Questions
Snaply is free. Why would I pay $49 for Flit?
Because $49 buys depth: 99 languages, a codebase index that spells your file names correctly, a style rule per app, and more than 60 spoken commands handled by fixed rules rather than guessed at. If you dictate for an hour a day, that pays for itself in the first week.
Do both keep my audio on the Mac?
Yes. Snaply states that voice recordings, text and meetings never leave your Mac, and Flit makes no network request to dictate. Neither requires an account. This is one of the few comparisons here where privacy is not the deciding factor.
Can Flit take meeting notes like Snaply?
No. Flit is live dictation only: hold a key, speak, and text appears at your cursor. It does not record, join meetings, or produce summaries. Snaply does all three.
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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